Metaskills for Outdoor Practitioners (BSE535)

BSE535 Metaskills for Outdoor Practitioners puts together a strand of higher-order cognitive skills to provide outdoor practitioners the resources to perform their profession effectively. Metaskills including advanced facilitation, multiphase problem-solving, experience-based judgment, among others, will be discussed in class. Study materials in the course will be extracted from book chapters and supplemented with readings in the extant literature.

• Advanced Facilitation
• Effective Communication
• Experience-Based Judgment
• Multiphase Problem Solving
• Decision Making

• Develop an understanding of metaphoric transfer from adventure to daily life.
• Develop an understanding of the mechanisms underlying effective communication.
• Justify if good judgment necessarily comes from experience.
• Evaluate the relationship between experience-based judgment, decision-making, and problem solving.
• Evaluate divergent and convergent processes of decision making.
• Develop personal narratives of judgment and decision making to systematically solve real world problems.