Outdoor Education
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PDP OE 101: Introduction to Outdoor Adventures
A comprehensive introduction to outdoor activities including hiking, camping, paddling, cooking outdoors, and survival skills. Learn how to manage risks and safety outdoors, develop outdoor leadership skills, and learn to adventure outdoors while leaving no trace. Course will take place primarily in a classroom setting; at BU FitRec and at the BU Sailing Pavilion. -
PDP OE 140: Rock Climbing, Beginning
A comprehensive introduction to indoor rock climbing. Topics include: belay skills, boulder and top rope climbing technique, mental aspects of climbing, social and environmental impacts of rock climbing. Classes are primarily based on physical activity, mixed with traditional learning. Attendance on first day of class is mandatory. Participants must pay a $40 equipment fee that includes a semester pass for equipment rental. -
PDP OE 150: Urban Bicycling
Bicycles provide a fast, fun, affordable, and healthy way to get around. This course will explore the many facets of using a bicycle for transportation including rules of the road, route planning, clothing selection, cargo hauling, bicycle maintenance, and safe riding technique -- everything one needs to confidently ride a bicycle in a city. Great for international students who are unfamiliar with local traffic laws. This course meets for one hour a week and will be a combination of classroom lectures and on-bike practice. -
PDP WF 101: Sailing, Beginning
Prerequisite: Successful completion of the Boating Swim Test or Waiver. This is an introductory course for those with little or no sailing experience. The course will explore boat rigging, basic nautical terminology, safety procedures, and elementary sailing maneuvers. The course meets for two hours once a week at the BU Sailing Pavilion and will be a combination of land-based lectures and practice as well as on the water instruction. -
PDP WF 102: Kayaking
Prereq: Successful completion of the Boating Swim Test. For those with little or no kayaking experience. Course includes: knots, terminology, self-rescue, and basic paddling maneuvers for single and double kayaks. -
PDP WF 104: Rowing, Beginning
Prereq: Successful completion of the Boating Swim Test. The fundamentals of rowing and coxing are taught both on indoor rowing machines and outdoors on the Charles River. The basic concepts of sweep rowing and potentially sculling will be covered. -
PDP WF 201: Sailing, Intermediate
Prerequisites: PDP WF 101 or the equivalent sailing experience and successful completion of the Boating Swim Test or Waiver. The course will introduce the technical skills and racing aspects of sailing for students who have completed an introductory sailing course or have had some sailing experience. The course meets for two hours once a week at the BU Sailing Pavilion and will be a combination of land-based lectures and practice as well as on the water instruction.
