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Orienteering

Course code

TSK6039.LT

old course code

TSK6039

Course title in Estonian

Orienteerumine

Course title in English

Orienteering

ECTS credits

2.0

Assessment form

assessment

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

Create prerequisites to acquire basic knowledge in different disciplines of orienteering. Create possibilities to develop practical skills through explaining rules and regulations of competitions, preparation of routes, organizing events.

Brief description of the course

Nature of orienteering, different disciplines and development. Orienteering and notation tools, technical elements. Organizing events, explaining rules and regulations of competitions, planning routes for different disciplines and ages of participants. Practical experience as a judge, route planner. Analyses of event organization.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- knows main orineteering and notation tools (maps, compass) and can use them;
- knows main principles of different disciplines of orienteering;
- understands rules and regulations of the competitions of different disciplines;
- is able to participate orienteering route using different technical elements;
- is able to apply teaching methods of orienteering;
- can organize orienteering events of different types, apply different starting types;
- can act as judge and route planner;
- can analyze organization of events and compliance of routes to competition classes.

Teacher

lektor Elo Saue

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