Recreation Leadership Minor

Learn invaluable leadership, risk management, and organization skills while gaining outdoor proficiency.

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.

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.