Spring 2027

Current Topics in Outdoor Pursuits

Introduces current outdoor activities to prepare students for teaching these topics.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Michael Norris

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.96 GPA, 95.7% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.89 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.75 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Select and facilitate activities for emotionally, socially, and physically safe outdoor education experiences across the lifespan

  • Assess natural, cultural, and historical factors for implementing environmentally sound outdoor education experiences and demonstrated in the facilitation and organization assignments

  • Know and use the constructs for primary outcomes of group development activities in outdoor pursuits such as communication, respect for diversity, team effectiveness, shared situational leadership, problem-solving, and trust

  • Develop an awareness of seasonal and geographic outdoor pursuit topics which are presentable based on weather, terrain, skill, and the developmental levels of the students and assessed through the discussion forum and the organization assignment

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.75 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

MICHAEL NORRIS is recorded teaching in Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.96 GPA, 95.7% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.89 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.75 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Safe outdoor education activity selection and facilitation
  • Environmental, cultural, and historical assessment for outdoor education
  • Group development dynamics in outdoor pursuits
  • Seasonal and geographic considerations for outdoor topics

Skills

  • Facilitating safe outdoor education activities
  • Assessing environmental factors for outdoor education
  • Applying group development constructs in outdoor settings

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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KINES 327 · Spring 2027

Current Topics in Outdoor Pursuits

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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