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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to introduce to components of lifetime fitness and wellness. Fitness components include assessment in the following areas: cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition. Individual testing will be performed in each area. Students wll desigh a personalized fitness plan based on results of testing. Wellness components will cover nutrition, cardiovascular disease and cancer prevention, stress management, and substance abuse. Thses components will be taught through lecture, self assessment, and professional speakers. Credits: 3 Offered Semester II Prerequisite: None
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2.00 Credits
This 8 week course covers fundamentals of rock climbing. Students will work on the indoor climbing wall and outdoor cliffs learning belaying techniques, construction of anchor and safety systems, and movement skills. Students will participate in two single day climbing trips to be held on Saturdays or Sundays, scheduled in appropriate weather and at an appropriate time within the course structure. Credits: 2 Offered Semester I Prerequisite: None
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2.00 Credits
There willbe both a canoe tripping and a backpacking section to this course. Each section will have its own trip. Students will analyze the basic wilderness skills that are common to these activities (nutrition and food concerns, equipment selection and use, hazards, Leave No Trace skills, group management skills and trip-planning) as well as those skills and techniques unique to each activity (load carrying and movement on steep terrain etc. in backpacking and paddling skills, etc. in canoe tripping). Credits: 2 Offered Semester I Prerequisite: Concurrent OBWS Enrollment
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2.00 Credits
This 8 week course is an introduction to cross country skiing and to basic winter hazards and survival. Special emphasis is on general preparedness for a winter environment. Topics include clothing and equipment, flat track techniques, techniques for skiing uphill and downhill, hypothermia and frostbite, avalanche, emergency shelters, and group safety awareness. This course is a combination of classroom and field experiences that will take place on three weekend days during the semester. Credits: 2 Offered Semester II Prerequisite: None
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1.00 Credits
This 4 week course is an introduction to sea kayaking. Students will learn the basics of equipment, proper packing techniques, strokes, and ocean navigation in a flat water setting. Upon demonstration of adequate skills, the course will move to the ocean where students will spend a two day weekend sea kayaking. Credits: 1 Offered Semester I Prerequisite: None Fee $150.00
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course offers alternative skills based educational experiences for students interested in adventure education. Topics proposed will be deemed to be of special interest to students. Potential topics include caving, sailing, mountain biking, winter camping or survival, canoe instructor certification, ice climbing, river or rock rescue, and trail construction. The course may be 1 to 3 credits depending on the topic. Depending on qualifications, topics could be taught by student leaders. Credits: 1-3 Offered by arrangement Prerequisite: None
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to engage students in the breadth, depth, and scope of outdoor recreation and adventure education. Potential topics include the history and philosophy of adventure education/outdoor recreation; components of leadership; skills, competencies, and qualifications of the outdoor recreation professional; the basics trip planning; professional organizations. Includes a weekend field trip led by students from the Leadership class. May include other field trips. Credits: 3 Offered Semester II Prerequisites: None
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to acquaint students with developmental disabilities. Students will learn characteristics of specific disabilities and appropriate activities and procedure for including all populations in outdoor adventure activities. The class will include historical, theoretical and philosophical perspectives concerning the inclusion of all populations in all aspects of society. In lab sessions, students will work with people with disabilities in an outdoor education and recreation setting. Credits: 3 Offered Semester II Prerequisite: None
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2.00 Credits
This 7 week course covers the skills necessary for canoeing on whitewater. Topics include equipment, clothing selection, safety factors, strokes, river reading, self-rescue and basic rescue, and group management. The course also includes a weekend whitewater canoeing field trip. Credits: 2 Offered Semester I Prerequisite: None
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course offers alternative skills based educational experiences for students interested in adventure education. Topics proposed will be of special interest to students. Potential topics include caving, sailing, mountain biking, winter camping or survival, canoe instructor certification, river or rock rescue, Leave No Trace (LNT) certification, or trail construction. This course may be 1 to 3 credits. Depending on qualifications, topics could be taught by student leaders. Credits: 1-3 Offered by arrangement Prerequisite: None
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