Outdoor Leadership & Recreation Technology, AAS

Additional information available on the Outdoor Leadership and Recreation Department website.

Recommended basic skills courses are

College Readiness in English
College Readiness for Quantitative Literacy

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

COM 2220 - Group Communication SS3 3 Credit Hour(s)
COM 2250 - Organizational Communication 3 Credit Hour(s)
ENG 1031 - Technical Writing I CO1 3 Credit Hour(s)
ENV 1111 - Environmental Science with Lab SC1 4 Credit Hour(s)
MAT 1140 - Career Math 3 Credit Hour(s)
or
MAT 1160 - Financial Mathematics 3 Credit Hour(s)
REC 1000 - Introduction to Recreation 2 Credit Hour(s)

Total Credit Hours: 18

Additional Required Courses

COM 1250 - Interpersonal Communication SS3 3 Credit Hour(s)
or
COM 2300 - Intercultural Communication SS3 3 Credit Hour(s)
or
MAR 1060 - Customer Service 3 Credit Hour(s)
or
PSY 1005 - Psychology of Workplace Relationships 3 Credit Hour(s)
HWE 1005 - American Heart Association Heartsaver First Aid CPR and AED 0.5 Credit Hour(s)
MGD 1002 - Introduction to Multimedia 3 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 1010 - Wilderness Survival Skills 3 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 1020 - Backcountry Navigation 1 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 1080 - Wilderness Emergency Medical Services Program Orientation 0.5 Credit Hour(s)
or
OUT 1125 - Mountain Orientation 2 Credit Hour(s)
or
OUT 1130 - Desert Orientation 2 Credit Hour(s)
or
OUT 1135 - Canyon Orientation 2 Credit Hour(s)
or
OUT 1330 - River Orientation 2 Credit Hour(s)
or
OUT 1385 - Scuba Diving 1 Credit Hour(s)
or
OUT 1510 - Rock Climbing I 2 Credit Hour(s)
or
OUT 1685 - Snow Orientation 2 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 1087 - Cooperative Education Internship 3 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 1120 - Backpacking 2 Credit Hour(s)
or
OUT 1530 - Technical Canyoneering 2 Credit Hour(s)
or
OUT 1540 - Challenge Course Facilitation 2 Credit Hour(s)
or
OUT 1550 - Mountaineering 3 Credit Hour(s)
or
OUT 1570 - Basic Search & Rescue 3 Credit Hour(s)
or
OUT 2002 - Open Water Diver 1 Credit Hour(s)
or
OUT 2330 - River Orientation II 2 Credit Hour(s)
or
OUT 2510 - Rock Climbing II 2 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 1200 - Wilderness Ethics 2 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 1205 - Leave No Trace Trainer Cert 2 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 1210 - Risk Management for Outdoor Professionals 1 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 2044 - Wilderness First Responder 4 Credit Hour(s)
OUT 2200 - Naturalist Training 3 Credit Hour(s)
REC 2011 - Outdoor Leadership 2 Credit Hour(s)
or
PRA 2018 - Outdoor Leadership 3 Credit Hour(s)
REC 2012 - Outdoor Recreation Programming 3 Credit Hour(s)
Electives - Choose ten (10) credit hours from the list below

Total Credit Hours: 44.5

Electives

All courses with NRE, OUT, PRA, or REC prefixes

ACC 1001 - Fundamentals of Accounting 3 Credit Hour(s)
ACC 1015 - Payroll Accounting 3 Credit Hour(s)
ACC 1021 - Accounting Principles I 4 Credit Hour(s)
ACC 1022 - Accounting Principles II 4 Credit Hour(s)
ACC 1025 - Computerized Accounting 3 Credit Hour(s)
ACC 1031 - Income Tax 3 Credit Hour(s)
AGY 2140 - Introductory Soil Science SC1 4 Credit Hour(s)
ANT 1001 - Cultural Anthropology SS3 3 Credit Hour(s)
ANT 1005 - Biological Anthropology with Laboratory SC1 4 Credit Hour(s)
ANT 2115 - Native Peoples of North America SS3 3 Credit Hour(s)
ANT 2130 - Sex, Gender & Culture SS3 3 Credit Hour(s)
ANT 2545 - Anthropology of Energy 3 Credit Hour(s)
ARA 2011 - Arabic Language III 3 Credit Hour(s)
ARA 2012 - Arabic Language IV 3 Credit Hour(s)
ART 1204 - Landscape Drawing I 3 Credit Hour(s)
ART 1305 - Landscape Painting 3 Credit Hour(s)
ART 1701 - Handbuilt Clay I 3 Credit Hour(s)
ART 1702 - Handbuilt Clay II 3 Credit Hour(s)
ART 2407 - Landscape Photography 3 Credit Hour(s)
ASL 1123 - American Sign Language III 5 Credit Hour(s)
ASL 1125 - Fingerspelling 3 Credit Hour(s)
ASL 2221 - American Sign Language IV AH4 3 Credit Hour(s)
AST 1110 - Planetary Astronomy with Lab SC1 4 Credit Hour(s)
AST 1140 - Astronomy of Ancient Cultures SC2 3 Credit Hour(s)
BIO 1003 - Principles of Animal Biology SC2 3 Credit Hour(s)
BIO 1004 - Biology: A Human Approach SC1 4 Credit Hour(s)
BIO 1048 - Basic Ecology 4 Credit Hour(s)
BUS 1015 - Introduction to Business 3 Credit Hour(s)
BUS 2003 - Introduction to International Business 3 Credit Hour(s)
BUS 2016 - Legal Environment of Business 3 Credit Hour(s)
CHI 2011 - Chinese Language III 3 Credit Hour(s)
CIS 1018 - Introduction to PC Applications 3 Credit Hour(s)
CIS 1055 - Complete Spreadsheets: (Software Package) 3 Credit Hour(s)
CIS 1065 - Complete Presentation Graphics 3 Credit Hour(s)
CIS 2067 - Management of Information Systems 3 Credit Hour(s)
COM 1150 - Public Speaking 3 Credit Hour(s)
COM 2060 - Listening in a Workplace Communication Setting 1 Credit Hour(s)
COM 2063 - Conflict Resolution 1 Credit Hour(s)
CSL 2050 - Motivational Interviewing I 1.5 Credit Hour(s)
CSL 2054 - Trauma Informed Care 1 Credit Hour(s)
CSL 2065 - Culturally Informed Treatment 1 Credit Hour(s)
ECE 1031 - Guidance Strategies for Young Children 3 Credit Hour(s)
ECE 1911 - School Age Theory & Practice 3 Credit Hour(s)
ECE 1925 - School Age Lab Techniques 3 Credit Hour(s)
ECE 2051 - Nutrition, Health & Safety 3 Credit Hour(s)
ECE 2101 - Working with Families & Communities 3 Credit Hour(s)
ECE 2381 - ECE Child Growth & Development 3 Credit Hour(s)
ECE 2401 - Administration of Early Childhood Care & Education Programs 3 Credit Hour(s)
ECE 2621 - Curriculum Development: Methods & Techniques 3 Credit Hour(s)
ECO 2045 - Environmental Economics SS1 3 Credit Hour(s)
EDU 2221 - Effective Teaching 1 Credit Hour(s)
EDU 2341 - Multicultural Education 3 Credit Hour(s)
EMS 1015 - Emergency Medical Responder 3 Credit Hour(s)
ENG 1021 - English Composition I CO1 3 Credit Hour(s)
ENG 1022 - English Composition II CO2 3 Credit Hour(s)
ENG 1032 - Technical Writing II 3 Credit Hour(s)
ENG 2001 - English Composition III CO3 3 Credit Hour(s)
ENP 1005 - Introduction to Entrepreneurship 3 Credit Hour(s)
ENV 1010 - Natural Disasters SC2 3 Credit Hour(s)
ETH 2024 - Introduction to Chicano Studies 3 Credit Hour(s)
FIN 1060 - Consumer Economics 3 Credit Hour(s)
FIN 2010 - Principles of Finance 3 Credit Hour(s)
FRE 2011 - French Language III AH4 3 Credit Hour(s)
FRE 2012 - French Language IV AH4 3 Credit Hour(s)
FST 2058 - Wildland Fire Incident Management & Organization 3 Credit Hour(s)
FST 2059 - Wildland Firefighting Strategy & Tactics 3 Credit Hour(s)
FSW 1000 - S-190 Introduction to Wildland Fire Behavior 1 Credit Hour(s)
FSW 1001 - S-130 Firefighting Training 2 Credit Hour(s)
FSW 1053 - S-290 Intermediate Wildland Fire Behavior 2 Credit Hour(s)
GEO 1005 - World Regional Geography SS2 3 Credit Hour(s)
GEO 1012 - Physical Geography: Weather, Climate and Ecosystems with Lab SC1 4 Credit Hour(s)
GER 2011 - German Language III AH4 3 Credit Hour(s)
GER 2012 - German Language IV AH4 3 Credit Hour(s)
GEY 1108 - Geology of U.S. National Parks SC2 3 Credit Hour(s)
GEY 1135 - Environmental Geology with Lab SC1 4 Credit Hour(s)
GEY 2205 - Geology of Colorado 3 Credit Hour(s)
HIS 1220 - United States History Since the Civil War HI1 3 Credit Hour(s)
HIS 2015 - 20th Century World History HI1 3 Credit Hour(s)
HIS 2105 - Women in U.S. History HI1 3 Credit Hour(s)
HIS 2110 - African American History HI1 3 Credit Hour(s)
HIS 2115 - American Indian History HI1 3 Credit Hour(s)
HIS 2125 - American Environmental History HI1 3 Credit Hour(s)
HIS 2130 - History of the American West HI1 3 Credit Hour(s)
HIS 2135 - Colorado History HI1 3 Credit Hour(s)
HIS 2145 - U.S. History Since 1945 HI1 3 Credit Hour(s)
HUM 1023 - Modern World AH2 3 Credit Hour(s)
HUM 2011 - Cultural Diversity in the Humanities 3 Credit Hour(s)
HWE 1050 - Human Nutrition 3 Credit Hour(s)
HWE 2060 - Exercise, Nutrition & Body Composition 3 Credit Hour(s)
IND 2703 - Sustainable Design 3 Credit Hour(s)
ITA 2011 - Italian Language III AH4 3 Credit Hour(s)
ITA 2012 - Italian Language IV AH4 3 Credit Hour(s)
JOU 1021 - Photojournalism 3 Credit Hour(s)
JPN 2011 - Japanese Language III AH4 3 Credit Hour(s)
JPN 2012 - Japanese Language IV AH4 3 Credit Hour(s)
MAN 1017 - Time Management 1 Credit Hour(s)
MAN 1025 - Team Building 1 Credit Hour(s)
MAN 1028 - Human Relations in Organizations 3 Credit Hour(s)
MAN 2016 - Small Business Management 3 Credit Hour(s)
MAN 2046 - Critical Issues in Marketing & Management 3 Credit Hour(s)
MAR 2049 - Strategic Marketing 3 Credit Hour(s)
MAT 1260 - Introduction to Statistics MA1 3 Credit Hour(s)
MET 1050 - General Meteorology with Lab SC1 4 Credit Hour(s)
MGD 1017 - Introduction to Visual Communications 3 Credit Hour(s)
MGD 1056 - Emergent Media Practices 3 Credit Hour(s)
MGD 2042 - Web Architecture: Open Source Design 3 Credit Hour(s)
PAR 1115 - Introduction to Law 3 Credit Hour(s)
PAR 1116 - Torts 3 Credit Hour(s)
PAR 1118 - Contracts 3 Credit Hour(s)
PAR 2206 - Business Organization Law 3 Credit Hour(s)
PHI 1013 - Logic AH3 3 Credit Hour(s)
PHI 2005 - Business Ethics AH3 3 Credit Hour(s)
PHI 2018 - Environmental Ethics AH3 3 Credit Hour(s)
PHO 1020 - Fundamentals of Photography 3 Credit Hour(s)
PHO 2187 - Business of Photography 3 Credit Hour(s)
PHY 1105 - Conceptual Physics with Lab SC1 4 Credit Hour(s)
PSY 2332 - Psychology of Adjustment 3 Credit Hour(s)
PSY 2440 - Human Growth & Development SS3 3 Credit Hour(s)
PSY 2661 - Brain & Behavior 3 Credit Hour(s)
RUS 2011 - Russian Language III AH4 3 Credit Hour(s)
RUS 2012 - Russian Language IV AH4 3 Credit Hour(s)
SCI 1056 - Integrated Science II-Earth & Life Sciences with Lab SC1 4 Credit Hour(s)
SOC 2007 - Environmental Sociology SS3 3 Credit Hour(s)
SOC 2018 - Sociology of Diversity SS3 3 Credit Hour(s)
SOC 2031 - The Sociology of Deviant Behavior SS3 3 Credit Hour(s)
SPA 1009 - Spanish for Travelers 2 Credit Hour(s)
SPA 1015 - Spanish for the Professional I 3 Credit Hour(s)
SPA 2001 - Conversational Spanish III 3 Credit Hour(s)
SPA 2002 - Conversational Spanish IV 3 Credit Hour(s)
SPA 2011 - Spanish Language III AH4 3 Credit Hour(s)
SPA 2012 - Spanish Language IV AH4 3 Credit Hour(s)
SPA 2015 - Spanish for the Professional II 3 Credit Hour(s)
SWK 1050 - Application of Group Counseling 3 Credit Hour(s)
SWK 1060 - Introduction to Alcohol & Drugs 3 Credit Hour(s)
SWK 2010 - Human Behavior in the Social Environment I 3 Credit Hour(s)
TRI 1001 - Introduction to Translation & Interpretation 3 Credit Hour(s)
TRI 1003 - Ethics for Translation & Interpretation 2 Credit Hour(s)
TRI 2001 - Consecutive Interpretation I 3 Credit Hour(s)
TRI 2002 - Simultaneous Interpretation I 3 Credit Hour(s)
TRI 2003 - Sight Translation 3 Credit Hour(s)
WQM 1000 - Introduction to Water Quality 3 Credit Hour(s)
WQM 1015 - Water Sources & Supplies 3 Credit Hour(s)
WQM 2012 - Drinking Water Regulations 4 Credit Hour(s)
ZOO 1020 - Biodiversity & Conservation 3 Credit Hour(s)
ZOO 1030 - Animal Behavior 3 Credit Hour(s)
ZOO 1410 - Invertebrate Zoology 4 Credit Hour(s)
ZOO 1510 - Fish Husbandry & Aquaria Management 4 Credit Hour(s)
ZOO 1610 - Herpetology 4 Credit Hour(s)
ZOO 1710 - Bird Husbandry 4 Credit Hour(s)
ZOO 1811 - Ungulates-The Hoofed Mammals 2 Credit Hour(s)
ZOO 1815 - Wild Cats-Conservation & Management 2 Credit Hour(s)
ZOO 1816 - Wild Canids 2 Credit Hour(s)
ZOO 1817 - Bats: An Introduction 2 Credit Hour(s)
ZOO 2410 - Aquatic & Terrestrial Invertebrate Husbandry 4 Credit Hour(s)
ZOO 2610 - Reptile & Amphibian Husbandry 4 Credit Hour(s)

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