HREC 242 Wilderness Survival Skills
This course is designed to equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary for a 72 hour fall or summer survival situation. Course content includes signaling, shelter building, hypothermia, survival kits, fire building, direction finding, and desert hazards. Fee required.
General Education Competency
[GE Core type]
HREC 242Wilderness Survival Skills
Please note: This is not a course syllabus. A course syllabus is unique to a particular section of a course by instructor. This curriculum guide provides general information about a course.
I. General Information
Department
Health, Recreation & Fitness
II. Course Specification
Course Type
Program Requirement
General Education Competency
[GE Core type]
Semester Contact Hours Lab
30
Grading Method
Letter grade
III. Catalog Course Description
This course is designed to equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary for a 72 hour fall or summer survival situation. Course content includes signaling, shelter building, hypothermia, survival kits, fire building, direction finding, and desert hazards. Fee required.
IV. Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, a student will be able to:
- Students will demonstrate appropriate safety practices
- Apply wellness knowledge and practice positive behavior growth using a
- Understand the concept of wellness and be able to recognize the long term benefits of maintaining a high level of wellness for living in today’s world
- Students will understand and apply the environmental dimension of wellness through active participation in training exercises and application in the wilderness, while also practicing LNT principles and ethics throughout the wilderness experience
- Students will understand and apply the intellectual dimension of wellness through application of knowledge about signaling, shelter building, hypothermia, survival skills, and direction finding during field sessions
- Students will understand and apply the social dimension of wellness through group activities and wilderness scenario situations in the field and in-class sessions, as well as during base camp interactions
- Minimum of three dimensions of wellness (Emotional, Environmental, Intellectual, Physical, Social, Spiritual and Financial)-Pick at least 3
- Students will demonstrate appropriate safety practices
- Students will improve/maintain their level of cardiovascular fitness throughout the semester
V. Topical Outline (Course Content)
Topics
Activities
Survival Strategies
Syllabus
Shelter building
What is your mindset?
Expectations and outcomes
Fire, Water, Navigation, Signaling
? How to build a fire
? How to navigate
? Differences in terrain and location – what are your tools?
Hypothermia and Survival Kits
? Pack our Packs
In the field training / Weekend trip
? Shelter building
? Fire building
? Water filtration
? Navigation
? Hypothermia
? Survival scenarios
VI. Delivery Methodologies
Required Assignments
Health History Form
Liability waiver
Scenario based question assignments
Required Exams
Post safety survey on student evaluation
Skill check-off
Reflection paper post class
Required Text
1. Outdoor Survival by Randy Gerke
2. Mountaineering: the freedom of the hills 8th edition
Specific Course Activity Assignment or Assessment Requirements
Health History Form
Liability waiver
Scenario based question assignments
Post safety survey on student evaluation
Skill check-off
Reflection paper post class