Course Rationale

The BA Adventure Education Degree has been running at Chichester since 2000

Already we have evidence that the course is well respected by both practitioners working in the field who have been mentors for our students during their placement year, and the academic community.
The degree focuses on establishing links between theory and practice. In most modules students generate academic understanding before placing this in a practical context. The staff teaching team endorses the understanding that personal growth can occur through adventurous activities. This might be the development of technical skills in the traditional outdoor pursuits, or increases in personal attributes such as self-confidence, teamwork or self-esteem. Increasingly, adventure is being used in a diversity of settings, with more and more sectors of society recognizing it as a recreational past time or a developmental medium.

                 

   
The degree has three central themes running through it; the ‘individual in the adventure environment’, the ‘group in the adventure environment’, and the ‘adventure environment’. Through these students reflect on their past experiences, laying down a framework for the understanding of new adventure experiences. To become effective adventure facilitators it is essential that practitioners are able to plan purposeful activities by actualising their intended outcomes rather than leaving them to chance.

The Course

The BA (hons) Adventure Education degree adheres to the University’s modular scheme; students take four modules each semester.

 
Semester One

Introduction to Group Processes in Adventure Education.

The Philosophy of Adventure Education.
Introduction to the Analysis of Water Based Activities.
Introduction to Adventure Education.
 
Semester Two

Introduction to the Analysis of Land Based Activities.
Introduction to Physiology.
Introduction to Psychological Issues in Adventure Education.
Introduction to the Analysis of Movement in Adventure Education.
 
Semester Three

Adventure Environments 1.
Managing Groups in the Adventure Environment.
Psychology of Skill Acquisition in the Adventure Environment.
Management Issues in Adventure Programming.
 
Semester Four

Research and Enquiry in Adventure Education.
Applied Meteorology in the Adventure Environment.
Adventure Environments 2.
Free Choice Elective
 
Semester Five

Applied Water Based Research
Environmental Exercise Physiology.
Adventure Environments 3.
Dissertation.
 
Semester Six

Dissertation.
Dissertation.
Analysis of Land Based Activities.
Adventure Sport Videography/Free Choice Elective.

                      

A range of free choice electives are available.  These may be used to tailor your degree towards your specific exit route requirements. For further information about free choice electives please contact P.Bunyan@chi.ac.uk

Online Prospectus for

For more information on the BA Hons Adventure Education degree, go to the On-line Prospectus