Each year focuses on a different adventure topic, skill and/or environment. Topics may include therapeutic adventure, multi-cultural and international recreation and adventure pursuits, and eco-psychology in outdoor adventure. Skills include wilderness search and rescue, desert and canyon backpacking and sea kayaking conducted as a field-based expedition during Winterim or Spring Break. To familiarize students with new and unique adventure environments, may involve traveling to a distant location, such as Baja, Mexico or the southwest United States. There is a course fee for field-based skill topics. May be repeated more than once with a different topic. Springs. Prerequisite(s): AP 2210 and permission of the instructor; Adventure Education majors or minors; proper clothing for the course environment.