Parks And Recreation Schools

Detailed profiles of schools for Parks And Recreation from the EdRef college search portal.

Parks and Recreation programs prepare students to enter professions within the field of parks, recreation, and leisure services. Programs include education that is experiential in nature and includes real-world challenges. Students learn how to plan, organize, and facilitate leisure activities that satisfy and meet the needs of the participants. There are many subspecialties within this area of study, including outdoor leadership, community recreation management, park and resource protection, recreation programming, interpretation, outdoor recreation research, recreation site, area planning, and leisure theory.

Programs include a high degree of hands-on learning, traveling, seminars, and independent study. Students may choose to study commercial recreation, leisure services for the elderly, outdoor recreation, outdoor education, park system planning, park system management, public recreation, therapeutic recreation, tourism, wilderness leadership, or adventure recreation. Graduate programs in this area allow students to apply research methods to the management and administration of parks and recreation facilities and organizations.