Course Content and Outcomes Guides (CCOG)

CCOG for PE 250 Winter 2025


Course Number:
PE 250
Course Title:
Professional Activities: Outdoor Leadership
Credit Hours:
2
Lecture Hours:
0
Lecture/Lab Hours:
40
Lab Hours:
0

Course Description

Explores leadership for outdoor fitness, wellness, and recreation activities. Covers logistics, planning, risk management, fitness and skill training, environmental stewardship, industry trends, and teaching techniques and strategies for outdoor activities. Includes a required outdoor lab activity. Required: Students provide basic equipment for the planned outdoor lab activity and arrange for transportation. Prerequisites: WR 115, RD 115 and MTH 20 or equivalent placement test scores. Audit available.

Addendum to Course Description

Students in this course will research outdoor health, wellness, and/or recreational activities; as a group, students will select an outdoor activity in which to plan, implement, and evaluate. The planned lab activity may involve overnight camping.

Intended Outcomes for the course

Upon completion of this course the student should be able to:

  • Design and implement an outdoor activity, program, or event by applying leadership,  planning, and management skills.
  • Apply effective teaching and motivational strategies when leading activities in outdoor environments.
  • Explore current trends and employment opportunities in outdoor leadership.

Course Activities and Design

The lecture portion of the course explores industry trends, leadership techniques, activity planning, development of logistics methods, and group presentations. A required in person off-campus lab activity will take place toward the end of the term to implement the planned outdoor activity. The planned outdoor lab activity may involve overnight camping.

Instructional strategies include lectures, classroom activities, online or electronic activities/discussions/assignments, small group work, group discussions, skills practice, and group activities.

Outcome Assessment Strategies

Group Project

Activity Lab

Quizzes and Exams

Outside of class observations and reports

Class participation

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

  1. Trends in outdoor health, wellness, and recreation activities

  2. Principles of Leadership: Philosophy and Styles

  3. Effective decision-making techniques

  4. Development of personal awareness

  5. Processes of activity selection, planning, implementation, and evaluation

  6. Elements and methods of logistics, including selection and acquisition of equipment

  7. Principles of Behavior: Communication, Motivation, Managing

  8. Principles and practices of risk management 

  9. Principles and practices of outdoor stewardship 

  10. Activity-specific practice sessions appropriate to fitness and group goals

  11. Development and interpretation of Skill-Related Physical Fitness Components involved in outdoor activities