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2.00 Credits
This course is designed to enable you to enjoy winter in the mountains safely and comfortably. Snow travel may be either by skiing or snowboarding. Winter mountain skills taught include cold injuries, dressing for winter, avalanche awareness, and snow shelters. Skills will be practiced both in the backcountry and a base camp or other accommodations. Traveling with a pack will be required. This course may be repeated with a different skill set or in a different location. (1-5 lect.)
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1.00 Credits
This is a base camp course that includes some backcountry travel, emphasizing leadership and teamwork. Outdoor skills learned in this course include map reading, navigation, hiking and low-impact camping. Climbing skills include belaying, knots, rope handling, signals, top-roping and rappelling, climbing ethics, protection placement, anchor building and climb leading. While this course will focus on outdoor skills, expedition behavior will be part of the course curriculum. Students will learn to live and work closely with their course mates. Tolerance for adversity and uncertainty, respect for others and the environment, and a willingness to work hard will be critical to success. Students should expect ongoing verbal coaching and feedback throughout the course, as well as verbal performance summaries at the end of each section. There will also be opportunities for interpreting and understanding the natural environment. This is a demanding and fast-paced course. This course may be repeated once with a different skill set or in a different location. (1-5 lect.)
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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
This is a small group travel-based course, emphasizing leadership and teamwork. Various offerings of this course include water sections emphasizing different skills, such as kayaking, canoeing, sailing or rafting. While this course will focus on outdoor skills, expedition behavior will be part of the course curriculum. Students will learn to live and work closely with their classmates. Tolerance for adversity and uncertainty, respect for others and the environment, and a willingness to work hard will be critical to success. Students should expect ongoing verbal coaching and feedback throughout the course, as well as verbal performance summaries at the end of each section. There will also be opportunities for interpreting and understanding the natural environment. This is a demanding and fast-paced course. This course may be repeated once with a different skill set or in a different location. (1-5 lect.)
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1.00 Credits
This course if offered in conjunction with the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). This course involves immersion in the geography and culture of the area in which the course is held. Class work in physical and cultural geography will provide students with information that is easily integrated with the environmental ethics of land management and low impact camping. This course is part of the NOLS semester and must be taken concurrently with EDUC 2050 and BIOL 2045. On certain semesters it is also taken concurrently with HLED 2010. NOLS semesters are taught experientially, so climate, season, terrain, participants, specific course selection, and other factors generally support some outcomes more than others. (1-5 lect.)
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2.00 Credits
The Avalanche Level 2 course provides backcountry leaders the opportunity to advance their avalanche knowledge and decision making skills. The Level 2 builds from the introductory avalanche hazard management model introduced in the Level 1 course, and adds the evaluation of factors critical to snow stability analysis. Students will spend a mix of their time in a classroom and outdoors in the snow. This course is taught in partnership with the American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education (AIARE) and successful students will receive a certificate of completion for the AIARE Level 2 Avalanche Training. Prerequisites: G&R 1090, Avalanche Level 1: Decision Making in Avalanche Terrain. (1 lect, 2 lab.)
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1.00 Credits
No course description available.
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4.00 Credits
This course provides a systematic exploration of patterns and processes of the Earth's physical geographic environment, including the atmosphere, climate, hydrological cycle, tectonics, landforms, soils, ecosystem dynamics, and the influence of humans on these systems. The student will learn principles and tools within the discipline of geography and apply them to studying relationships between the Earth's atmosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere at multiple spatial and temporal scales. (3 lect., 3 lab) LSCI
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3.00 Credits
An introductory course in human (cultural) geography for students who may not have previously taken a college-level geography course. The main purpose of the course is to introduce students to the study of geography as a social science by emphasizing the relevance of geographic concepts to human problems. We try to answer two basic questions: Where are people located on the earth's surface? and; Why are they located in particular places? (3 lect.) SOC
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces fundamental concepts associated with Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Topics include geospatial data models; data acquisition; data integration from global positioning systems (GPS) and geocoding. Additional class time will be devoted to data manipulation, presentation and editing. Prerequisites: Completion of MATH 0900 or test into MATH 0920 or higher. (3 lect., 3 lab.)
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4.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of the role of geographic information science, maps, and technology in contemporary geospatial problem solving. Major topics include the foundations and applications of geographic information systems (GIS), global positioning systems (GPS), and remote sensing (RS). The course will involve the application of geospatial concepts, including coordinate systems and map projections, introductory mapping skills, and societal applications of geospatial technologies. Prerequisites: Completion of MATH 0900 or test into MATH 0920 or higher. (3 lect. 3 lab) LSCI
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