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Adventure Education Leadership
CENTER for ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION

Students SailingAdventure Education Leadership majors are concerned with providing healthy forward motion—in minds, bodies, and society. They are attuned to the relationships between the self, others and the natural world. They work for and teach balance between the three.

Adventure Education Leadership majors are naturally comfortable in groups and in new situations, and are well spoken. They are active, critical thinkers and also reflective. They like to be physically and mentally challenged and to be tired at the end of the day. They consider success a group activity, not the work of a single individual. They look at challenges and obstacles from positive and productive angles and are adept at drawing diverse types of people into conversations and activities that result in healthy growth experiences for groups and individuals.

Hikers SummitIs this you?
Could you walk away from your MP3 player and email for weeks at a time? Are you inspired and excited by collaborating? Would you describe yourself as team player? Can you also easily take charge? Are you interested in helping people make connections with the environment and other cultures? Are you an educator at heart? Does it give you a sense of satisfaction to see others push themselves to new levels of accomplishment? Are you able to view people and situations with compassion and an open mind? Are you physically active and emotionally aware? Would you consider organizing a two-day rock-climbing trip for teens at risk a great assignment?

If yes, an Adventure Education Leadership major is for you.


What you'll study
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In addition to core technical skills and education courses, your studies will also include:

  • Outdoor Adventure Education
  • Leadership
  • Theoretical Perspectives
  • Introduction to Psychology for Teaching
    and Learning
  • Research and Evaluation Methods
    in Social Sciences

Complete Program Requirements 


What you'll do
Your projects may include:Student Conference

 

 

  • Observing and facilitating expeditionary projects with a charter high school
  • Writing a theoretical paper on trends in experiential education
  • Working with various community organizations in order to improve their collaboration and productivity
  • Designing and presenting a plan for launching an experiential program for a local elementary school


Who will teach you

 Beth Arnold1  Mac  Don Lynch1

Beth Arnold
Assistant Professor

In my mind our chance to learn is all about choices—show up for your work, others, and the world, or don’t. Every opportunity we have here allows us a choice: to excel or fade.

Mac MacInnes
Associate Professor

Educating others is all about addressing the whole person in a whole way with the whole information.


 Don Lynch
 Professor of Psychology

People say that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say it was just the opposite. -David Brower


Where your major can take you
Adventure Education Leadership graduates typically go on to become:

Challenge Course Coordinators
Community Recreation Center Coordinators (U.S. Army)
Education and Service Learning Coordinators (Student Conservation Association)
    
Entrepreneurs (Adventure, Travel and Leisure segments)
Outdoor Education Center Directors
Program Planners for community service organizations 
Student Life and Activities Coordinators (colleges and universities)
Teacher and Adventure Coordinators for Charter Schools
Wilderness Expedition Leaders

Unity College Adventure Education Leadership graduates have accepted positions with these agencies, companies and organizations:

Kayakers  Appalachian Mountain Club
  Eckerd Youth Alternatives
  Fastenal
  International Wilderness Leadership School
  Maine Kayak
  North Country Rivers
  Outward Bound Schools
  Susan Curtis Foundation
  Sweetwater Kayaks
  The Home for Little Wanderers
  University of Southern Maine, 
                                                    Recreation Department
                                                Wilderness Ventures

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