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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

Arbeids- og læringsformer

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 exam, graded mark
• Work requirement, mandatory individual and group trips

All parts must be passed.

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