This exciting 3-year Outdoor Adventure Management course provides students with the opportunities to develop the academic knowledge and appropriate skills necessary to gain employment in the outdoor sector.
The course has gained a reputation as one of Ireland’s foremost adventure education programs, with former students working all over the world in the field of outdoor and adventure education.
Year 1: Outdoor Sports and Recreation (5M5148, QQI Level 5)
Year 2: Sports Recreation and Exercise (6M5147, QQI level 6)
Year 3 option 1: Traineeship in the Outdoors
Year 3 option 2: Entrepreneurship in the Outdoors
Outdoor Adventure Management Year 1
Certificate in Outdoor Sports and Recreation – QQI Level 5
The first year of our course aims to equip our students with a variety of personal and practical skills in outdoor adventure environments. Additionally, you will be introduced to the theory that underpins outdoor adventure education and the academic skills needed to pursue a career in the outdoor adventure sector.
Program content*:
- Outdoor Recreation
- Adventure Activities
- Communications
- Work Experience
- Outdoor Leadership and Safety
- Sailing Skills
- Kayak instruction Skills
- Windsurfing Skills
- Powerboat Skills
- Rock climbing skills
- Rescue and Emergency Care (REC2) first aid
- Safeguarding
- Principals of Leave No Trace
Outdoor Adventure Management Year 2
Sports Recreation and Exercise – QQI level 6
The second year of our course takes you further down the path of understanding the value of outdoor education in all aspects of life. You will explore the benefits of positive outdoor experiences and all its potential. This course provides the theoretical underpinning of outdoor learning as well as looking at leadership within the outdoor activity sector.
Program Content*:
- Sport industry practice
- Leadership
- Event Management
- Safety Management
- Work practice **
- Sailing instructorship
- Windsurfing instructorship
- Kayak instruction skills
- Powerboat skills
- Mountaineering and climbing skills
*All modules presented are subject to change and will be confirmed each year.
** A limited number of second-year students can partake in fully funded 3-week work placements in Corsica (Glénans Sailing School, CESM) and Fuerteventura (Club Ion) through the Erasmus program.
Students must budget around €1500 per year to cover the cost of personal equipment, trips and external assessments.
