Program Overview
In this major, you'll focus on enhancing the quality of life, and providing social development for people, lifting them up, and creating stronger communities. You'll learn how to combine recreation operations, facilities, marketing, planning, and management to meet the needs of people of all ages and abilities. As a student in the recreation program, you'll spend your time doing what you love—and help others make the most of their free time.
Why This Program & What You'll Learn
Recreation is a vital part of health and wellness, but a lot of people find it hard to find time for themselves. As a recreation major, you'll help others learn the importance of finding that time.
You'll choose from one of three concentrations in this major: outdoor and environmental recreation, recreation and event management, and recreation therapy. Each concentration offers extensive opportunities for hands-on, service-learning-based projects and assignments to put your classroom knowledge to use. The unique natural resources of our region, such as 15 area parks, the Chippewa River, and the Great Lakes, offer many opportunities to gain professional skills and contacts through fieldwork, internships, and volunteering.
Students in the recreation and event management program, the first of its kind in Michigan, participate in community projects at sports and entertainment venues, corporate events, and county parks and recreation. Outdoor and environmental recreation students build leadership skills on our rock climbing wall and plan activities for camps and outdoor education programs. Our therapeutic recreation concentration gives you the knowledge, skills, and experience to become a nationally certified therapeutic recreation specialist providing recreational therapy interventions to people with disabilities in a variety of settings.
Before you start your career, you'll get real-world experience. Lots of it. Finish up your academic career with a 30-week internship, the longest of any recreation program in the nation. Our Center for Leisure Services can help you find a perfect match. You might even earn your mouse ears at Disney World, through the Disney College Program.
Our programs have been accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Parks, Recreation, Tourism, and Related Professions for nearly four decades.
Program Highlights
As a student in our recreation program, you'll:
Be surrounded by an inclusive, welcoming, and passionate faculty and student body in Finch Fieldhouse. Faculty have an open door policy and are on a first-name basis with students.
Be part of an event management program recognized as the world's best by The International Festivals and Events Association.
Surround yourself with high achieving peers — our therapeutic recreation grads pass their certification exam at a 94.9% rate, higher than the national average.
Earn credits while working or volunteering at a camp, nature center, park, or zoo in our outdoor recreation program.
Have opportunities to join many student groups, including the Association of Recreation and Event Professionals, the High Adventure Club, and the Therapeutic Recreation Student Club.
ประมาณ May 2024
เริ่มเรียน
ประมาณ สิงหาคม 2024
Central Michigan University
1200 S Franklin St,
MOUNT PLEASANT,
Michigan,
48859, United States
English Language Requirements:
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