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Recreation Leadership

Lead recreational activities, sports leagues, and events in your community with a career in Recreation Leadership!

Learn how to:

  • Organize recreational activities and events
  • Use recreational equipment and facilities
  • Set up sports leagues and exercise leadership
  • Give first aid

1290 hours (full-time, 52-weeks)
86 credits
Diploma of Vocational Studies (DVS)

Program Content

  • Determine their suitability for the occupation and the training process
  • Facilitate recreation activities
  • Exercise leadership
  • Give first aid
  • Adopt preventive behaviours in matters of health and safety
  • Use a computer
  • Carry out a promotional campaign
  • Support volunteerism
  • Organize ongoing activities
  • Set up sports leagues
  • Communicate in the workplace
  • Determine the costs and methods of funding of activities
  • Solve technical and organizational problems
  • Perform accounting tasks related to recreation activities
  • Manage the use of recreation equipment and facilities
  • Organize special events
  • Supervise occasional work
  • Be the trainer for a sports team
  • Plan a job search

Do you have the prerequisites?

  • Secondary III language of instruction, second language and mathematics 
    or 
  • Successful completion of the General Development Test

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Categories: Art, Culture, Recreation, Sport

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