Module JXH-1024:
Practical Land Based Skills
Practical Land Based Skills 2022-23
JXH-1024
2022-23
School Of Human And Behavioural Sciences
Module - Semester 1 & 2
10 credits
Module Organiser:
Llion Morris
Overview
Skills taught or practiced:-
1. Navigation including formative assessment opportunities via
unaccompanied walks. Night navigation.
2. Hillwalking within a mixed ability group (group skills)
3. Camping skills, choosing and carrying equipment. Cooking.
4. Indoor climbing skills including movement, bouldering, bottom roping, lead climbing, belaying, abseiling, climbing calls, climbing partner safety checks.
5. Risk assessing
6. Transferring skills from one environment to another.
7. Understanding the weather and how a forecast can be used to enable better use of the environment.
8. Mountain rescue and emergency procedures.
9. Route planning.
10. Self-reflection and goal setting.
Assessment Strategy
-threshold -To be awarded a pass mark (D-), students must be able to demonstrate, at a basic level of competence, that they can participate in a variety of land-based activities, within a group, without endangering themselves, that they can identify and respond to obvious environmental hazards and that they can conduct a rudimentary evaluation of their own level of skill, knowledge and understanding of one land-based activity. In text citations and reference list, formatting is not to departmental guidelines with multiple errors or omissions.NB. Practical sessions are compulsory. If they are missed without mitigating circumstances then they may fail the module.
-good -To be awarded B- or above, students must be able to demonstrate that they can participate in a variety of land-based activities, within a group, exercising good skills and judgement in respect of safety, that they can identify, prioritise and respond to most commonly encountered environmental hazards, and that they can evaluate, with a good degree of accuracy, their own level of skill, knowledge and understanding of one land based activity. In text citations and reference list, formatting is to departmental guidelines with some errors or omissions.
-excellent -To be awarded A- or above, students must demonstrate that they are consistently in complete control of their own safety when participating in a variety of land-based activities within a group, that they have a comprehensive understanding of environmental hazards and possess a full range of appropriate strategies for coping with them, and that they can evaluate, with a high degree of accuracy, their own level of skill, knowledge and understanding of one land based activity. In text citations and reference list, formatting is to departmental guidelines without errors or omissions.
Learning Outcomes
- Accurately self-evaluate their own level of skill, knowledge and understanding with respect to a land-based adventure activity.
- Identify, understand and adapt to the changing environmental hazards encountered while undertaking adventurous land-based activities.
- Participate safely, within a group, while undertaking a range of land-based activities.
Assessment method
Coursework
Assessment type
Summative
Description
Assignment 1
Weighting
50%
Due date
08/12/2022
Assessment method
Essay
Assessment type
Summative
Description
Assignment 2
Weighting
50%
Due date
27/04/2023