Canadian Mountain Studies Initiativewww.mountains.ualberta.ca

INTD 280 The Mountain World: An Introduction to Interdisciplinary Mountain Studies

• Lower-level introductory course• Open to all UofA students• Team-taught by an ecologist, a glaciologist, a

physiologist, and a historian• Presently has students from 8 different faculties

enrolled

• Condensed 7-day course• Held in the remote mtn setting• Partnership with The Alpine

Club of Canada

INTD 284 Mountain Backcountry Field Skills

In Development

• Mountain Studies and Skills in the European Alps: A two-week Study Abroad Course held in partnership with the University of Innsbruck

• Mountains 101 – A new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to be launched in the fall of 2016. Produced in partnership with Parks Canada, MEC, and the ACC

• Certificate in Mountain Studies - a small suite of courses, which can be embedded in any degree program or a taken alone. It would require courses from across the disciplines and a field experience.