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✽ OUT 144 - Backcountry Cooking 1.0 Credits
Focuses on menu planning, nutritional requirements for wilderness camping, and meal preparations. Includes cooking a backcountry meal.
Prev. Course Codes: PER-161
LEC 15 Clock hours
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✽ OUT 146 - Nordic Skiing 1.0 Credits
Provides the student with the fundamental skills of nordic skiing. Emphasizes skiing technique, conditioning, safety, and equipment. The course incorporates classroom and activity sessions. Conditioning in the fitness center and trips to local ski areas are covered. Students must complete a health waiver.
Prev. Course Codes: PED-131
LAB 30 Clock hours
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✽ OUT 147 - Telemark Skiing 1.0 Credits
Co-requisites OUT 148 and OUT 215
The skills of telemark, or backcountry nordic skiing techniques used on beginning to intermediate terrain, safe and efficient backcountry ski travel, leadership, and judgment development will be emphasized.
Prev. Course Codes: OUT-147
LECLB 22.5 Contact hours
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✽ OUT 148 - Telemark Skiing II 1.0 Credits
This course provides instruction in intermediate telemark skiing techniques. Topics include ski travel on intermediate terrain. Safe and efficient backcountry telemark skills, judgement, leadership, communication, group handling, and telemark ski technique will be emphasized.
LAB 30 Clock hours
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✽ OUT 149 - Alpine Skiing I 1.0 Credits
Presents a basic Alpine skiing course designed for those who have had little or no prior downhill skiing experience. The course will consist of a combination of on-the-snow classes at an established ski area and classroom instruction at the college. For purposes of instruction, students will be assigned to small groups based on their present skiing ability. All on-snow instruction will be by certified ski instructors employed by the ski area.
Prev. Course Codes: PED-141
LAB 30 Clock hours
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✽ OUT 150 - Alpine Skiing II 1.0 Credits
Presents an advanced skiing course designed for students who are ready for advanced instruction in parallel skiing. The course will consist of a combination of on the snow classes at an established ski area and classroom instruction at the college. Students will be divided into small groups and assigned to instructors based on demonstrated skiing ability. All on snow instruction will be by certified ski instructors employed by the ski area.
LAB 30 Clock hours
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✽ OUT 151 - Snowshoeing 1.0 Credits
Emphasizes the basic skills, equipment, clothing, and techniques of snowshoeing. It includes the objective dangers involved with winter recreation.
Prev. Course Codes: PED-132
LAB 30 Clock hours
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✽ OUT 152 - Snowboarding I 1.0 Credits
Serves as a basic snowboarding course designed for those who have had little or no prior snowboarding experience. Incorporates a combination of on the snow classes at an established ski area and classroom instruction at the college. For purposes of instruction, students are assigned to small groups based on their snowboarding ability. Snow instruction is taught by certified ski instructors.
Prev. Course Codes: PED-152, PAC-116, PAC-119, PED-133
LAB 30 Clock hours
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✽ OUT 153 - Snowboarding II 1.0 Credits
Prerequisites: OUT 152 with a grade of C- or higher.
Introduces advanced snowboarding designed for those with prior snowboarding experience and can link skidded turns with good speed and control on green and blue terrain. Covers a combination of on the snow classes at an established ski area and classroom instruction at the college. Students are assigned to small groups based on their present snowboarding ability. Snow instruction is taught by certified ski instructors.
Prev. Course Codes: PED-154, PAC-118, PAC-119C, PED 134
LAB 30 Clock hours
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OUT 154 - Backcountry Snowboarding 1.0 Credits
Backcountry snowboarding skills and control techniques will be covered in this course. An introduction to the skills of carving and negotiating backcountry terrain, freestyle, and moguls will also be taught. Students will learn how to travel safely and efficiently in the backcountry environment. Outdoor leadership and group handling will be emphasized.
Prev. Course Codes: OUT-128
LECLB 22.5 Contact hours
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✽ OUT 155 - Ski Mountaineering 1.0 Credits
Prerequisites: OUT 115 or OUT 168 or OUT 269 with a grade of C- or higher.
This course provides students with an introduction to foundational knowledge and skills necessary to meet the challenges and enjoyment of skiing or snowboarding backcountry slopes. Using alpine touring, telemark, or snowboard gear students will learn techniques for ascending and descending peaks safely and efficiently. The course also focuses on judgment, decision-making, and leadership in ski mountaineering.
Prev. Course Codes: PED-209
LECLB 22.5 Clock hours
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✽ OUT 156 - Survival Plants in Summer I 2.0 Credits
Introduces the student to the summer season genus and species recognition of wild useful plants (edible, medicinal, poisonous, and tool-craft) in all life zone categories (alpine, sub-alpine, mountain, foothill, and desert) of Colorado. Other topics covered will be summertime identification challenges, macro and micro environments, dangerous lookalikes, and soils, latitudinal and elevational effects. Note: The Survival Plant series of classes can be taken in any order because each course academia is seasonal specific and not nomenclature specific.
LECLB 45 Clock hours
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✽ OUT 164 - Alpine Rescue: Snow, Ice, Crevasse 2.0 Credits
An intensive field course covering rescue in alpine environments. Students will review patient assessment, treatment, and evacuation. Students will have an opportunity to review rope-work, anchor systems, rappelling, ascending, and belaying. In a backcountry alpine setting students will learn the challenging techniques of crevasse, and snow and ice rescue. Specific attention will be placed on safe travel techniques, escaping belays, lowering, and uphauls. Students will participate in a mock rescue situation, challenging their knowledge of patient assessment and their abilities to perform a safe, quick response to a rescue in a wilderness setting. Must hold a current Wilderness First Responder certification or a current EMT-Basic certification and have experience with climbing and rope handling. This course has a fee that may be non-refundable. Please see the registration staff for more information.
LECLB 45 Contact hours
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✽ OUT 165 - Climbing Self Rescue 2.0 Credits
Prerequisites: OUT 212 or OUT 213 or OUT 221 or OUT 222 ; or Instructor Permission.
Informs climbers how to confidently handle vertical rescue scenarios ranging from simple to complex in a two-to-three person climbing team. Scenario-based instruction will cover technical lowers and raises of the injured climber, pick-offs, knot passes, and load transfers. This course does not intend to teach first aid practices for climbers but instead focuses on the technical skills necessary for a climbing party to extract an injured climber from a vertical setting.
LECLB 45 Contact hours
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✽ OUT 166 - High Angle Rescue 2.0 Credits
An intensive rigging course that addresses rescue in vertical terrain. The course will review safety systems, anchor systems, and lowering/uphaul systems. Scenario-based instruction will cover technical lowers and uphauls of the injured climber, guidelines, pickoff, third man medical, and other practical high-angle rescue techniques. This course has a fee that may be non-refundable. Please see the registration staff for more information.
LECLB 45 Clock hours
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✽ OUT 167 - Basic Search and Rescue 3.0 Credits
Covers the basic fundamentals required for search and rescue in a wilderness environment. Includes tracking techniques and field trips.
Prev. Course Codes: PED-167
LECLB 67.5 Clock hours
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✽ OUT 168 - Level 1 Avalanche Training 1.0 Credits
This course introduces the latest terms, technology and practices in the field of avalanche safety. Topics discussed include different types of avalanches, avalanche terrain, avalanche rescue, trip planning and gathering field observations. Emphasis is placed on using the avalanche bulletin to make sound terrain decisions. This course meets the American Avalanche Association Recreational Level 1 Avalanche Course guidelines.
Prev. Course Codes: OUT-160, PER-152
LECLB 24 Contact hours
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OUT 175 - Special Topics 1.0 - 6.0 Credits
Provides students with a vehicle to pursue special topics of interest. The content of this course is designed on an as needed basis to provide current, up-to-date information.
LEC 15 Contact hours per credit
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✽ OUT 187 - Cooperative Education Internship 1.0 - 6.0 Credits
Provides students an opportunity to gain practical experience in applying their occupational skills and/or to develop specific skills in a practical work setting. The instructor will work with the student to select an appropriate work site, establish learning objectives a, and to coordinate learning activities with the employer or work site supervisor. Provides work experience for students to gain practical work experience related to their educational program.
Prev. Course Codes: OUT-130B, OUT-280, REC-221, REC-258
COOP 45 Clock hours
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✽ OUT 201 - Scuba Diving 1.0 Credits
Prerequisites: PED 200 with a grade of C- or higher.
Provides basic instruction in scuba diving. Focuses on the knowledge and skills related to swimming and snorkeling, diving equipment, communications, the environment, safety, dive tables, and other pertinent information a student needs for safe scuba diving. This course prepares the student for open water (PADI) certification.
Prev. Course Codes: PED-1662, PAC-143, PAC-151H PED-129
LAB 30 Clock hours
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OUT 209 - Backcountry Winter Travel 1.0 Credits
Introduces backcountry travel skills on alpine touring, telemark, and/or splitboard equipment. Ascending and descending techniques on low angle terrain are emphasized with additional time spent practicing transitions to and from climbing skins. Proper layering, weather considerations, and preparing daily route plans will also be taught as the group learns how to travel safely and efficiently in a non-avalanche winter backcountry environment.
LECLB 22.5 Contact hrs
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✽ OUT 210 - Kayak Touring Leadership 4.0 Credits
Provides basic and intermediate sea kayaking skills. Students will learn boating skills, kayaking packing, safety evaluation and avoidance, navigation, terminology, basic paddle strokes, bracing, launching and landing in flat water, marine communication protocols, deep water wet exits and assisted/unassisted wet entries, safe and efficient kayak touring, leadership and judgment related to sea kayaking, rough water capsize procedures, towing, launching and landing in moderate surf, tides and currents, rough water assisted/unassisted entries, Eskimo rolls, Maritime Rules of the Road, teaching techniques, safety, group management on the water, rescue, transporting injured boaters, and ethics. You must be at least 17 years old on the first day of class to take this course.
Prev. Course Codes: OUT 230
LECLB 90 Contact hours
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✽ OUT 211 - Mountaineering Leadership 4.0 Credits
Prerequisites: Prior completion of OUT 112 or OUT 114 with a grade of C- or higher.
This course covers beginning through intermediate skills required for technical mountaineering in an alpine environment. Topics include land navigation, route finding, hiking, techniques necessary for safe and efficient technical mountain travel, rope and steep snow climbing, crevasse rescue, and glacier travel techniques. Interpersonal topics including mountaineering leadership, communication, group handling, and the development of judgment relating to groups traveling in the mountain environment will be emphasized. Students will also develop knowledge, techniques, approaches, and methodology for teaching and leading safe mountaineering expeditions.
Prev. Course Codes: OUT 232
LECLB 90 Contact hours
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✽ OUT 212 - Rock Climbing Leadership 4.0 Credits
A multi-day rock climbing course for Outdoor Recreation Leadership majors. This course includes developing skills in beginning and intermediate rock climbing techniques on a variety of rock media; rope handling; knots; rappelling and rescue techniques; safety procedures; rock site management; top rope and lead climbing anchor placements; top belay; sling-shot belay; and mock-lead climbing; equipment care, use, and maintenance; and communication, group handling, and judgment in the context of rock climbing. Students will also develop knowledge, techniques, approaches, and methodology for teaching and leading all aspects of rock climbing expeditions. Emphasis will be on safety and judgment in teaching and leading rock climbing activities.
Prev. Course Codes: OUT 234
LECLB 90 Contact hours
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✽ OUT 213 - Ice Climbing Leadership 4.0 Credits
Develops the knowledge, ability and leadership skills necessary to instruct and safely lead a group on an ice climbing experience.
Prev. Course Codes: OUT 236
LECLB 90 Contact hours
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✽ OUT 214 - Backcountry Winter Travel Leadership 4.0 Credits
Develops student knowledge, ability, and leadership skills necessary to lead a group on a winter backcountry ski and/or snowboarding travel experience with a focus on safety.
LECLB 90 Contact hours
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✽ OUT 215 - Whitewater Paddling Leadership 4.0 Credits
Develops the knowledge and skills necessary to instruct and safely lead a group on a whitewater paddling experience using either whitewater rafts or kayaks. You must be at least 17 years old on the first day of class to take this course.
Prev. Course Codes: OUT 240
LECLB 90 Contact hours
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OUT 216 - Challenge Course Facilitation 2.0 Credits
This course provides approaches to challenge course management including construction and maintenance of high and low elements, facilitation and group dynamics, risk management and safety, and challenge course philosophies.
LECLB 45 Contact hours
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✽ OUT 218 - River Orientation II 2.0 Credits
Prerequisites: OUT 116 or OUT 121 minimum grade C- or higher; or instructor permission. Minimum age 17.
This course provides advanced-level experience in whitewater raft handling and water reading skills through direct experiences on selected rivers. Students will learn advanced rafting techniques, river trip planning, advanced river safety procedures, equipment, logistics, camp management, hazard evaluation, minimum impact techniques, and the natural history of river environments. Added emphasis will be placed on approaching material from the professional river guide’s perspective. Minimum age 17.
LAB 60 Contact hours
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OUT 219 - Packrafting I 2.0 Credits
Introduces students to the art and techniques of packrafting. Topics include packraft techniques (paddling, backpacking, and travel skills with packrafts), river and land navigation, safety & risk management, river & back-country etiquette, leadership & decision making, permitting and access considerations, LNT (Leave No Trace) principles, and gear choices & selection (lightweight, ultralight, & gear management skills). Appropriate natural and cultural history will be addressed during the course as well as management agencies related to the terrain encountered.
LAB 60 Contact hours
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OUT 220 - Trail Design & Construction 1.0 Credits
Introduces students to sustainable trail design and construction processes. Basic forces and relationships affecting the overall trail experience will be explored as students also develop an understanding of the volunteer management process and other partnerships involved in building multi-use trails. Students will build a section of a trail and learn the different concepts around trail maintenance and how to properly handle trail building tools. Sustainable design and construction principles will be considered and applied throughout.
LECLB 22.5 Contact hours
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✽ OUT 221 - Top Rope Climbing 1.0 Credits
Introduces basic top rope rock climbing skills, techniques, and physical fitness. The student will learn the basic principles of top rope climbing, how to select the appropriate equipment, anchor construction, climbing movement, safety, communication, and etiquette.
LAB 30 Contact hours
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✽ OUT 222 - Sport Climbing 1.0 Credits
Introduces sport climbing principles, lead climbing techniques, and problem-solving skills. Emphasizes sound judgment, decision-making skills, group dynamics, and personal safety.
LAB 30 Contact hours
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OUT 224 - Equipment Repair for Outdoor Professionals 1.0 Credits
Provides in-depth instruction in both field repairs and professional permanent repairs of equipment used in the outdoor recreation industry. Common field applications and tools as well as sewing machine use will be covered.
LAB 30 Contact hrs
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✽ OUT 226 - Mountain Bike Leadership 2.0 Credits
Prerequisites: OUT 126 or equivalent with a grade of C- or higher.
Introduces students to the fundamentals of teaching and guiding beginning to intermediate mountain bikers. Leadership, group dynamics, and risk management themes are stressed as students improve their existing riding skills through a progression that will ready them to mentor novice and moderate riders. Bike styles, specifications, and components will be reviewed, and students will learn more advanced maintenance and repair skills required when teaching and guiding.
LECLB 45 Contact hours
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OUT 227 - Bikepacking I 2.0 Credits
Focuses on the techniques, skills, and tools of bikepacking. Topics include types of bikes, bikepacking bags, lightweight gear and gear choices, packing techniques and loading bikes, techniques for riding with packed bikes, and route planning. Specific attention will be given to leadership and decision making, risk management, backcountry etiquette, natural and cultural history of the area, and land agency permitting.
LAB 60 Contact hrs
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✽ OUT 238 - Telemark Skiing Leadership Block 4.0 Credits
Develops the knowledge, ability, and leadership skills necessary to safely lead a group on a backcountry telemark skiing experience.
LECLB 90 Clock hours
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✽ OUT 242 - Survival Skills 1.0 Credits
Covers the requirements for staying alive in the backcountry, including deserts and mountains. Topics include the psychology of crisis, individual and group responsibility, decision making, use of resources, and natural hazards.
Prev. Course Codes: OUT-031, OUT 210
LEC 15 Clock hours
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OUT 243 - Wilderness First Aid 1.0 Credits
Introduces wilderness medicine and basic life support skills. This course focuses on prevention, assessment, and treatment of environmental illnesses. Recognizing and stabilizing life threats caused from trauma, calling for a rescue, and organizing an evacuation in the event of a wilderness emergency are also covered.
Prev. Course Codes: HWE-120
LECLB 24 Contact hrs
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✽ OUT 244 - Wilderness First Responder 4.0 Credits
Focuses on the prevention, assessment, and treatment of injuries and illnesses common to backcountry travel as well as how to manage a rescue. The course introduces patient assessment, standards of care, team dynamics, and critical thinking used during wilderness emergencies. This course is intended for outdoor enthusiasts and professionals who travel, recreate, and work in remote environments.
Prev. Course Codes: EFA-145, HWE-129
LEC 45 Contact hrs LAB 30 Contact hrs
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OUT 245 - Wilderness First Responder Refresher 1.0 Credits
Meets the standards for recertification of a Wilderness First Responder certification. The refresher is required to maintain a current Wilderness First Responder certification, which must be recertified every three years.
Prev. Course Codes: HWE-130
LECLB 22.5 Contact hours
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OUT 246 - Wilderness Emergency Medical Services (WEMS) Program Orientation 0.5 Credits
Provides an orientation to the Wilderness Emergency Medical Services (WEMS) program. This course introduces methodologies and focuses on the roles and responsibilities of the wilderness professional rescuer. Topics include WEMS philosophy, methodologies, roles, responsibilities, jobs, leadership and teamwork, equipment, and an overall emphasis on how to model ideal characteristics of wilderness professional rescuers for successful workforce placement.
LEC 7.5 Contact hours
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OUT 264 - Wilderness Technical Rescue 1.0 Credits
This course provides students with the advanced skills needed for technical wilderness evacuation. The curriculum goes beyond the basic wilderness evacuation competencies commonly taught in a wilderness first responder or wilderness EMT course. Topics include: organizing, planning and managing technical rescues, common SAR knots and anchor systems, patient packaging for technical evacuations, rescue load lowering/raising systems and medical considerations for wilderness technical evacuations. Efficient and safe wilderness evacuation skills will be developed through a combination of lecture, lab, and challenging field scenarios.
LECLB 22.5 Clock hours
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OUT 268 - Avalanche Rescue 0.5 Credits
Introduces avalanche rescue practices and principles, emphasizing current search techniques and strategies for companion rescue. Topics discussed include avalanche rescue process and principles, avalanche rescue gear, and evacuation considerations. This course meets the American Avalanche Association Avalanche Rescue course guidelines.
LAB 8 Contact hours
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✽ OUT 269 - Level 2 Avalanche Training 1.0 Credits
Prerequisites: Prior completion of OUT 168 and OUT 268 with a grade of C or higher.
Enhances understanding of avalanche hazard, avalanche formation, avalanche release, and snowpack evaluation from Level I. This course emphasizes collection and interpretation of snowpack and weather data as well as communication, teamwork, and decision-making skills. This course meets the American Avalanche Association Recreational Level II Avalanche Course guidelines.
Prev. Course Codes: OUT-260, SAO-162, SAO-160, SAO-047, SAO-247AC, PED-154, OUT-169
LECLB 24 Contact hours
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OUT 275 - Special Topics 1.0 - 6.0 Credits
Provides students with a vehicle to pursue special topics of interest. The content of this course is designed on an as needed basis to provide current, up-to-date information.
Prev. Course Codes: OUT-290C, OUT-290B, OUT-290A
LEC 15 Contact hours per credit
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✽ OUT 287 - Internship: Outdoor Leadership 1.0 - 6.0 Credits
Provides work experience for students to gain practical work experience related to their educational program.
Prev. Course Codes: OUT-130A
COOP 45 Contact hours per credit
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✽ OUT 295 - Human Dimensions in Outdoor Recreation 3.0 Credits
This course is a survey of the interaction between humans and the environment with emphasis placed upon the management, leadership, ethics, and facilitation of the human/natural resource and outdoor recreation experience interface.
LECLB 67.5 Contact hours
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PAR 115 - Introduction to Law 3.0 Credits
Prerequisites: Requires college-level composition and reading placement.
Provides an understanding of the role of paralegals, issues facing paralegals, the working of the legal system, and ethical questions. Legal terminology and an overview of the substantive areas of law will be discussed.
LEC 45 Contact hours
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PAR 116 - Torts 3.0 Credits
Prerequisites: Requires college-level composition and reading placement.
Focuses on tort law, including negligence, intentional torts, and strict liability, with an emphasis on personal injury litigation.
LEC 45 Clock hours
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PAR 117 - Family Law 3.0 Credits
Prerequisites: Requires college-level composition and reading placement.
Emphasizes domestic law, common property, dissolutions, adoptions, legal separation, and other family law issues.
LEC 45 Clock hours
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PAR 118 - Contracts 3.0 Credits
Prerequisites: Requires college-level composition and reading placement.
Examines the basic principles of contract law.
LEC 45 Clock hours
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PAR 125 - Property Law 3.0 Credits
Prerequisites: Requires college-level composition and reading placement.
Focuses on real estate law, ownership, sale, leasing, financing and government regulation of land.
LEC 45 Clock hours
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PAR 127 - Legal Ethics 3.0 Credits
Prerequisites: Requires college-level composition and reading placement.
Explores the parameters of professional responsibilities and value systems for paralegals and related occupations.
LEC 45 Clock hours
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PAR 201 - Civil Litigation 3.0 Credits
Prerequisites: PAR 115 with a grade of C- or higher.
Focuses on an intensive study of the legal process including the Federal and Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure.
LEC 45 Clock hours
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PAR 206 - Business Organizations 3.0 Credits
Prerequisites: PAR 115 with a grade of C- or higher.
Focuses on the study of the major types of business organizations.
LEC 45 Clock hours
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PAR 213 - Legal Research & Writing I 3.0 Credits
Prerequisites: Requires college-level composition and reading placement.
Provides an introduction to legal research and writing.
LEC 45 Clock hours
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PAR 214 - Legal Research & Writing II 3.0 Credits
Prerequisites: Take PAR 213 with a grade of C- or higher.
Serves as an advanced course in legal research and writing.
LEC 45 Clock hours
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PAR 287 - Cooperative Education 3.0 Credits
Prerequisites: Requires college-level composition and reading placement.
Provides students an opportunity to gain practical experience in applying their occupational skills and/or to develop specific skills in a practical work setting. The instructor will work with the student to select an appropriate work site, establish learning objectives, and to coordinate learning activities with the employer or work site supervisor.
COOP 135 Clock hrs.
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PAR 289 - Capstone 3.0 Credits
Prerequisites: Requires college-level composition and reading placement.
Emphasizes a synthesis of the information and skills that students learned throughout their paralegal studies.
LEC 45 Contact hours
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PHT 111 - Introduction to Pharmacy 3.0 Credits
Introduces the practice of pharmacy and the work that pharmacy technicians perform. The course provides an overview of careers within the field; educational, certification and accreditation requirements; ethical and legal responsibilities; pharmacology; as well as a variety of issues that touch on attitudes, values and beliefs of successful pharmacy technicians.
LEC 45 Contact hrs
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PHT 112 - Pharmacy Law and Ethics 2.0 Credits
Introduces the laws, regulations and agencies that pertain to pharmacy practice and the role that technicians play to ensure compliance. Establishes a foundation of ethical behavior and decision making and discusses the consequences of violating laws and ethical principles.
LEC 30 Contact hrs
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PHT 113 - Pharmacy Calculations 1.0 Credits
Provides the pharmacy technician student with a math preview necessary for pharmaceutical calculations and reviews necessary pharmaceutical terminology.
LEC 15 Contact hrs
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PHT 114 - Computer Skills for Pharmacy Technicians 1.0 Credits
Introduces basic pharmacy and computer terminology and applications of a pharmacy management system. Focuses on the practice of pharmacy and the multiple operations that contribute to safe and effective patient care, and discusses the roles and responsibilities of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in computer-based systems. This course includes integration of an actual pharmacy operation application to allow hands-on technical experience.
LEC 15 Contact hrs
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PHT 115 - Pharmacology I 3.0 Credits
Prerequisites: PHT 111 with a grade of C- or higher.
Presents the fundamentals of pharmacology, the pharmacokinetic phases, and the basic concepts of normal body function. This course examines diseases which impact the various body systems and the drugs used to treat such diseases, emphasizing disease state management and drug therapy.
LEC 45 Contact hrs
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PHT 117 - Communication & Professionalism for Pharmacy Technicians 1.0 Credits
Provides fundamental components of theoretical and applied aspects of personal and interpersonal communication related to pharmacy practice. Theoretical aspects include such topics as communication perceptions and barriers, listening, responding, assertiveness and non-verbal communication. Applied aspects include such techniques as role-playing, group discussion and interviewing. This course also examines the methods and practice of interviewing with respect to the roles and functions of both interviewee and interviewer.
LEC 15 Contact hrs
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PHT 118 - Pharmacology II 3.0 Credits
Prerequisites: PHT 115 with a grade of C- or higher.
Examines the disease states which impact the various body systems and the drugs used to treat such diseases. This course emphasizes disease state management and drug therapy. Serves as the second part of the two-part presentation of the basic concepts of pharmacology.
LEC 45 Contact hrs
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PHT 170 - Clinical: 1.0 - 12.0 Credits
Prerequisites: PHT 113 , PHT 115 , and PHT 118 with a grade of C- or higher; or permission of the instructor.
Provides an opportunity for the completion of practical work experience related to the educational program.
COOP 45 Contact hrs per credit
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PHT 171 - Clinical: 1.0 - 12.0 Credits
Prerequisites: PHT 113 , PHT 115 , and PHT 118 with a grade of C- or higher; or permission of the instructor.
Provides an opportunity for the completion of practical work experience related to the educational program.
COOP 45 Contact hrs per credit
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PHT 205 - Certification Review 0.5 Credits
Prerequisites: PHT 113 , PHT 115 , PHT 118 , PHT 170 , and PHT 171 with a grade of C- or higher; or permission of the instructor.
Reviews requirements for the national pharmacy technician certification exam.
LEC 7.5 Contact hours
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PHT 207 - Drug Classification 3.0 Credits
Introduces the different ways drugs are classified. This course examines the drug development process, dosage forms, and routes of administration.
LEC 45 Contact hours
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PHT 235 - Pharmaceutical Calculations & Compounding Techniques 4.0 Credits
Prerequisites: PHT 113 , PHT 115 , and PHT 118 with a grade of C- or higher; or permission of the instructor.
Develops the skills necessary to perform calculations essential to the duties of pharmacy technicians in a variety of contemporary settings. This course also applies these skills in hands-on compounding of pharmaceutical products emphasizing the importance of accuracy, quality and infection control.
LEC 60 Contact hrs
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PHT 250 - Sterile Compounding and Aseptic Technique 2.0 Credits
Prerequisites: PHT 113 , PHT 115 , and PHT 118 with a grade of C- or higher; or permission of the instructor.
Provides overview of methods and regulation of sterile products as well as instruction and training for the mastery of aseptic technique and the successful production of sterile preparations. This course prepares students for passing process validation checklists and provides comprehensive coverage of all procedures and techniques related to the skill sets necessary for sterile compounding.
LEC 30 Contact hrs
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◆ PHI 111 - Introduction to Philosophy (GT-AH3) 3.0 Credits
Prerequisites: Requires college-level composition and reading placement.
Introduces significant theoretical and practical questions and emphasizes understanding the meaning and methods of philosophy. Includes: the human condition, logic, reality, knowledge, freedom, history, ethics, and religion. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH3 category.
Prev. Course Codes: PHI-151
LEC 45 Contact hours
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◆ PHI 112 - Ethics (GT-AH3) 3.0 Credits
Prerequisites: Requires college-level composition and reading placement.
Examines human life, experience, and thought in order to discover and develop the principles and values for pursuing a more fulfilled existence. Theories designed to justify ethical judgments are applied to a selection of contemporary personal and social issues. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH3 category.
Prev. Course Codes: PHI-152
LEC 45 Clock hours
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◆ PHI 113 - Logic (GT-AH3) 3.0 Credits
Prerequisites: Requires college-level composition and reading placement.
Studies effective thinking using language-oriented logic. Provides tools and develops skills for creative and critical thinking and the formal analysis of arguments. Emphasizes the development of decision-making and problem-solving. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH3 category.
Prev. Course Codes: PHI-153
LEC 45 Contact hours
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◆ PHI 114 - Comparative Religions (GT-AH3) 3.0 Credits
Prerequisites: Requires college-level composition and reading placement.
Introduces students to the similarities and differences among concepts predominant in the major world religions, comparing sociological, philosophical, and phenomenological similarities between major world faiths. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH3 category.
Prev. Course Codes: PHI-115
LEC 45 Clock hours
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◆ PHI 115 - World Religions - West (GT-AH3) 3.0 Credits
Prerequisites: Requires college-level composition and reading placement.
Introduces the student to the common and different concepts predominant in the major world religions. Includes sociological, political, psychological, and philosophical aspects of a variety of belief systems. Focuses on the concept of religion as a cultural system, and a way that people make sense of a complex world. Particular emphasis is placed on how myths, legends, and folk tales reveal religious concerns. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH3 category.
LEC 45 Contact hours
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◆ PHI 116 - World Religions - East (GT-AH3) 3.0 Credits
Prerequisites: Requires college-level composition and reading placement.
Emphasizes the diversity and richness of Eastern religions within a cross-cultural context. Concepts such as fate, reincarnation, enlightenment, and morality are analyzed. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH3 category.
LEC 45 Contact hours
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✽ PHI 117 - Psychology of Religion 3.0 Credits
Prerequisites: Requires college-level composition and reading placement.
Focuses on the application of psychological principles and theories to religious phenomena, including religious practices, beliefs, and rituals. Introduces an historical appreciation of psychologists’ attempts to understand religion, continues with an exploration of select theories, and concludes with an analysis of modern problems and future directions.
LEC 45 Clock hours
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✽ PHI 124 - Introduction to Islam 3.0 Credits
Prerequisites: Requires college-level composition and reading placement.
Introduces the Islamic religious tradition and considers its significance in the modern world. The course investigates the history of Islam, Islamic beliefs and practices, Islamic sects, Sufism, and contemporary issues of Islamic extremism, women in Islam, and Islam in the West.
LEC 45 Contact hours
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PHI 175 - Special Topics 1.0 - 6.0 Credits
Prerequisites: Requires college-level composition and reading placement.
Provides students with a vehicle to pursue special topics of interest. The content of this course is designed on an as needed basis to provide current, up-to-date information.
Prev. Course Codes: PHI-270PE
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◆ PHI 214 - Philosophy of Religion (GT-AH3) 3.0 Credits
Prerequisites: Requires college-level composition and reading placement.
Focuses on the critical examination of the fundamental concepts, ideas, and implications of religion. Includes the nature of God, the varieties of religious experience, argument concerning God’s existence, the Problem of Evil, faith and reason, religion and human destiny, and the connection between religion and ethics. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH3 category.
Prev. Course Codes: PHI-145
LEC 45 Clock hours
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◆ PHI 218 - Environmental Ethics (GT-AH3) 3.0 Credits
Prerequisites: Requires college-level composition and reading placement.
Analyzes theories of the value of the natural world. Topics may include the relation between scientific and moral principles; theories of the moral worth of persons, animals, plants, and other natural objects; historical, religious, and cultural influences on conceptions of nature; alternative accounts of human relationships and responsibilities to nature; and the connection between moral and political values and economic policies. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH3 category.
LEC 45 Clock hours
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◆ PHI 220 - Philosophy of Death & Dying (GT-AH3) 3.0 Credits
Prerequisites: Requires college-level composition and reading placement.
Explores the major philosophical questions surrounding death and dying, the metaphysical arguments for and against the existence of the soul, life after bodily death, the major ethical theories and their relation to issues of physician-assisted suicide, care for the dying, the grieving process, death as expressed in aesthetics and contemporary society, as well as the existential contributions concerning meaning of life and the meaning of death. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH3 category.
LEC 45 Clock hours
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✽ PHI 250 - Eastern Wisdom 3.0 Credits
Prerequisites: Requires college-level composition and reading placement.
Covers fundamental theories of Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Muslim metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics focusing on the development of Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Shintoism as well as Islam’s development in the East.
LEC 45 Clock hours
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PHI 275 - Special Topics 1.0 - 6.0 Credits
Prerequisites: Requires college-level composition and reading placement.
Provides students with a vehicle to pursue in-depth exploration of special topics of interest.
LEC 15 Contact hours per credit
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✽ PED 101 - Conditioning Lab 1.0 Credits
Offers an independent self-paced format of conditioning exercises to meet individual needs. Emphasizes the value of lifetime fitness and its contribution to achieving personal health and wellness. Students utilize cardio-respiratory, muscular strength, and endurance exercises to promote positive changes in health-related fitness components.
Prev. Course Codes: PED-112
LAB 30 Clock hours
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✽ PED 102 - Weight Training I 1.0 Credits
Offers basic instruction and practice in weight training. Students utilize weight training equipment in accordance with their abilities and goals. Emphasizes weight training equipment orientation, correct lifting techniques, and basic program design for men and women.
Prev. Course Codes: PAC-196A, PAC-196, PAC-151Q, PED-116
LAB 30 Clock hours
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✽ PED 103 - Weight Training II 1.0 Credits
Prerequisites: PED 102 with a grade of C- or higher.
Offers guided instruction and independent practice in weight training for men and women. Students practice various weight training techniques in accordance with their abilities. Emphasizes physiological considerations, equipment orientation, correct lifting techniques, program design, and nutrition.
Prev. Course Codes: PAC-197, PAC-152Q
LAB 30 Clock hours
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✽ PED 105 - Fitness Circuit Training 1.0 Credits
Examines a number of different circuit training programs. Emphasizes the development of cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and a healthy body composition to meet individual needs.
LAB 30 Clock hours
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✽ PED 120 - Aerobics I 1.0 Credits
This level of aerobic exercise increases the student’s aerobic endurance and further explains the components of aerobic conditioning. Charting and developing cardiovascular rates is stressed.
Prev. Course Codes: PAC-167, PED-217
LAB 30 Clock hours
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✽ PED 122 - Step Aerobics 1.0 Credits
Introduces basic step aerobics and exercise techniques to improve physical fitness. Emphasizes the basic principles of step aerobics including the effects upon the cardio-respiratory system and skeletal muscles, various step patterns, and choreography.
Prev. Course Codes: PED-121
LAB 30 Clock hours
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✽ PED 125 - Ski Conditioning 1.0 Credits
This is an individual conditioning program that builds both aerobic and muscle strength and promotes flexibility for the student planning to participate in either alpine or nordic skiing.
Prev. Course Codes: PAC-113, PAC-121, PAC-151, PED-206
LAB 30 Clock hours
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✽ PED 129 - Zumba 1.0 Credits
Zumba is a compilation of high energy, motivating music with unique moves and choreography combinations. Zumba fuses Latin and International music and dance themes to create a dynamic, exciting, effective fitness system. The routines feature aerobic/fitness interval training with a combination of fast and slow rhythms that tone and sculpt the body. Zumba utilizes the principles of fitness interval training and resistance training to maximize caloric output, fat burning, and total body toning. It is a mixture of body sculpting movements with easy to follow dance steps.
Prev. Course Codes: PED-233
LAB 30
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✽ PED 139 - Beginning Telemark Skiing 1.0 Credits
Provides instruction in the basic techniques of the telemark turn on gentle terrain using cross country skis.
Prev. Course Codes: PED-148, PAC-110, PAC-107, PAC-151CT
LAB 30 Clock hours
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✽ PED 141 - Pilates Matwork I 1.0 Credits
Focuses on Pilates matwork to increase core strength, overall muscle tone, and flexibility with focused and precise floor work techniques. A physical education class built upon the philosophies and exercises of Joseph Pilates.
Prev. Course Codes: PED-145
LAB 30 Clock hours
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✽ PED 142 - Pilates Matwork II 1.0 Credits
Prerequisites: PED 141 with a grade of C- or higher.
Builds upon the philosophies and exercises of Joseph Pilates. Pilates Matwork is a prerequisite, as this course builds upon basic techniques learned therein. Core strength, flexibility, overall muscle tone and balance are the goals of the matwork.
Prev. Course Codes: PED-245
LAB 30 Clock hours
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✽ PED 143 - Yoga I 1.0 Credits
Offers guided instruction in yoga. Students practice yoga according to their individual fitness levels and abilities. Emphasizes enhancing general health and well-being through the performance of yoga strength, flexibility, balance and relaxation techniques and exercises.
Prev. Course Codes: PAC-201, PAC-151R, PED 147
LAB 30 Contact hours
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