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4.00 Credits
A menu course in backcountry skills that develops students' expertise and knowledge of specific skill related to wilderness recreation. Students will also gain the ability to plan, prepare for, and undertake short recreational trips in the backcountry of Alaska and elsewhere. For water courses students must be competent swimmers. Prerequisite OS11000 or instructor permission. Lab fee required, plus personal food, equipment, and transportation costs. (Topic course number range from OS 21101 to OS 21110 in schedule) Selected Topics: Packrafting Swiftwater Traditional Climbing
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2.00 Credits
A field-oriented course designed to prepare students to plan and conduct safe backcountry skiing trips. Topics include alpine touring/ telemark skiing techniques, map reading and route finding skills, and avalanche evaluation and rescue techniques. The course meets weekly to tour outside Anchorage area culminating on a week-long intensive over spring break. Lab fee required. Prerequisites: OS 11200, OS 21000.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines recreation in the context of culture and environment. Students will explore the dynamic relationship between how we recreate, where we recreate, and who our recreation impacts. In addition to mastering the skills associated with a particular form of recreation, students might study the local language, or interpret the area's cultural history, or compile a list of the region's flora and fauna.Lab fee required, plus personal food, equipment, and transportation costs. Prerequisites: OS 11400 and instructor permission. Sport Climbing
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to the technical skills required for both improvised and organized rescues on steep terrain. The curriculum includes static and dynamic loads, technical rope skills, the tandem prusik belay, pulley systems, highlines, and assorted single and double rope rescue methods. Prerequisite: OS 11400.
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2.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to search history, management, planning, strategy, and tactics for finding lost or injured persons in forest and alpine environments as well as in caves and avalanches.
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4.00 Credits
A field course for college students and professionals interested in applied field research techniques. Students in this course travel by nonmotorized methods such as sea kayaking while applying research techniques used in measuring human impacts on remote ecosystems. Course content includes temperate ecosystems; human use and management; and field research techniques including water sampling and radial transects. Class project will include entering and analyzing data. Wilderness living, sea kayaking, and database skills are necessary, instructor approval required. Lab fee required.
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4.00 Credits
This course is a survey of the scientific principles, methodologies and research as applied to exercise and physical performance. The emphasis is on physiological responses and adaptations to acute and chronic physical exercise.
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4.00 Credits
Expedition Leadership introduces students to the process of leading wilderness expeditions. Students will assist in planning, organizing, leading, and evaluating a twenty-one day expedition. Lab fee required, plus personal food, equipment, and transportation costs. Prerequisite: OS 11000 or instructor permission.
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4.00 Credits
This class is an extended Alaskan mountaineering expedition. Topics include glacier travel, winter camping, snow and ice climbing, ski mountaineering, route finding, risk management, decision making, and hazard evaluation. Lab fee required, plus personal food, equipment, and transportation costs. Prerequisites: OS 11400, OS 11200 and instructor permission.
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4.00 Credits
A two-to three-week sea kayaking expedition in the coastal environment. In addition to practicing the skills of safe sea kayaking, students will help organize and lead the trip. Topics include advanced strokes, bracing, rescues in rough water, secondary stability, boat/ paddle selection, trip planning, minimum impact camping, and hazard evaluation. Lab fee required, plus personal food, equipment, and transportation costs. Prerequisites: OS11000 and OS11300 or instructor permission.
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