Graduate Certificate in Recreation Management

Summary

Build your outdoor recreation and sports management abilities with a qualification that’s admired by businesses, organisations and employers across Aotearoa New Zealand.

Recreation and sport are essential to a healthy society. Lincoln University’s Graduate Certificate in Recreation Management prepares you for careers in the public, commercial and voluntary sectors, with a focus on parks and park management, outdoor leadership, sports management, community recreation and tourism. The course grows your skills and understanding beyond academic competence into critical thinking, practical analysis and decision-making.

Programme Structure

Lincoln’s Certificate in Recreation Management is a single semester, full-time study course. You require 60 credits with a minimum of 45 credits at 300 level. The remaining 15 credits can be chosen from the Schedule of Courses for the Bachelor of Sport and Recreation in consultation with the Academic Co-ordinator to ensure they form a coherent study programme.

Choose a minimum of three of the following courses:

Semester 1

• RECN 343 - Sport and Recreation Management
• RECN 341 - Recreation and Tourism in Protected Natural Areas
• RECN 344 - Event Management
• RECN 345 - Fundamentals of Sport and Exercise Science

Semester 2

• RECN 393 - Practicum: Practical Experience in Sport and Recreation Management
• SOCI 315 - Policy and Practice
• PSYC 302 - Social Psychology of Wellbeing