CUET SYLLABUS FOR GEOGRAPHY

Unit I:

Human Geography: 

Nature and Scope 

Unit II:

People

• Population of the world – distribution, density and growth; 

• Population change-spatial patterns and structure; determinants of population change; 

• Age-sex ratio; rural-urban composition; 

• Human development – concept; selected indicators, international comparisons.

Unit III:

Human Activities

• Primary activities – concept and changing trends; gathering, pastoral, mining, subsistence agriculture, modern agriculture; people engaged in agriculture and allied activities – some examples from selected countries; 

• Secondary activities – concept; manufacturing: agro-processing, household, small scale, large scale; people engaged in secondary activities – some examples from selected countries; 

• Tertiary activities – concept; trade, transport and communication; services; people engaged in tertiary activities – some examples from selected countries; 

• Quaternary activities – concept; knowledge based industries; people engaged in quaternary activities – some examples from selected countries.

 Unit IV:

Transport, Communication and Trade

• Land transport – roads, railways – rail network; trans-continental railways; 

• Water transport- inland waterways; major ocean routes; 

• Air transport – Intercontinental air routes; 

• Oil and gas pipelines; 

• Satellite communication and cyberspace; 

• International trade – Basis and changing patterns; ports as gateways of international trade, role of WTO in International trade.

Unit V:

Human Settlements

• Settlement types – rural and urban; morphology of cities (case study); distribution of megacities; problems of human settlements in developing countries.

UnitI:

People

• Migration: international, national – causes and consequences; 

• Human development – selected indicators and regional patterns; 

• Population, environment and development.

Unit II:

Human Settlements 

• Rural settlements – types and distribution; 

• Urban settlements – types, distribution and functional classification.

Unit III:

Resources and Development

• Land resources – general land use; agricultural land use – major crops; agricultural development and problems, common property resources; • Water resources – availability and utilization – irrigation, domestic, industrial and other uses; scarcity of water and conservation methods – rain water harvesting and watershed management (one case study related with participatory watershed management to be introduced) ; 

• Mineral and energy resources – metallic and non-metallic minerals and their distribution; conventional and non-conventional energy sources; 

• Industries – types and distribution; industrial location and clustering; changing pattern of selected industries – iron and steel, cotton textiles, sugar, petrochemicals, and knowledge based industries; impact of liberalization, privatization and globalization on industrial location; 

• Planning in India – target area planning (case study); idea of sustainable development(case study). 

Unit IV:

Transport, Communication and International Trade

• Transport and communication — roads, railways, waterways and airways; oil and gas pipelines; national electric grids; communication networkings – radio, television, satellite and internet; 

• International trade — changing pattern of India’s foreign trade; sea ports and their hinterland and airports

Unit V:

Geographical Perspective on Selected Issues and Problems

• Environmental pollution; urban-waste disposal; 

• Urbanization-rural-urban migration; problem of slums; • Land Degradation.