Students not in the junior college diploma Outdoor Leadership Program must have permission of the instructor to enter this course. This course offers hands-on experience in skill development, leadership training, and rescue techniques of orienteering, backpacking, mountain biking, and rock climbing. Students not in the junior college diploma Outdoor Leadership Program must have permission of the instructor to enter this course. An introduction to all phases of organized camping including philosophy, 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. Students not in the junior college diploma Outdoor Leadership Program must have permission of the instructor to enter this course. 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.