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CATALOG INFORMATION
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Discipline and Nbr:
NRM 66 | Title:
WILDERNESS SKILLS |
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Full Title:
Wilderness Skills |
Last Reviewed:9/24/2018 |
Units | Course Hours per Week | | Nbr of Weeks | Course Hours Total |
Maximum | 3.00 | Lecture Scheduled | 3.00 | 17.5 max. | Lecture Scheduled | 52.50 |
Minimum | 3.00 | Lab Scheduled | 2.00 | 8 min. | Lab Scheduled | 35.00 |
| Contact DHR | 0 | | Contact DHR | 0 |
| Contact Total | 5.00 | | Contact Total | 87.50 |
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| Non-contact DHR | 0 | | Non-contact DHR Total | 0 |
| Total Out of Class Hours: 105.00 | Total Student Learning Hours: 192.50 | |
Title 5 Category:
AA Degree Applicable
Grading:
Grade Only
Repeatability:
00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As:
Formerly:
FOR 66
Catalog Description:
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Advanced principles and techniques of wilderness camping survival and leadership. Emphasis on skills required for safe supervision of groups in wilderness living.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Recommended Preparation:
Eligibility for ENGL 100 or ESL 100.
Limits on Enrollment:
Schedule of Classes Information
Description:
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Adv principles & techniques of wilderness camping, survival & leadership.
(Grade Only)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL 100 or ESL 100.
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION
Associate Degree: | Effective: | | Inactive: | |
Area: | | |
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CSU GE: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
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IGETC: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
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CSU Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Fall 1984 | Inactive: | |
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UC Transfer: | | Effective: | | Inactive: | |
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Certificate/Major Applicable:
Certificate Applicable Course
COURSE CONTENT
Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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The student will:
1. Demonstrate and explain proper equipment selection for a number
of different climatic environments and activities.
2. Demonstrate the proper use of the hand compass and topographic
maps for orienteering purposes in wilderness backcountry.
3. Obtain Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and first aid
certification.
4. Demonstrate and practice proper campground safety and courtesy.
5. Learn and illustrate proper rigging and knot-typing techniques
for backcountry use.
6. Use and practice wilderness survival techniques.
7. Successfully complete two scheduled backcountry trips.
Topics and Scope
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A. Introduction
Review of low-impact camping and survival skills. Introduction
to emergency medical training.
B. First Aid (for Red Cross Certification)
C. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (for American Red Cross Certifica-
tion)
D. Do it yourself equipment fabrication (pack, tent, snowshoes,
stoves)
E. Cold weather and snow skills and equipment adaptations -Including
classroom and field instruction in safe cross country winter travel
with skies or snowshoes.
F. Group dynamics for wilderness leaders.
G. Employment and service opportunities in wilderness leadership
programs for social and psychological change.
H. Potential of wilderness leadership programs for social and
psychological change.
I. Conservation of time, energy, and the environment: personal and
land management factors.
Assignments:
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Students will be required to complete:
1. Reading assignments that will average ten pages per week.
2. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and first aid certification.
3. Thirty minute oral presentation on outdoor recreation equipment
selection, use and maintenance.
4. Field demonstration and test of proper land orienteering
techniques using the hand compass and topographic maps.
5. Field demonstration and test of proper rigging and knot-tying
techniques for backcountry use.
6. Field Demonstration and test of wilderness survival techniques.
7. Two scheduled backcountry trips with the class.
8. Written assignments during semester as scheduled by instructor.
Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.
Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing. | Writing 0 - 0% |
None | |
This is a degree applicable course but assessment tools based on writing are not included because problem solving assessments and skill demonstrations are more appropriate for this course. |
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Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills. | Problem Solving 20 - 20% |
Field work, Exams | |
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams. | Skill Demonstrations 50 - 50% |
Class performances, Field work | |
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams. | Exams 20 - 20% |
Multiple choice, True/false, Matching items, Completion, SHORT ESSAY QUESTIONS | |
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories. | Other Category 0 - 0% |
None | |
Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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"National Red Cross First Aid and CPR Manual"
Kirk, Don, "Wild Edible Plants of the Western United States", 1980
Naturegraph Publishers 180 pp.
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