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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
ODL 250 Biking (0-2-0-1)
This course provides hands-on experience in skill development and leadership training in all aspects of bicycling. Emphasis is placed on developing the technical skills, safety techniques, and leadership abilities associated with bicycling. Upon completion of this course, the students should be able to safely perform and lead a group in this activity.
ODL 260 Challenge Course Management (1-4-0-3)
Prerequisite: ODL 120
This course provides students with the additional skills for the effective management of
challenge courses. Emphasis is placed on group management, facility inspection, and advanced rescue techniques. Upon completion, the students should be able to demonstrate the skills necessary to lead and maintain challenge course events and facilities.
ODL 267 Primitive Living Skills (1-4-0-3)
This course introduces the student to the use of primitive living skills in outdoor environ- ment. Topics include a primitive orientation to navigation, re building, shelters, cooking and camping in the backcountry. Upon Completion, students should be able to travel and establish a campsite using primitive living skills.
ODL 270 Swift Water Rescue (0-2-0-1)
This course provides students with skills needed to perform rescues in a swift water environ- ment. Emphasis is placed on river hydrology, rigging, swimming and rescue techniques focus- ing and intensive practice drills. Upon completion, students should be able to appropriately respond to a swift water emergency.
ODL 275 Advanced Swift Water Rescue (0-2-0-1)
This course is designed to take the student beyond the emphasis of self-rescue to concen- trate on victim rescue in swift water and ood environments. Topics include rope systems, management of litter and patient raising systems, advanced river search concepts and man- agement of complex rescue scenes. Upon completion, students should be able to perform rescues in complex swift water environments.
ODL 277 Technical Rope Rescue (1-2-0-2)
This course is designed to take students from over-the-bank rescues to progressively more vertical rescues. Topics include such skills as pre-planning, size-up and scene management, ascending and descending, belaying, mechanical advantage systems, lowering and raising systems, patient packaging and litter attending, tethers, and high lines. Upon completion, students should be able to effectively perform technical rope rescues.
ODL 286 Issues in Outdoor Leadership (2-2-0-3)
This course is designed to provide a capstone experience in preparation for employment in the outdoor industry. Topics include an examination of professional issues, ethics, and cur- rent theoretical perspectives in outdoor leadership and preparation of an outdoor experience portfolio. Upon completion, students should be able to articulate the conceptual knowledge of ethics and professional issues of an emerging outdoor leader.
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