Be market-ready with some of the best outdoor leadership training in Canada.
Gain valuable leadership skills, be market-ready, and driven to succeed.
Get hands-on experience and earn provincially and nationally recognized technical certifications in canoe tripping, river rescue, sea kayaking, rock climbing, National Lifesaving Society and wilderness emergency first aid.
You have the choice of completing a 400-hour internship with leading outdoor adventure industries, leading a 3-week international expedition out of North America, or writing an undergraduate thesis.
Self-motivated and passionate students will excel in the small, interactive classes, focusing on leadership, guiding, and instructing in remote or austere environments.
This program focuses on outdoor leadership, guiding and instructing in various environments including remote outdoor locations.
Students in the program will partake in some of the foremost and longest running outdoor adventure leadership training in Canada and have the opportunity to gain valuable experiences and earn provincially or nationally recognized technical certifications in outdoor activities, such as canoe tripping, river rescue, sea kayaking, rock climbing and wilderness emergency first aid.
You will be given the chance to either enroll in a 400-hour internship or lead a three-week international expedition out of North America or do an undergraduate thesis.
The learnings, techniques and theories of leadership, practised in the outdoors, are easily transferable to any other context. Industries today are constantly requiring quality leadership; the adventure leadership discipline understands this and creates the opportunities for their students to be successful wherever they may end up after graduation. Students are well-rounded in their experiences and market ready (and driven) upon graduation. Self-motivated and passionate students will excel in this program which offers many student-directed, and hands-on experiences.
Career Opportunities
Wilderness and international expedition guiding/trip planning, adventure activity instruction, outdoor education, wilderness lodge, resort, park operations, corporate adventure training and teambuilding, employment within recreation departments, outdoor photography and film-making, outdoor research, wilderness adventure therapy, entrepreneurship.
Esperado Mayo, Septiembre 2023
Laurentian University
Campus Sudbury,
935 Ramsey Lake Road,
SUDBURY,
Ontario (ON),
P3E 2C6, Canada
Applicants require the successful completion of a secondary school diploma with the equivalent course requirements as Ontario applicants listed in the Grade 12 course equivalencies by Province section below.
Applicants from the Province of Quebec require a minimum of one full year of the Collège designment general et professional (CEGEP) program. Those who have completed more than one year of a CEGEP program will be considered for admission with advanced standing.
A minimum overall average of 75% in the 6 best grade 12 U/M courses
English language requirements:
Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL -iBT): 88 Overall
Computer-based TOEFL (CBT) - Test Of English as a Foreign Language: 230 overall
IELTS Academic - International English Language Testing System: 6.5 overall (No band lower than 6.0)
Cambridge Assessment English: C1 Advanced or C2 Proficiency with a Cambridge Score of 176 or more
CAEL - Canadian Academic English Language Assessment: 70 overall (No part below 60)
Canadian Test of English for Scholars and Trainees – CanTEST: 4.5 overall (No part below 4)
PTE Academic - Pearson Test of English: 60 Overall
Duolingo English Test: Minimum Score: 110
Puede haber diferentes requisitos de IELTS en función del curso elegido.
