Thats cool. I think most of the criticism was around dumbing it all down, but it doesnt sound as bad as people say.
AP Human Geography is the full course name. We just have abbreviations when we talk about AP's. For example APUSH is AP US History, AP Lit is AP English Literature, Euro is AP European History, AP Gov is AP Government, etc. Basically just slang for AP courses lol. I'm sure everyone else probably does stuff like that too.
But AP human is basically how humans adapted to different environments and why. For example, it explain the AIDS belt in Africa, which was the result of mountains. A highway had to be built between the mountains ("belt") and because of the highway, men worked farther and farther from home and used prostitutes more because they were away from their wives.
Geo does have a little algebra 1 in it, but I agree with you. It would be much better! But i do think geo should go before college algebra because we use some of the skills from geo in it.