Study Bachelor’s Degree in Adventure and Outdoor Education at Humak UAS, Finland

Описание: Bachelor of Adventure and Outdoor Education is a degree programme offering experiential learning in authentic learning environments using the methodology of adventure education.

The degree prepares you to work in both preventive work and youth and organizational work in the same way as the Finnish-language community educator bachelor’s degree. An adventure educator can also find employment as a guide or as an expert of nature and outdoor services and experiences.

Alongside pedagogical competencies and group leading skills, the programme emphasizes the development of the student’s leadership skills as well as their communicative, interactive, and methodological skills.

An adventure educator masters a wide range of adventure education methods and knows how to implement them with various target groups in a safe and goal-oriented way. Some of the learned skillset include canoeing, climbing and advanced rope work as well as hiking and trekking in varied environments in all seasons.

Besides the full-time studies at the campus at Helsinki and studies arranged on-site in breathtaking nature destinations, workplace learning in various internships is a significant part of the studies.

Please note that summer semesters are also utilised in the programme.

The application period for the degree programme is the joint application in January. Students from outside the EU/EEA area are subject to a tuition fee.