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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
This course provides skill, instruction, and experience related to the use of map and compass for off-trail wilderness navigation and problem solving. Navigation techniques will be taught and advanced through practical application. This course concludes with a weekend trip.
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1.00 Credits
This course provides skill, instruction, and experience related to numerous outdoor activities. Activities may include any or all of the following: canoeing, kayaking, orienteering, rock climbing, adventure ropes course, hiking, camping, natures edibles, and/or outdoor cooking. Students are exposed to a variety of skills so they have the opportunity to pursue interests beyond this course and throughout their lives. This course concludes with a weekend trip.
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2.00 Credits
This course is designed to prepare the student enrolled in the Outdoor Education Program for an extended outdoor trip. Special attention will be paid to water purification, hypothermia, wilderness etiquette, and the principles of minimal impact camping. The course culminates with a camping trip in the wilderness.
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1.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the outdoor leisure sport of hiking. Students will have the opportunity to explore a number of different parks and experience recreational hiking, either in groups or solo. Instruction includes hiking basics, first aid on the trail, trail navigation, and preparation for a days hiking experience.
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1.00 Credits
The focus of yoga will be on the physical dimension. We will stress exercise, movements, and poses which will enhance overall mobility, flexibility, balance, and muscle training. Yoga will train used, underused, and opposing muscles which may improve one's physical quality of life. Yoga instruction will introduce the mental aspect as well. We will begin to develop, practice, and train the relationship between mind and body in order to improve the body's mental and physical communication. This course can be repeated for credit.
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1.00 Credits
This course is designed for the beginner in both kayaking and canoeing. Students will learn how to get in and out of the kayak, wet entry, basic paddling strokes, and safety on the water for flat water kayaking. The canoeing portion covers safety, and proper steering paddling techniques. The course also includes a half day canoe trip and a half day kayak lake tour for skill application.
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1.00 Credits
This course provides instruction and practice in a physical fitness program which involves a series of vigorous stepping movements. Music is utilized with a combination of a stepping apparatus and an extensive upper body workout to raise the heart rate to within the exercise heart rate zone. This course may be repeated for credit. Good general health is recommended.
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1.00 Credits
Zumba is a Latin inspired, dance-fitness class that incorporates Latin and international music and dance movements, creating a dynamic, exciting, and effective fitness system. The class combines fast and slow rhythms that tone and sculpt the body using an aerobic/fitness approach to achieve a unique blended balance of cardio and muscle-toning benefits. This course is repeatable for credit.
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1.00 Credits
The yoga core class focuses on core stability and strength. Yoga postures that emphasize core strength will be focused on. The use of medicine balls, stability balls and bosu balls will be used to isolate the basic muscles of the core/torso/back.
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1.00 Credits
This class is a total body strengthening workout. It challenges all of your major muscle groups by using handheld weights. You will perform exercises that target all of your major muscle groups: squats, presses, lifts and curls. This course is in a group exercise format where music is used to motivate and push you to a high level of intensity. High intensity interval training will be used which increases body fat utilization for energy.
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