By the end of this course, students should be able to examine legal issues rationally and should be better able to interact with and utilize the expertise of the legal system. This course offers hands-on experience in skill development, leadership training, and rescue techniques of rafting, canoeing, and kayaking. This course offers hands-on experience in skill development, leadership training, and rescue techniques of orienteering, backpacking, mountain biking, and rock climbing. An introduction to all phases of organized camping, WLEE 330 includes the philosophy of camp counseling, national standards, values clarification, organization of camps, leadership training, communication skills, discipline, and program activities. This course also includes a study of the characteristics and needs of today's youth, with emphasis on how a camp counselor's guidance and leadership can meet those needs.
Emphasis is placed on preparation for employment at a summer camp.
This course examines administrative and program issues uniquely related to the camping industry and takes advantage of the many camps and camp directors located in Transylvania County to study camp administrative practices and programming needs. For course description see EXSC 402. There is a deep intellectual history behind the camping, wilderness, and experiential education movements. This course familiarizes students with important ideas and people within this history. Plato, Muir, Thoreau, Carson, Hahn, Unsoeld, Petzoldt, Warren, and others will be studied so that students develop greater appreciation for wilderness and experiential education.