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4.00 Credits
In this course students will examine the current state of rivers in the western United States. This field-based course will travel various waterways in the Colorado River watershed and experience the complex pressures on this resource first-hand. The course will examine western water history, water rights, western development, environmental legislation, and the impacts of climate change. Students can expect to travel on both free-flowing and dammed river sections, on foot, in boats and by vehicle. Students will learn the requisite river travel and backcountry skills to effectively navigate waterways, research and teach specific topics, and explore future solutions for this complex issues.
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3.00 Credits
This survey course provides a historical overview of social, political, environmental, and cultural influences that have shaped the outdoor recreation and education industry in the United States since 1800. The course will focus on topics such as westward expansion, social movements, educational reform, and emerging trends. The course will emphasize multiple historical perspectives of outdoor and wilderness recreation in the U.S., including underrepresented groups.
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4.00 Credits
This May Term Study Experience will take students to Western China (specifically Sichuan, Yunnan, and Tibet) to visit numerous world heritage sites, sacred landscapes, and places of cultural and ecological significance, such as Mount Qingcheng (one of the most important centers of Daoism in China), Mount Emei (one of the four sacred Buddhist mountains of China), Potala Palace (the residence of the Dalai Lama until the 14th Dalai Lama), Namtso (one of the three sacred lakes in Tibet that is venerated by the indigenous Tibetan Bon culture and Tibetan Buddhists , and Yubeng village (where one can trek to sacred waterfalls, lakes, and ancient glaciers). Excursion sites are grouped together with their connection to the three major academic focuses of the course: a) sacred relationship between people and place, b) environmental heritage and pollution control, and c) the impacts of climate change, development and tourism on the livelihood of local people. Through three weeks of travel, participants will have the opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of the richness and complexity of the human-environment relationship, global self-awareness, and other crucial personal qualities such as flexibility and responsibility.
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on a variety of populations and the ways in which they access the outdoors. It begins through investigations of the characteristics of special populations and how this may impact their experience. The second part involves investigating programs and techniques that effectively make the outdoors accessible to a variety of people. The final part of the course is an opportunity for each student to demonstrate how they would differentiate their instruction when working with a specific group of people in the outdoors.
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4.00 Credits
This course studies the management of outdoor and adventure programs. Topics include the use of public and private lands, basic understanding of the impact of use on the natural environment, review of biological and physical science concepts relative to land use, care of the environment, permits, staffing, supervision of staff, staff training, personnel issues, certification, scheduling, budgeting, risk management, insurance, marketing, logistical planning, strategic planning, public policy, access to outdoor resources, and search and rescue.
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3.00 Credits
This course will be an overview of the history, policy changes, administration and current issues related to publicowned land in the United States. Specifically, the course will study the Department of Agriculture (Forest Service, National Resource Conservation Service), the Department of the interior (National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, Department of Reclamation, US Fish and Wildlife Services, US Geologic Survey), and the myriad of interest groups using public lands. With a historical and structural foundation students will analyze current events, current land use issues and the health and sustainability of our public lands. This class will include both classroom and field time.
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3.00 Credits
This field-based course examines how the avalanche cycle is determined by meteorological and geological processes and, in turn, how avalanches affect surrounding ecological communities. Students will understand how to gather and collect snowpack data for the purpose of predicting the likelihood of avalanches. Further, students will engage the phenomenon through field studies on skis or snowboards, by gathering and analyzing snowpack and meteorology data, through lecture, and through first-hand accounts from avalanche survivors. In addition, this course examines the impact of avalanches on human activity in alpine terrain, from both historical and modern perspectives, and particularly on modern outdoor recreation.
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3.00 Credits
In this course students will explore historical and current issues related to gender and leadership. Today's leadership climate has changed to some degree for women; however, women are still vastly underrepresented in higher leadership positions. This course will analyze the role gender plays and what barriers are in place that account for this inequity. Topics include the constructs of leadership in a variety of contexts. e.g. higher education, politics, and the corporate world; how the gender binary/continuum influences our conception of leadership; leadership and feminist theory; intersectionality; and an overview of some of the current research on gender and leadership. Students will explore leadership from a personal and political perspective; they will critically think about their own definitions of and experiences with leadership and deconstruct how gender has influenced their views. Stemming from a critical and feminist perspective, students will explore ways in how leadership can be more inclusive, participatory, and egalitarian.
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1.00 Credits
A tutorial-based course used only for student-initiated proposals for intensive individual study of topics not otherwise offered in the Outdoor Education and Leadership Program. The scale of the individual study, and the final product will determine the number of credits offered for the directed study. The directed study will ideally combine intensive study and experience with experts in the community or outdoor education field.
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4.00 Credits
In this capstone course students will integrate their experiences, research, goals, and practical application of outdoor education and leadership. The course will focus on contemporary issues and trends in the field with topics including social justice, public land management (federal, state, and local), ethics (environmental and virtue-based),practical application of research, options for further education in the field, and career opportunities. During the course, students will identify their individual context within outdoor education and leadership, and complete a comprehensive capstone project. The project requires students to research their area of interest, write a literature review, present their personal professional philosophy, and how they plan to contribute to the field based on their career goals and education.
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