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School: Red Rocks Community College

Canoeing
Course Format: Classroom
emphasizes intermediate paddling technique and river reading skills for both tandem and solo boating. Students will learn safety procedures, equipment hazard evaluation, and how to minimize environmental impact on river and lake environments.
 

Wilderness Survival Skills
Course Format: Classroom
emphasizes the physiological, psychological and practical principles of survival. Survival equipment, wilderness improvising techniques, and wilderness dangers are included.
 

Mountaineering
Course Format: Classroom
provides students with a combination of skills and practical experience in the fundamentals of mountaineering. Emphasis is placed on basic climbing skills and techniques, equipment usage, safety systems, mountain travel and awareness, problem solving and decision-making, high altitude climate and weather, wilderness ethics, and physical fitness.
 

Outdoor Expedition
Course Format: Classroom
is a group expedition covering seven to ten days combining hiking, backpacking, climbing, or paddling in remote North American regions. The course includes the rationale for organizing and conducting wilderness trips.
 

Backpacking
Course Format: Classroom
provides skills related to wilderness travel and outdoor adventure. This course will emphasize knowledge of backpacking skills, survival techniques, proper physical conditioning, route finding, equipment selection, and develop an understanding and respect for the environment. The course will involve lecture and discussion sessions followed by a weekend trip in the mountains.
 

Hiking
Course Format: Classroom
provides skills related to hiking and wilderness travel. This course emphasizes hiking skills, proper conditioning, route finding, equipment, and hiking hazards and ethics. The course involves conditioning in the fitness center and weekend hikes.
 

Rock Climbing
Course Format: Classroom
PED 150 Rock Climbing I 2 credits PED 150 is designed to introduce basic rock climbing, improve dexterity, problem solving skills and the physical work capacity of an individual. The primary emphasis will be to gain an understanding of the general principles of climbing; how equipment works and how it is used; basic climbing skills and techniques; safety and climbing etiquette and terminology...
 

Yoga
Course Format: Classroom
PED 147 Yoga I 1 credit PED 147 offers a guided instruction in yoga. Students practice yoga according to their individual fitness levels and abilities. Emphasis is placed on enhancing general health and wellbeing through the performance of yoga strength, flexibility, balance and relaxation techniques and exercises. PED 148 Yoga II 1 credit Prerequisite: PED 147 or permission of instructo...
 

Pilates Matwork
Course Format: Classroom
focuses on Pilates matwork to increase core strength, overall muscles tone and flexibility with focused and precise floor work techniques. This is a physical education class built upon the philosophies and exercises of Josef Pilates.
 

Tai Chi
Course Format: Classroom
PED 143 Tai Chi I 1 credit PED 143 is designed to introduce Tai Chi as an expression of understanding of self-control, exercise and self defense. The primary emphasis is to gain an understanding of the history (origins and changes) of Tai Chi, the movements and their names, application of movements and terminology. PED 144 Tai Chi II 1 credit PED 144 will emphasize the instruction of Tai...
 

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