Are you a fan of adventures? Do you want to spend all your lifetime outdoors enjoying discovering different natural places? You would love to spend your life living adventures and having fun with different people, but no one is supporting your ambition? You are having people telling that this is just a hobby, and you should focus on your studies to have a degree! They say degrees are essential! Degrees are what matters? Well, what about having a university degree as an adventure?
Yes! This is possible, only few people might be familiar with adventure education as a field of studies, but in fact it is a recognized field of studies which includes outdoors courses such as : Rock Climbing Fundamentals , Water kayaking, Fire Building, Shelter Building, and a lot more of interesting and unique courses . This sounds like a lot of fun, doesn’t it ? If you have an adventurous spirit, you do not have to push yourself to study indoors classes that you actually hate. You need to love what you are learning to actually benefit from it, and succeed in it.
A study day for a student who selects adventure education as a field could be all about sleeping in tents or in wilderness, practicing activities outdoors, or acquiring useful tips and knowledge to use, indoors. The goal of the courses or even some activities (depending on the university) are about risk management, business management, ecotourism… The graduate student’s later will have the opportunity to work depending on their interests and specialization at: Guiding, Instructing, Environmental Education and Recreation, Therapeutic Adventures…
Most of us like adventures movies, and we see it as our life dream stories. While watching “The Wild” movie for example! Haven’t you thought for once of what if it was you living such an adventure? What if you were the one organizing a hiking of the highest world mountain like in the movie “EVEREST”? What about a survival story like in “The Revenant”? All exciting and enthusiastic right? Well, as this article shows, you can actually live an adventure while studying, and there are worldwide universities known to include the Adventure, or Outdoors Education as a study field, such as:
- The American Plymouth State University.
- Humak University located in Finland.
- University of the Highlands and Islands in the United Kingdome.
- Prescott College in the U.S.A.
- Algonquin College in Canada.
- University of CUMBRIA in London.
- University of Chichester in England.
- LA TROBE University in Australia.
The video bellow shows the student life and courses of adventure education students at Plymouth State University.
Sources:
-keystone.
-Plymouth State University.
-Humak .