Recreation Leadership Minor
Degree Overview
All students interested in developing their abilities to lead, facilitate, program, instruct, and manage risk are encouraged to complete a minor in recreation leadership studies during their time at Calvin University. Students selecting the recreation leadership minor will experience the Calvin campus as a learning lab. Along with on-campus courses, students travel well beyond the traditional classroom setting, exploring the rich and powerful experiential context of national and global field courses, community-based internships, adventure programming, and/or wilderness-based learning contexts. Recreation leadership minors will develop proficiency in a highly transferable leader skill sets; group facilitation, instruction, programming, risk management, development of teams, management of group dynamics, conflict management and resolution, and development of individual self-efficacy.
Program Requirements & Opportunities
- Overview
The recreation leadership minor exists to empower Calvin students to:
- Develop a philosophy of leadership based in virtue ethics and distinct Christian perspectives.
- Understand the transformative impact of good leadership in the lives of individuals and groups.
- Create a servant leadership disposition centered in stewardship, empathy, and individual development.
- Cultivate a signature style of leading that capitalizes on assets and strengths and develops liabilities.
- Be a part of collaborative leadership projects that bring curriculum to life, through real-world projects.
- Build and test leader-craft through leader roles in outcomes-based opportunities and programs.
- Build leadership efficacy; competence and confidence, though complex skill acquisition.
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Course Requirements
Loading... - Learning Outcomes
Using recreation contexts, the Calvin Recreation Leadership Minor strives to emphasize and develop within the individual student the following transferable core competencies:
- Direct leadership of groups and experiences
- Facilitation and team building skills
- Instructional curriculum design and instructional skills
- Comprehensive Program planning and delivery
- Environmental and program risk management
- Management of Program Vision, culture, group dynamics, and community
- Holistic development of individual through recreation experiences
- Careers
Although this minor is intended to enrich other majors and academic tracks, if you have completed a recreation minor, you will graduate from Calvin equipped for employment in the following careers and vocations:
- Federal and state land management; i.e. national parks, national forests, Bureau of Land Management, and state department of natural resources and parks
- Physical education teachers and experiential educators in public and private schools
- Youth leadership and development; church and para-church based program leadership
- Science-based outdoor education; i.e. Teton Science School
- Camp leadership and camp program directing
- Wilderness leadership, instruction, and guiding; i.e. National Outdoor Leadership School, Outward Bound
- Recreation and wilderness therapy; i.e. Evoke
- Business management of recreation based organizations
- Social work and counseling contexts that emphasize experiential treatment, movement, and recreation
- International development and relief workers
- Recreation program administration/management; i.e. YMCA, Kroc Center
- Recreation facility management; i.e. YMCA, Kroc Center
- Local, national, and international tourism
- Nursing in remote settings
- Non-profit organizational program directing and implementation of service/community based experiences
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