Winter Expedition Skills: Photo by Paul Van Horn

Outdoor Education at Northland College


General
Check Out My Myspace!
Contact Us!
Northland College
Northland Admissions


Features
News 2/12/08

Announcements 3/19/08
Course Descriptions
Registration Help 6/23/08
Class Reading Lists

Jobs/Internships
Graduates at Work
Job Resouces
Jobs 6/24/08
Internships 5/1/08


Affiliations
Outdoor Pursuits
Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute
Audubon Center of the North Woods



Services
Professional Links
Campus Directory

Contact Webmaster

The Outdoor Education Program offers a required Outdoor Education Core, plus four academic majors and two minors.  They are Adventure Education, Therapeutic and Universal Design, Natural History, and Native American Studies/Outdoor Education, with minors in Outdoor Education and Adventure Education.  These courses of study expose students to the following aspects of the field of Outdoor Education: leadership and management issues, risk management, program design, educational philosophy, personal growth, communication, wilderness skills, block semester programs, and a senior level capstone experience.  By completing an Outdoor Education major, students are empowered to establish and maintain a relationship with nature.  The program advocates community and environmental justice and promotes a stewardship philosophy toward the land, water, and living systems on this planet.  The diverse faculty has a commitment to academic excellence, interdisciplinary programs, and to the pedagogies of environmental education, experiential education, service learning, reflection, and oral tradition.  Finally, the program integrates Outdoor Education with an environmental liberal arts curriculum and the overall mission of Northland College. (Read More)
A thumbnail photo of the Northland College Seal, linking to the Northland College home page A thumbnail photo of an Introduction to Outdoor Education student, in her climbing harness, and ready to tackle the Pamper Pole on the high challenge course, linking to a photo page for that activity A thumbnail photo of a Canada Jay perched on an Outdoor Education student's outstretched hand, and linking to a photo page for a spring canoe trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness A thumbnail photo of Northland College, Wilderness Writers and Philosophers class students posed before Sigurd F. Olson's writing shack, and linking to a photo page of students touring the shack A thumbnail photo of Outdoor Education students in Access and Diversity class, carrying a twenty six foot North Canoe with community partners, and linking to a photo page of their afternoon on Lake Superior
A thumbnail photo of Northland College, Winter Block students teaching adaptive skiing in Breckenridge, Colorado, and linking to a photo page of their trip A thumbnail of a gag-photo, of a Winter Expedition Skills student with both head and feet protruding from a snow-cave entrance, and linking to a photo page from their trip A thumbnail photo of Search and Rescue Class students carrying a Litter through the snow, and linking to a class photo page from that day A thumbnail of a photo of an Outdoor Education, Winter Block Student, and client, on skis, in Breckenridge, Colorado, and linking to an article with photos, entitled: Northland College Winter Block: A Legacy of Volunteering A thumbnail photo of an Introduction to Outdoor Education student stretched out, in mid-move, on the outdoor climbing wall, and linking to a photo page from that day