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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
This course practices more advanced outdoor adventure skills, including such seasonal activities as whitewater canoeing, intermediate rock climbing, winter mountaineering, ice climbing, ropes course, and top rope climbing site management. Prerequisites & Notes There is a lab fee. This course is offered every semester. Credits: 1 to 2
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to Ski Resort Management offers an overview of the specific mountain and management operations of ski resorts and the interrelation of the resort and tourist industries. The instruction focuses on an analysis of the physical, financial, and human variables attendant to the tourist industry and the operation of a destination resort. Prerequisites & Notes This course is offered every fall. Credits: 3
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1.00 Credits
This course studies specific outdoor adventure skills. The course includes seasonal activities such as flatwater canoeing, beginning rock climbing, orienteering, and snowshoeing. Prerequisites & Notes There is a lab fee. This course is offered every fall and may be repeated for credit. Credits: 1
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of GIS/GPS technology as they relate to natural resource planning. Basic introductory concepts of GIS/GPS operations, data processing, digitizing, data formats, projections and datum, remote sensory, and spatial accuracy are introduced as they apply to such natural resource applications as vegetation mapping, accuracy assessment, corridors and buffers of natural and man made features, and the role that mapping plays in developing management planning and policy. Prerequisites & Notes There is a lab fee. This course is offered every fall. Credits: 3
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3.00 Credits
This course acquaints students with various types of environmental settings. The instruction offers classroom learning in the spring semester and outdoor learning in local mountains and rivers one week following the spring semester or prior to the fall semester.? The instruction offers competency for those students who may later serve as student leaders for the practicum. Register for second-half mini course. Prerequisites & Notes There is a lab fee. This course is offered every spring. Credits: 3
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the interrelationship of commercial, ski resort, natural resource based, therapeutic and community recreation providers. Utilizing an issues format, the course analyzes public (federal, state, and local), private, and voluntary sectors of the recreation delivery system and discusses legal and policy foundations of delivery systems, budget and finance considerations of the various sectors, principles and strategies for assessing and advocating of leisure services, and techniques of assessment and evaluation. Finally the course explores professional and ethical issues in the delivery of services. Prerequisites & Notes There is a lab fee. This course is offered every fall. Credits: 3
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4.00 Credits
This course provides students who are concentrating in adventure-based program management an opportunity to participate in a variety of hands-on field experiences to begin developing skills necessary for effective outdoor leadership. This course provides instruction and practice in a variety of skills that include but are not limited to technical, safety, environmental, leadership, and facilitation skills. OER 2850 is offered every fall; OER 2040 is a spring semester option that focuses on selected outdoor leadership skills in winter settings. Prerequisites & Notes The prerequisites are sophomore standing and permission. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every semester. Credits: 4
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3.00 Credits
This course integrates wilderness and medical training that leads to certification in Wilderness First Responder (WFR). The course content meets the Department of Transportation National Standards for First Responder with additional protocols for extended care situations. Prerequisites & Notes There is a lab fee. This course is offered every fall. Credits: 3
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the resource and ecological impacts of recreation use. The instruction addresses the positive and negative changes in environmental conditions occurring to the resource base as a result of recreational use. These changes include degradation of such resources as soils, water, vegetation, and wildlife. The course explores concepts of wilderness, wildland recreation, direct and indirect impacts, and spatial distribution of recreation impacts. This course also includes an examination of the differences in levels of human activity on natural resources. The field lab requirement of the course acquaints students with an understanding of impacts, their severity, and their interrelationships. The lab also provides students with an understanding of using both GIS and GPS mapping techniques to examine spatial concepts related to broader issues of recreation activity-environment interactions. Prerequisites & Notes There is a lab fee. This course is offered every fall. Credits: 4
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3.00 Credits
[Choice:OC] This course explores the interface between wilderness and the self from historical, cultural, psychological, and personal perspectives, aimed toward the student's development of her or his own wilderness ethic.? The course examines historical American perspectives on wilderness and assesses how our relationship with wilderness has changed over time.? These perspectives are then compared and contrasted with views presented by other cultures.? These explorations will be advanced through the use of lecture, dialogue, and experiential learning.? Throughout the course, the student will be challenged to examine her or his own views on the meaning, purpose, and value of wilderness and to develop a set of personal ethics and practices that correspond with those views. Prerequisites & Notes This course is offered?every fall semester. Credits: 3
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