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.

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.

Program Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the Outdoor Leadership and Recreation Technology degree 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 103 - Principles of Animal Biology SC2 3 Credit Hour(s)
COM 115 - Public Speaking 3 Credit Hour(s)
ENG 131 - Technical Writing I CO1 3 Credit Hour(s)
or
ENG 121 - English Composition I CO1 3 Credit Hour(s)
ENV 101 - Environmental Science with Lab SC1 4 Credit Hour(s)
MAT 107 - Career Math 3 Credit Hour(s)

Total Credit Hours: 16

Additional Required Courses

HWE 103 - Community First Aid & CPR 1 Credit Hour(s)
NRE 236 - Public Relations of Natural Resources 2 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 108 - Wilderness Survival Skills 3 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 134 - Wilderness Ethics 2 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 135 - Risk Management for Outdoor Professionals 1 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 143 - Backpacking 2 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 eighteen (18) credit hours from the list below

Electives

BIO 111 - General College Biology I with Lab SC1 5 Credit Hour(s)
BIO 221 - Botany with Lab SC1 5 Credit Hour(s)
BUS 115 - Introduction to Business 3 Credit Hour(s)
CUA 101 - Food Safety & Sanitation 2 Credit Hour(s)
CWB 110 - Introduction to Web Authoring 3 Credit Hour(s)
ECO 245 - Environmental Economics SS1 3 Credit Hour(s)
EMS 115 - Emergency Medical Responder 3 Credit Hour(s)
GEO 111 - Physical Geography: Landforms with Lab SC1 4 Credit Hour(s)
GEO 112 - Physical Geography: Weather, Climate and Ecosystems with Lab SC1 4 Credit Hour(s)
GEY 108 - Geology of U.S. National Parks SC2 3 Credit Hour(s)
GEY 111 - Physical Geology with Lab SC1 4 Credit Hour(s)
HIS 121 - United States History to Reconstruction HI1 3 Credit Hour(s)
HIS 207 - American Environmental History HI1 3 Credit Hour(s)
HIS 225 - Colorado History HI1 3 Credit Hour(s)
HWE 129 - Wilderness First Responder 4 Credit Hour(s)
MAN 216 - Small Business Management 3 Credit Hour(s)
MGD 102 - Introduction to Multimedia 3 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 102 - Backcountry Navigation 1 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 108 - Wilderness Survival Skills 3 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 109 - Winter Wilderness Survival Skills 2 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 144 - Backcountry Cooking 1 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 156 - Survival Plants in the Summer I 2 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 167 - Basic Search & Rescue 3 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 168 - Avalanche Safety I 1 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 211 - Mountaineering Leadership 4 Credit Hour(s)
ZOO 117 - Biodiversity & Conservation 3 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