RE 191

Entry Paper Work Sheet

Name: Emily Sherek
Date: 2/4/15
Minor or electives or cluster minor: German
Semester and year you declared this major: Fall 2014
Anticipated Graduation date: May 2018
Content Development: Answer the following question as thoughtfully from your current
perspective.
1. What do you see as your current strengths as an Outdoor Recreation Leadership and
Management (OLRM) major?
Right now really just that I am good at appreciating the outdoors and getting other people
outside. I know it is important and I want to help other people be connected with nature.
2. What do you see as your current challenges (weakness) as an OLRM major?
I have had too much personal experience yet.
3. What will you do in the future to improve OLRM skills?
Take courses that will develop my skill. Take advantage of opportunities to learn new skills.
Learn whenever I can.
4. In what OLRM areas would you most like to improve?
I think I am lacking in outdoor technical skills and I would really like to learn.

5. A. Identify what you believe to be your present competency level in each of the following
academic skills: Rate yourself on a scale of 1 10; 1 being week 10 being strong. Then list
examples.
Outdoor Skills (technical skills sets evolving aspects of adventure activities)

5 I dont have a lot of technical skills at this point I am hoping to develop them through classes
in the program
Human Skills (the ability to work with others as a leader/ group member /communicator)
8 I work well in groups. I had to lead campers and other counselors at a camp which required a
lot of communication skills
Educational Skills (the ability to teach, facilitate, and motivate others increasing their
knowledge base in OLRM related topics)
7 I feel comfortable teaching others

B. Rate yourself on the following cognitive abilities: (same scale)

1. Critical/analytical thinking: 8
2. Clear reasoning/understanding: 9
3. Mathematical skills 7
4. Scientific [id the type of science(s)]: 6 biology/environmental science
5. Analogical (ability to discern similarities in some respects between things otherwise
unlike): 7
6. Metaphorical (ability to compare using a word or phrase associated with one thing to
apply

to another - e.g. "all the world's a stage"): 6

7. Creative thinking: 8
8. The ability to speak with reasonable proficiency in or about the discipline: 7
9. The ability to read with reasonable proficiency in or about the discipline: 8
10. The ability to write with reasonable proficiency in or about the discipline: 8
11. The ability to comprehend the literature in or about the discipline: 9
12. The ability to comment articulately concerning the literature in or about the discipline
8

RE 291 A. List at least three (3) different types of employment available to a graduate with a
degree in Outdoor Recreation Leadership and Management.