Students spend an entire ski season at their Coop site as a culminating experience of the Ski Area Management Program. Students are placed at ski resorts and are trained in areas of career interest. The students are compensated as coop interns and receive their training as outlined in a training agreement. Students are evaluated during the course of their training by their immediate supervisor and coop coordinator. Students submit periodic reports and a comprehensive final report to the coordinator during the course of the training period.
- Teacher: Josh Bremer
- Teacher: Jim Vanderspoel
This course consist of on-the-job training for students enrolled in the Ski Area Management program. Career related tasks related to the ski industry take place at Mt Zion Ski area. All work and training will be concerned with preseason maintenance and preparedness for the upcoming ski season.
- Teacher: Josh Bremer
- Teacher: Jim Vanderspoel
This course will cover risk management and related issues of concern to the ski industry. Topics include: risk management and functions; insurance coverages; liability issues; record keeping; employee training; skier education; and designing and implementing a good risk managment plan. Resource persons are utilized in the coursework.
- Teacher: Josh Bremer
- Teacher: Jim Vanderspoel
Designed to give students basic knowledge of constructional and operational costs involved in designing and implementing a ski resort complex. Topics covered are: constructional costs, operational expenses, labor cost and control, projected revenues, profit and loss statements. This course is a basic feasibility study.
- Teacher: Josh Bremer
- Teacher: Jim Vanderspoel
This course will introduce students to basic technology regarding the care and maintenance of ski equipment. The major orientation of this course will revolve around the ski rental & repair department of a ski resort. This class will provide potential rental department supervisors or technicians with basic knowledge and skills relating to employment in this department. Topics include: rental repair shop design and layout; shop efficiency; purchasing; tools; inventory; ski boot, and binding systems compatibility; equipment repair techniques; ski tuning; binding mounting; function testing; shop liability; record keeping.
- Teacher: Josh Bremer
- Teacher: Jim Vanderspoel
Provides an introduction to design and construction of the most common types of ski lifts. Topics to be covered include: lift design; construction; operations and maintenance procedures; record keeping; and various regulatory agencies. The coursework also includes a study of the ANSI B77 (American National Standard) safety requirements for aerial passenger tramways.
- Teacher: Josh Bremer
- Teacher: Jim Vanderspoel
An introduction to the design and layout of a ski resort's base and mountain zones. Planning for indoor and outdoor space allocation is studied. The balancing of skier capacity to lift, trail capacity, and other support facilities is studied. Geologic, hydrologic, economic, environmental factors and other pertinent topics to resort development are also considered.
- Teacher: Josh Bremer
- Teacher: Jim Vanderspoel
A course designed to give the student an insight into the US ski industry, past, present, and future. Topics include: US ski industry history and growth; market surveys; types of resort ownership; management, its functions and organization; ski industry organizations such as, NSAA and MSAA. Guest lecturers are utilized as resource persons.
- Teacher: Josh Bremer
- Teacher: Jim Vanderspoel
Provides an introduction to design and construction of the most common types of ski lifts. Topics to be covered include: lift design; construction; operations and maintenance procedures; record keeping; and various regulatory agencies. The coursework also includes a study of the ANSI B77 (American National Standard) safety requirements for aerial passenger tramways.
- Teacher: Josh Bremer
- Teacher: Jim Vanderspoel