Overview

Learn the intricacies of teaching outdoor and adventure activities to young people

Our highly-practical BA (Hons) Outdoor and Adventure Education course allows you to develop your skills and abilities in various outdoor and adventure activities. You will consider psychological and physiological impacts of these activities, as well as how to use them to educate and coach children and young people.

The course offers modules that focus on developing personal performance in key activities like climbing, surfing, canoeing and kayaking with optional modules to cater for broader tastes like scuba diving and forest schools. As you progress through the degree you can specialise in the coaching, teaching, or applied psychology of adventure sports, as well as the physiological effects of these activities and the extreme environments they often take place in. The course has been running for over 20 years, making it one of the longest running courses of its type in the UK.

On this course you will:

• Enrol on the only validated four year Outdoor and Adventure Education degree in the UK.
• Develop your skills in a variety of outdoor and adventure sports and activities alongside fundamental pedagogical theories.
• Choose to specialise in the coaching, teaching, psychological impacts, or physiological effects of adventure activities and sports.
• Take part in our dedicated one year work placement option that allows you to go anywhere in the world.
• Join the only programme in the UK that offers regular residential trips in addition to normal contact hours.

Assessment

You will typically study four modules each semester with each module worth 15 credits to gain 120 credits to complete each academic level. Modules are assessed usually at the end of each semester with most modules having at least two modes of assessment.

Careers

Become fully prepared for a wide range of careers in the outdoors and related fields

We understand the importance of ensuring that you have the knowledge, skills and experience to compete successfully in today’s challenging jobs market. Our focus on theory in practice ensure that our BA (Hons) Outdoor and Adventure Education are prepared for a wide variety of career routes. Teaching is a popular graduate destination in the UK and abroad, as is performance coaching and entrepreneurship in the outdoor sector, with small but growing numbers of graduates successful in setting up their own adventure-based business.

Potential career options include:

• Education and teaching
• Adventure tourism
• Recreation and leisure management
• Risk management
• Conservation management
• Harbour Master
• The police

Further study

Many graduates have continued with their studies gaining Master’s Degrees in physiology, psychology and education. Some graduates have also gained scholarships for doctoral studies leading to lecturing in Higher Education and research in the UK and overseas. Alumni receive a 15% discount on postgraduate courses at Chichester.