Recreation,
park, and leisure studies
Recreation, park, and leisure studies is a growing field with an
increasing demand for high-quality, well-trained, dedicated professionals. A career in
this field allows you to touch the lives of a wide variety of people in significant ways
and allows you to work with people when they are at their best—involved in activities
that have central meaning to their lives. Perhaps your interest is focused on working with
youth in urban settings, or with persons with disabilities in wilderness settings, or the
elderly in therapeutic recreation, or with adults in a park and recreation sports program.
You may be attracted to the growing tourism and adventure vacation business. Study in this
field can prepare you for these careers and many others. The college's well-designed,
research-based programs emphasize program planning, needs assessment, business management,
and economics, as well as education and human development theories.
Undergraduate
(B.S.) degree in recreation, park, and leisure studies
Program overview
Career resources
See also
Employment and career information
Links to these sites are provided for your convenience
and do not constitute an endorsement.
Career information from ISEEK
Occupational outlook for
"recreation workers" from the Bureau
of Labor Statistics
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