Join us tonight (Friday 10/9) at 5:30PM at the Fitness Center's Climbing Wall for an information session on the Outdoor Adventure Leadership major, the Outdoor Pursuits minor, and the 2016 Immersion Semester Program. Current OAL, OP, and ISP students will be available to share experiences, answer any questions AND belay any interested climbers.
Immersion Semester Program:
The ISP is an intensive semester-long study away program for outdoor leadership and skill development. The ISP employs adventure pursuits (i.e., backpacking, rock climbing, whitewater rafting) to engage topics ranging from wilderness philosophy to wilderness ethics, wilderness leadership to risk management, and wilderness medicine to wilderness literacy.
The ISP is open to all majors and minors featuring six courses (18 credits listed below) and experiential learning opportunities emphasizing leadership, judgment, decision-making, and communication. The ISP is NOT guide training or high-risk adventure for the sake of high-risk adventure. The skills gained on the ISP are intended to prepare future professional outdoor leaders AND to be easily transferrable for application to an industry of choice. The mission of the OAL ISP is to develop effective outdoor leaders, educators, and compassionate citizens.
ISP Courses
RLS 21800 Wilderness First Responder
RLS 22000 The Wilderness Experience
RLS 22300 Wilderness Literacy
RLS 35400 Organization & Supervision of Outdoor Pursuits
RLS 37000 Wilderness Land Use Ethics
RLS 42100 Wilderness Expedition Leadership
This year the ISP will start in Joshua Tree, California and spend 3 weeks backpacking across Joshua Tree National Park (JTNP). Then we will spend a week climbing in JTNP. After climbing the group will travel up the coast to Bend, Oregon. Next the group will compete a 9 day Wilderness First Responder Course followed by another rock climbing unit at Smith Rock State Park. The penultimate expedition is a river trip on the Deschutes River. Finally, the group will head out for about 2 weeks on a backpacking / mountaineering expedition that is primarily student planned and led. The entire field portion is 75 days and we cover all the ISP courses (listed above) while doing all the pursuits (described above). The course fee is roughly $9,000 and covers all your meals, transportation on course, and lodging during course. Students are responsible for getting themselves to and from course start (Palm Springs, CA) and course end (Portland, OR). You do not report to campus (IC) at all during the semester (so you don’t pay room and board- instead you pay the course fee; tuition is not included in the course fee). Finally, we run the ISP in collaboration with the Northwest Outward Bound School so in addition to IC faculty, you will have access to and instruction from industry leaders in outdoor education. We hope to see you at the wall this Friday!
Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Patrick Lewis at plewis@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-3132. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.
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