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Apr 23, 2024
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REC 3110 - Expedition Planning & Management
Introduces students to knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary for effective planning and management of short as well as extended wilderness expeditions. Course topics include goal setting and researching your expedition, training and health considerations, expedition budgeting and finance, logistics and expedition support, transportation and lodging, energy balance and menu planning, equipment, leadership, expedition behavior and communication, and safety and risk management.
Requisites: REC 2150
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Apply basic principles of financial budgeting to determine costs and effectively allocate financial resources in planning and managing a wilderness expedition.
- Apply basic principles of safety and risk management in creating expedition plans, including the development of emergency procedures.
- Demonstrate knowledge of basic principles related to maintaining energy balance through effective menu planning for an extended wilderness expedition.
- Identify and describe basic principles related to facilitating the development of positive group norms and individual role performance among expedition members.
- Identify and describe equipment needs for specific wilderness expeditions.
- Identify logistical concerns related to travel, lodging and expedition support.
- Incorporate the principles of Leave No Trace and other considerations related to resource use in developing and implementing an expedition plan.
- Utilize various informational resources in creating an expedition plan.
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