BA (Hons) - Outdoor Education (Accelerated Two Year Degree)

Year one

• Outdoor education in the UK (Origins)
  Explores how the story of outdoor education is rooted in historical and cultural shifts in society during the 18th and 19th centuries; including land reform, the industrial revolution, the emerging class system, the Romantic Movement, scientific discoveries and the expansion of the British Empire.
• The Outdoor Professional
  To provide students with the skills and techniques necessary to access a range of outdoor land and waterscapes and to recognise the opportunities offered by these in differing environmental conditions for the purposes of recreation, personal development, research and education.
• Outdoor Education 1 (Expeditions) and Outdoor Education 2 (Creative Responses)
  Two modules aiming to explore an approach to Outdoor Education which focuses on the educational value of learning through outdoor expeditions and then explore relationships between art, culture and the environment, and the factors that influence people’s responses to the outdoors.
• Introduction to Cultural and Social Contexts
  Offers students an introduction to different critical sociological concepts and theories in order to explore historical and contemporary inequalities and future possibilities for outdoor education.
• Understanding the Environment
  Explores how we understand the ecological and physical environment by employing a variety of ways and approaches to learning; e.g. experiential, sensory, experimental, investigative, conceiving different environments over different temporal and spatial scales.
• Exploring Lake District Landscapes
  Explores the events that have shaped the cultural and perceptual landscapes. Using field visits, it delves into the rich cultural history of this region looking at how working practices, perceptual preferences and land protection have changed over time.
• Leading Educational Groups Outdoors
  Aims to enhance the confidence and capabilities of students in leading educational groups outdoors. Learning will be informed by theoretical frameworks and research evidence to support autonomous, safe and creative professional practice.
• Research Skills
  Aims to enhance the confidence and capabilities of students in leading educational groups outdoors. Learning will be informed by theoretical frameworks and research evidence to support autonomous, safe and creative professional practice.
• Learning Away
  Overnight trips - residential experiences, camps and journeys – are a long-standing approach to Outdoor Education. During this module students will design and lead sessions that make the most of overnight experiences and local landscape.
• Health, Wellbeing, and Environmental Health
  Enables students to explore and examine relationships between ecological, social and personal health and well-being in varied environmental settings.

Year two

• Placement Research
  Provides an opportunity to develop research skills and gain valuable experience in a professional context.
• Outdoor Education 3 (Place-based)
  Aims to encourage a deeper understanding of place-based outdoor education theory through involvement in specific outdoor disciplines, over time, utilising the opportunities afforded through relationship with place and knowledge of environmental and seasonal conditions.
• International Outdoor Education
  Examining Outdoor Education strategies and practices in other cultures and environments can reveal things about that culture and our own. At the same time, it can provide inspiration for new practices.
• Outdoor Education for the Future
  Issues of social and environmental justice are global and threaten emergencies that challenge our current way of life. How will outdoor education respond to these 21st Century challenges we face?
• Therapeutic Opportunities
  Aims to critically explore nature-connectedness in the context of well-being. It will investigate the complexity surrounding the concepts of nature and culture and explore how our understanding influences therapeutic opportunities.
• Commerce and Employment in the Outdoor Sector
  The aims of the module are to develop students’ understanding of the outdoor sector in terms of the range of employment opportunities and to foster the relevant skills, knowledge and insights required to progress within it whilst being able to adapt to change.