Outdoor Leadership & Recreation Technology, AAS

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Are you interested in exploring your passion, developing your outdoor skills, gaining leadership experience, or finding employment doing what you love? The world of careers is open to students pursuing an Outdoor Leadership and Recreation Technology degree. From guiding mountaineering trips in the Colorado Rockies to teaching environmental education courses to presenting wildlife programs at local nature centers, this program provides background education in a wide scope of industry career paths.

This two-year AAS degree includes a variety of certification classes, hands-on learning opportunities and a diverse elective list allowing students to enhance outdoor skills in their specific area of interest. Training emphases include outdoor leadership, field studies, group dynamics, risk management, web design, 114 Degree & Program Requirements wilderness skills, and low-impact techniques for environmental stewardship. To enhance the learning process, students will utilize their education by applying skills developed within the program to an internship of their choosing.

Non-degree seeking students can complete one or more of the four certificate options, learning specialized outdoor skills in shorter period of time. Coursework completed in certificate options may be applied to the Outdoor Leadership and Recreation Technology degree.

Students may complete academic deficiencies concurrently with the beginning courses in the program. Students must arrange with advisors to remedy deficiencies in program requirements. Students not meeting a course prerequisite must have instructor permission to enroll.

Learning outcomes: Upon completion of the Outdoor Leadership and Recreation Technology program, students should be able to:

Exhibit mastery of outdoor leadership and recreational technical skills
Exhibit competent and ethical leadership in an outdoor environment
Communicate effectively and professionally with clients and other community members
Assess potential environmental impacts of recreation activity
Discuss, explain and implement relevant environmental conservation practices

General Education Courses

BIO 148 - Basic Ecology 4 Credit Hour(s)
or
ENV 101 - Environmental Science with Lab SC1 4 Credit Hour(s)
CIS 118 - Introduction to PC Applications 3 Credit Hour(s)
or
CSC 105 - Computer Literacy 3 Credit Hour(s)
COM 115 - Public Speaking 3 Credit Hour(s)
or
COM 214 - Natural Resource Interpretation & Communication 3 Credit Hour(s)
ENG 131 - Technical Writing I 3 Credit Hour(s)
or
BUS 217 - Business Communication & Report Writing 3 Credit Hour(s)
MAT 107 - Career Math 3 Credit Hour(s)

Total Credit Hours: 16

Additional Required Courses

HWE 129 - Wilderness First Responder 4 Credit Hour(s)
NRE 236 - Public Relations of Natural Resources 2 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 108 - Wilderness Survival Skills 3 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 128 - Outdoor Sports Conditioning 1 Credit Hours
OUT 134 - Wilderness Ethics 2 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 135 - Risk Management for Outdoor Professionals 1 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 136 - Leave No Trace Trainer Cert. 2 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 168 - Avalanche Awareness Level I 1 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 187 - Cooperative Education Internship 3 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 211 - Mountaineering Leadership 4 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 289 - Capstone 4 Credit Hour(s)
REC 100 - Introduction to Recreation 2 Credit Hour(s)
REC 211 - Outdoor Leadership 2 Credit Hour(s)
REC 212 - Outdoor Recreation Programming 3 Credit Hour(s)

Electives

Choose ten (10) hours from the list below

ACC 101 - Fundamentals of Accounting 3 Credit Hour(s)
BIO 221 - Botany with Lab SC1 5 Credit Hour(s)
BUS 115 - Introduction to Business 3 Credit Hour(s)
GEY 111 - Physical Geology with Lab SC1 4 Credit Hour(s)
HIS 225 - Colorado History HI1 3 Credit Hour(s)
MAN 216 - Small Business Management 3 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 106 - Map & Compass for the Outdoor Person 3 Credit Hours
OUT 109 - Winter Wilderness Survival Skills 2 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 110 - Caving I 1 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 111 - Caving II 1 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 112 - Mountain Orientation 2 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 113 - Desert Orientation 2 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 114 - Canyon Orientation 2 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 116 - River Orientation 2 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 119 - Flyfishing I 1 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 120 - Flyfishing II 1 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 126 - Mountain Biking 1 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 129 - Ice Climbing I 1 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 131 - Rock Climbing I 2 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 132 - Rock Climbing II 2 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 133 - Technical Canyoneering 2 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 137 - Kayaking 1 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 140 - Swift Water Rescue Tech I 1 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 144 - Backcountry Cooking 1 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 156 - Survival Plants in the Summer I 2 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 157 - Survival Plants in the Fall I 2 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 158 - Survival Plants in the Spring I 2 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 159 - Survival Plants: Rockies 1 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 160 - Survival Plants: Southwest 1 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 161 - Survival Plants: Summer II 3 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 162 - Survival Plants: Fall II 3 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 163 - Survival Plants: Spring II 3 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 167 - Basic Search & Rescue 3 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 169 - Avalanche Awareness Level II 2 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 201 - Scuba Diving 1 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 202 - Open Water Diver 1 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 216 - Challenge Course Facilitation 2 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 218 - River Orientation II 2 Credit Hour(s)

Academic Catalog

Outdoor Leadership & Recreation Technology, AAS

General Education Courses

Total Credit Hours: 16

Additional Required Courses

Electives

Total Credit Hours: 44

Total Credit Hours: 60