Red Cross Courses

Aquatics Aquatics

American Red Cross courses are available to current students, faculty, staff, alumni, community guests and their dependents. For more information about our American Red Cross Courses, check out the information below.

Enrollment Policy

The minimum enrollment for each course is 5 individuals, and the maximum enrollment varies by the course. We reserve the right to cancel any class that does not meet the minimum enrollment requirement.

Health and Safety Courses

Adult & Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED
Adult & Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED Full Course
- Blended Learning
- Course Length: ~2.5 hours for online content
- Spring 2025 Schedule: Monday, March 17 from 5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
- Purpose: This course helps participants recognize and respond appropriately to cardiac, breathing and first aid emergencies in adults, children, and infants and meets OSHA/workplace requirements. This course teaches skills that participants need to know to give immediate care to a suddenly injured or ill person until more advanced medical personnel arrive and take over.
Adult & Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED Recertification
- Spring 2025 Schedule: Saturday, February 8 from 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
- Course Requirement: must have a current American Red Cross Lifeguarding certification, or one expired by no more than 30 days.
- Purpose: The purpose of the recertification course is to give individuals the opportunity to review course content within a formal class setting. The format optimizes a participant's ability to successfully complete knowledge assessment and skills tests to recognize and respond appropriately to cardiac, breathing and first aid emergencies in adults, children, and infants and meets OSHA/workplace requirements. This course teaches skills that participants need to know to give immediate care to a suddenly injured or ill person until more advanced medical personnel arrive and take over.
Certification Requirements - Participants must:
- Successfully complete the online sessions (blended learning full course only).
- Attend and participate in all class sessions.
- Actively participate in all course activities, including assuming various roles during skill practices and assessment scenarios.
- Demonstrate competency in all required skills.
- Successfully complete all assessment scenarios.
- Minors under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a responsible guardian throughout the entirety of the course.
Lifeguarding Certification
Lifeguarding Full Course
- Blended Learning
- Certificate Issued: Lifeguarding/First Aid/CPR/AED
- Certification Valid: 2 years
- Course Length: ~6 hours online content
- Spring 2025 Skills Session Schedule:
  - Friday, April 11 from 5:15 p.m.-9 p.m.
  - Saturday, April 12 from 9 a.m.-7 p.m.
  - Sunday, April 13 from 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
    
    All skills sessions must be completed in order to obtain a Lifeguarding Certification
Purpose: The purpose of the Lifeguarding course is to teach the knowledge and skills needed to help prevent and respond to land and aquatic emergencies in both shallow water (less than 7 feet) and deeper water (7 feet or more). These skills include land and water rescue skills, recognition and response to cardiac, breathing, sudden illness, and first aid emergencies in adults, children, and infants first aid and resuscitation skills.

Lifeguarding Recertification
- Blended Learning
- Certificate Issued: Lifeguarding/First Aid/CPR/AED
- Certification Valid: 2 years
- Course Length: ~6 hours online content
- Course Requirement: Must have a current American Red Cross Lifeguarding certification, or one expired by no more than 30 days. Minors under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a responsible guardian throughout the entirety of the course.
- Spring 2025 Skills Session Schedule:
  - Saturday, April 5 from 9 a.m.-7 p.m.
    
    All skills sessions must be completed in order to obtain a Lifeguarding Certification
Purpose: The purpose of the Lifeguarding Recertification course is to review the knowledge and skills needed to help prevent and respond to land and aquatic emergencies in both shallow water (less than 7 feet) and deeper water (7 feet or more). These skills include land and water rescue skills, recognition and response to cardiac, breathing, sudden illness, and first aid emergencies in adults, children, and infants first aid and resuscitation skills.

Lifeguarding Prerequisites:
- Successful completion of prerequisites is required prior to both the full and review lifeguarding courses.
- Must be 15 years old on or before the final scheduled session of this course. Minors under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a responsible guardian throughout the entirety of the course.
- Must be able to demonstrate the following skills:
  1. Swim 150 yards using the front crawl, breaststroke or a combination of both, maintain position at the surface of the water for 2 minutes by treading water using only the legs, swim 50 additional yards using the front crawl or breaststroke or a combination of both. Swimming on the back or side is not permitted. Swim goggles are allowed.
  2. Complete a timed event, without goggles, within 1 minute, 40 seconds:
    
    Starting in the water, swim 20 yards with face in or out of the water.
    
    Surface dive, feet-first or head-first, to a depth of 10 feet to retrieve a 10 lb. brick and return to the surface.
    
    Swim on the surface 20 yards on the back to the starting point with both hands holding the brick and keeping the face at or near the surface to breathe.
    
    Exit the water without using a ladder or steps.
Lifeguarding Certification Requirements - Participants must:
- Complete all online course content in advance of the corresponding in-person skill sessions (blended learning courses only).
- Attend the entire course and participate in all class sessions.
- Actively participate in all course activities, including assuming various roles during skill practices, skill drills, activities and scenarios.
- Demonstrate proficiency in all skills.
- Pass the final written exam with a minimum grade of 80 percent.
- Pass the final skill assessments