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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
In this course, students will be introduced to outdoor living and travel skills. Topics will include personal preparedness, equipment selection, camp craft skills, outdoor cooking, basic land navigation, trip planning, low-impact practices and safety. This course includes a multi-day trip.
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In this class, students will have an opportunity to experience group-initiative problems, trust-building activities, and low and high ropes-course challenges. Students will gain an understanding of how the ropes course is a valuable recreational, educational and developmental tool.
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This course is designed to introduce students to backpacking and to provide them with the skills and knowledge to safely participate in this recreational activity on their own. Topics will include personal preparedness, equipment selection, camp craft skills, trip planning, low-impact practices, outdoor living skills and safety. This course includes a multi-day trip.
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This course will include instruction in map and compass use for land navigation. Through practical outdoor experiences, students will gain the skills and knowledge to participate in the recreational sport of orienteering and to aid them in wilderness travel.
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This course is designed to introduce students to technical rock climbing. The instruction focuses on personal preparedness, equipment selection and use, knot-tying, belaying and rappelling techniques, climbing movement, safety practices, and ethics for climbing and the environment. (Shared course in VSC)
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This course is designed to enable kayakers to negotiate the challenge of whitewater, focusing on equipment, river dynamics, and safety procedures. Students will be taught in controlled and off-campus locations.
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This course is designed as an introduction to recreational kayak touring. Course content will include physical preparation, equipment requirements, paddling and self-rescue skills, and minimum-impact techniques. It will focus primarily on the experience of lake touring and will include some exposure to technical skill development. Students will practice skills in the college pool and partake in an off-campus field trip.
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2.00 Credits
The Coastal Kayak Guide Training is an intensive, multi-day program designed to expose students to the skills required to instruct and lead groups in open water kayaking conditions. The training focuses on the development of personal paddling skills, instructional tactics, sea "person"-ship, rescues, leadership and decision making. The course is a blend of dry land presentations and on-water practical sessions; since the goal is to expose students to a variety of sea states, the schedule will be dynamic and the days will be long and more often than not, wet. The majority of on-water sessions will be scenario-driven and taught in the context of skills development tours, where students may function as the instructor/guide. Participants will have ample opportunity for self assessment, instructor assessment, and peer assessment. In addition, students will be required to perform both written and practical skills assessments. The training may occur on inland bodies of water such as Lake Champlain, Vermont and/or on coastal waters. Students may have the opportunity to assess for nationally or internationally recognized paddlesport certifications.
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This course introduces students to technical ice climbing, focusing on personal preparedness for cold weather environments, equipment selection and use, low-impact practices and safety. Students will be taught in controlled and off-campus locations. (Shared course in VSC)
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