COR 331 WILDERNESS AND ADVENTURE THERAPY
This course will introduce students to the skills needed to successfully facilitate therapeutic wilderness and adventure experiences by exploring the concepts and practices underpinning these approaches. A broad spectrum of theory, research, and current applications for wilderness and adventure therapy will be discussed and investigated, including how outdoor experiences can reduce stress, restore attention, enhance self-concept, and promote personal meaning. The course will focus on the use of these therapies to restore, remediate, and/or rehabilitate individuals with various illnesses and/or disabilities. Students will be assigned a fictional case study, and will develop throughout the course a corresponding therapy plan incorporating studied techniques as the capstone project.
Course Types
Core Interdisciplinary Seminar
Notes
This course is writing intensive and has a mandatory study abroad component. Open to students in the third or fourth year of study.