WGS 2000 - Risk, Resilience and Rock Climbing

Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem
Course Fee: $50.00
Course Fee Purpose: Cover the costs of equipment replacement and maintenance, consumable materials, licensure examinations, or to meet specific regulatory requirements. Examples of course fee expenditures for this course include climbing shoes, harnesses, helmets, climbing rope, and climbing holds.
Description: This course will explore the intersections of rock climbing, interpersonal and intrapersonal growth, and women and gender studies. We will ignite conversations about safety, trust, risk taking, transcending fear, resiliency, and healthy community building. These conversations will be embodied through practical kinesthetic climbing skills. We will also look at power and privilege in the climbing world and ways in which we can expand the field to be more inclusive, intersectional, and accessible to people from a variety of backgrounds. We will look at climbers who are changing the field, as well as engage media that tackle these and further topics.