Læringsmål

The aim of the program is to provide the students with an introduction to the outdoors in various settings; mountain areas, forests, the coastline and waterways. By gaining experience in the various settings, they will be given an opportunity to develop their basic outdoors’ skills and knowledge within the context of the various natural environments. They shall learn to set their goals in keeping with their own competence and work independently in order to develop their skills.

Innhold

The subject is structured into the three settings: coastline, mountains/forests and waterways.

Coastline I, Skills and Knowledge:

• The importance of having a surplus of energy on trips and hikes; choosing destinations and routes in accordance with one’s ability, safety and realistic goals
• Taking responsibility for one's own learning
• Outings in the wild: laws and regulations; the importance of leaving no traces
• Trip planning, sailing/rowing trips in groups, safety and guidelines for outings
• Sailing and rowing in small boats rigged with spritsails
• Lines, rigging and marlinspike seamanship.
• Mooring
• Finding shelter and establishing a campsite, setting up a lavo (a traditional Sami tent)
• Maintenance of boats and equipment
• The inhabitants of coastal Norway: the Nordic boat-builders, sail-makers, and lighthouse keepers, fishermen and pilots
• Didactics: guidelines for outings, procedures, organisation, working methods, management and leadership

Mountains/forests I, Skills and Knowledge:

• The importance of having a surplus of energy on outdoor excursions, choosing routes and destinations in keeping with one’s competence, choosing trip area according to ability, safety and goals
• Taking responsibility for own learning
• Outings in the wild: laws and regulations; the importance of leaving no traces
• Planning trips; going on expeditions in groups; safety and guidelines for outings
• Clothes and equipment
• Shelter and making camp: choosing a campsite and making camp, constructing gapahuks (lean-to shelters), tents
• Orienteering and route choice, maps and compasses, choice of destinations
• Food, building campfires and cooking utensils
• Harvesting and preparing berries and mushrooms
• Hygiene and first-aid in the forests and mountains
• Weather and weather portents
• Handicraft
• People in the mountains: use of the mountains in a cultural-historical perspective
• Didactics: trip guidelines, procedures, organisation, working methods, management and leadership, learning from one another

Waterways I, Skills and Knowledge:

• The importance of having a surplus of energy in the wilderness, planning trips in accordance with one’s ability, choosing trip area according to ability, safety and objectives
• Taking responsibility for one’s own learning
• Outings in the wild: laws and regulations; the importance of leaving no traces
• Planning trips, paddling expeditions in groups, safety and trip guidelines
• Paddling canoes on calm water and in rapids, basic paddling techniques
• Assessing rivers
• Wading in swift water
• Saving oneself in calm water and in rapids
• Lifesaving in calm water and in rapids
• Shelter and making camp: choosing a campsite and making camp, canoe-bivouac
• Orienteering and route choice, maps and compasses, choice of destination,
• Food, campfires and cooking utensils
• Harvesting and preparing berries and mushrooms
• Hygiene and first-aid near the water
• Weather and weather portents
• People along the waterways: use of the waterways in a cultural-historical perspective, the river as a symbol, the history of the canoe, areas of use and planning

Organisering

Duration
8 weeks, autumn semester

Lectures, group projects and practical exercises, problem-oriented guidance in connection with trips in various natural environments. The trips are obligatory: 16 days with an instructor and a 7-day study-trip alone.

Please not that there are extra fees connected to this course. We estimate about 1000 norwegian kroner to cover transportation, classrom materials and books.

Vurderingsformer

Portfolio. Grades (A to F with F as fail). In order to qualify for taking the exam students must have participated in the mandatory individual and group trips.

Det tas forbehold om mindre justeringer i planen.