The place of nature and ritual is examined through a weekend reflection/solo experience.

Prerequisites: Adventure Education major. Students who anticipate declaring an Adventure Education minor should speak with the instructor about waiver of prerequisites.

Course fee: $20.

This course provides an introduction to the skills and safety systems associated with institutional rock climbing for the adventure educator.

Prerequisites: Adventure Education major. Students who anticipate declaring an Adventure Education minor should speak with the instructor about waiver of prerequisites.

Topics include:

• management of rock climbing in adventure programs
• belaying
• rappelling
  
• top-rope anchor building,
  
• stewardship of climbing environments.

This course provides an introduction to the skills of flat/moving water canoeing, river rafting and/or tour kayaking for the adventure educator.

Prerequisites: Adventure Education major, instructor permission. Students who anticipate declaring an Adventure Education minor should speak with the instructor about waiver of prerequisites.

Topics include:

• selection and use of equipment
• trip planning
• safety and rescue procedures
• group management on the water
• stewardship of water environments.

This course provides an introduction to telemark skiing for the adventure educator.

Prerequisites: Adventure Education major. Students who anticipate declaring an Adventure Education minor should speak with the instructor about waiver of prerequisites.

Course fee: $100.

Topics include:

• turning
• weighting/unweighting
• body position
• selection and use of equipment
• safety procedures
• stewardship of mountain environments.

This course introduces you to the use of a variety of low and high challenge course initiatives for instructing others in:

• problem solving
• trust and team building
• self-confidence
• communication skills.

It includes belay and high ropes rescue techniques.

Prerequisites: Adventure Education major. Students who anticipate declaring an Adventure Education minor should speak with the instructor about waiver of prerequisites.

Course fee: $100.

Professional practices of extended backcountry travel. Students plan, organize and participate in a series of three to 14-day mountain, desert and/or river wilderness trips.

Prerequisites: AE 101 with minimum grade of C+.

Corequisites: AE 210, AE 220

Course fee: $220. Students must also have proper clothing and equipment for extended backcountry travel.

Topics include:

• Leave No Trace
• menu planning
• meal preparation
• equipment use
• campsite selection
• expedition technology
• map and compass orienteering
• route finding, and weather prediction.

The theory and implementation of adventure leadership, including:

• judgment and decision making
• problem solving
• risk management in the field
• leadership models and styles
• self-leadership
• situational leadership
• feedback
• expedition behavior
• effective communication
• valuing diversity
• behavior management
• professional ethics

Students serve as leaders for portions of extended backcountry travel experiences.

Prerequisites: AE 101 with minimum grade of C+.

Corequisites: AE 201, AE 220.

Course fee: $220. Students must also have proper clothing and equipment for extended backcountry travel.

An in-depth study of the models and methods of outdoor and experiential education.

Students will plan, present and give/receive feedback on lessons during extended backpacking expeditions.

Prerequisites: AE 101 with minimum grade of C+

Corequisites: AE 201, AE 210

Course fee: $220.

Topics include:

• lesson design
• creating an engaging learning environment
• physical, cognitive and affective methods of lesson delivery
• teaching for multiple intelligences
• challenge, stress and learning
• assessment of learning

Basic statistical procedures necessary to analyze and interpret data collected from tests in Exercise Science.

The course teaches descriptive and inferential statistics as well as an introduction to basic research techniques.

This course also examines selection and administration of testing instruments that measure objectives from the three domains of human performance.

Prerequisites: TRS 92 or Computed Math Placement Score MA 110

This course provides the knowledge needed to handle medical emergencies requiring extended care in remote settings. Emphasis is on prevention, decision making and treatment.

National certification requires this course to meet for approximately 80 hours.

Students who successfully complete the course and pass the WFR exam will receive a Wilderness First Responder certificate, good for three years.

Course fee: $325.

An exploration of the background, philosophical basis, ethical issues and theories of adventure and experiential education.

This course explains the “why” behind the “what” adventure educators do.

It includes an overview of applications to specific groups (youth-at-risk, chemical dependency, business, school, etc).

Students develop in writing their own personal philosophy of adventure education.

Prerequisites: AE 101 with a minimum grade of C+

Corequisites: AE 230

Advanced outdoor skills course focusing on selection and placement of protection gear, route finding, lead climbing and belaying, multiple pitch climbing, advanced anchor building, rescue systems, and climbing instructional strategies.

Knowledge, skills, and attitudes of basic mountaineering, including:

• snow, ice, and alpine climbing
• avalanche awareness
• use of technical equip including crampons, ropes and ice axes for snow and glacier travel
• use of fixed lines
• group management on technical terrain
• crevasse rescue
• mountaineering instructional strategies

Techniques and procedures to conduct canoeing, rafting, and/or kayaking in moving and whitewater environments.

Prerequisites: AE 131 with C+ or higher, AE 201.

Course fee: $85.

Equipment, techniques, and instructional strategies for travel and camping in winter conditions on snowshoes and backcountry skis.

Prerequisites: AE 141 with C+ or higher, AE 201.

Course fee: $200

This course provides the skills necessary for facilitating a variety of client groups in indoor and outdoor experiential and adventure programs.

Prerequisites: AE 101 with C+ or higher.

Course fee: $200

Each year this course will focus on a different advanced skill and/or the environment. Skills may include:

• wilderness search and rescue
• sea kayaking
• other skills

Repeatable provided the subject is different.

• Each year this course focuses on a different adventure topic. Topics may include:
• multi-cultural and international
• adventure pursuits
• corporate adventure training
• therapeutic adventure
• eco-psychology in outdoor adventure
• and other topics

• Students who have demonstrated a high level of proficiency serve as assistant instructors in Adventure Education courses, with FLC Outdoor Pursuits trips, or with other programs and populations.

Students take active leadership roles, prepare and teach adventure topics and skills.

• This is a capstone course in which students synthesize their experience in adventure leadership, instruction, and programming to explore the details of managing an adventure program.

Prerequisites: AE 310, AE 350

Course fee: $260.

• Students serve with an approved program/organization to gain a variety of on-the-job professional experience and apply theories and practices learned in adventure education courses.
• Each internship credit represents 50 hours of internship experience, so students should plan for a minimum of 7 weeks of full-time experience.

• Studies methods and techniques of research used in Exercise Science and analyzes examples of their use.

Prerequisites: (ES 242 or ES 350)
Instructor permission required.

• Discussion and inquiries dealing with contemporary issues, trends and problems in exercise science.