Outdoor Leadership - University of Alaska Anchorage

Program Overview

Welcome to Valdez, Alaska! We are arranged in a standout amongst the most epic areas on the planet. The Outdoor Leadership system is a two year degree program concentrated on educating the abilities expected to travel and work in the dynamic tourism, enterprise film, and campaign administration fields. PWSC's Valdez grounds is situated in an open air heaven, with chances to film, ski, fish, knapsack, kayak, and investigate common settings right outside the entryways.

The PWSC/University of Alaska Outdoor Leadership Program in Valdez gives an unparalleled instructive open door. The PWSC Outdoor Leadership (ODS) degree is the in the first place, and just, to offer Adventure Filmmaking as a full program of study; and besides, it was created with meeting with University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to be straightforwardly transferable into their Bachelors of Arts in Film.

The Associate of Applied Science Degree in Outdoor Leadership is a 66-credit hour degree program. Notwithstanding 12 hours of general instruction necessities and industry-driving crisis restorative preparing, the ODS degree gives a standout amongst the most thorough, connected preparing programs in the field of open air administration through direction and practice inside of one or a greater amount of three essential center ranges: Adventure Filmmaking, Adventure Tourism, and the Expedition Specialist. This degree gets ready understudies for quick vocation in the outside amusement industry and is recompensed after the base of sixty six(66) credit hours and a GPA of 2.0 or higher has been fulfilled.

With cautious arranging, ODS understudies can broadly educate in more than one focus, giving them a doubly capable instructive experience.

Understudies center their studies by selecting one of the accompanying center territories:

Enterprise Tourism�
Enterprise Filmmaking�
Endeavor Specialist : Professional Alpine Leader�

Reasonable Warning

Understudies in the ODS program must be exceptionally energetic. Courses must be taken as outlined and on-time to guarantee auspicious AFSA Basecamp2graduation. Understudies hoping to fiddle with Outdoor Studies are invited to take some of our courses as electives, as passable; however to accomplish the ODS degree, you must be arranged, trained, and prepared to buckle down. In the event that this doesn't seem like you, we prescribe that you concentrate somewhere else or for an alternate degree. Any understudy might take some of our courses, yet certain courses are for ODS (or generally qualified) understudies as it were.

A Few Words About Risk

Danger is a piece of life. We all take a consistent movement of dangers consistently. All things considered, we each are dependable to pick which hazards we regard proper inside of our lives. The ODS project is not intended for each understudy, and there are various inborn dangers that we take.

Moreover:

A large portion of our courses require great physical condition and capacity to perform easily in to a great degree frosty and/or severe climate.

Understudies might need to lease or buy extra hardware for courses.
Multi-day overnight trekking and outdoors is required.
ODS courses will be sporadically completed over uneven territory, regularly without a trail, and might incorporate stream intersections or different perils, contingent upon course and travel logistics.
Understudies must be arranged to spend long days in possibly cruel territory, with various natural worries to moderate, including bears, mosquitos, moose, wolves, waterways, tides, climate, temperature, and so forth.
Because of the rough and testing nature of our courses, potential understudies would be insightful to consider whether this project is a fit.

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