Get outdoors
Expand your knowledge in select courses like backpacking, sea kayaking and winter travel while learning the essentials of management, leadership, and how to travel outdoors safely and ethically.
Share your love of outdoor adventure, education and conservation with people from around the world. Turn your dreams into a living with CapU's Outdoor Recreation Management program!
Outdoor Recreation Management Diploma
Turn your outdoor passion into a rewarding career with our signature two-year program, featuring hands-on learning and a paid co-op work experience placement.
Outdoor Recreation Management Diploma
School of Outdoor Recreation Management
Why study outdoor recreation management at CapU?
From hiking, skiing, climbing and biking on our glorious mountains to sailing, kayaking, diving and surfing on the ocean or camping and viewing wildlife, you'll find something to enjoy at destinations throughout B.C.
This trend is creating ever more demand for people with education and training in outdoor recreation.
Potential employers include tourism companies and recreation organizations, with additional opportunities in federal, provincial and municipal governments or working in national, provincial and regional parks.
And since our programs emphasize entrepreneurial skills, you can also strike out on your own and start a business.
Receive specialized training
You can grow your skills in areas such as alpine travel and avalanche safety as part of your diploma.
Put your passion for the outdoors to work
You'll develop the entrepreneurial know-how to start your own business in B.C.'s growing adventure tourism sector.
Turn your diploma into a degree
After completing your OREC diploma, you can move your credits directly into the Bachelor of Tourism Management degree program at CapU.
Join a program with a storied history
Outdoor Recreation has been going strong at CapU for more than 50 years and we are looking forward to 50 more.
Greig Gjerdalen
BA, MRM
Outdoor Recreation Management DiplomaGreig's teaching and research interests are linked to developing more meaningful and deep relationships with the natural world.
Roy Jantzen
BA, MA
Outdoor Recreation Management DiplomaRoy Jantzen is an instructor of Natural History, Ecotourism, Tourism and Climate Change and Environmental Stewardship in the Faculty of Global and Community Studies at Capilano University.
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Andrew Stegemann
BA, MRM (Planning)
Outdoor Recreation Management DiplomaAndrew Stegemann is the Convener of the Outdoor Recreation Management Program and an instructor with interests in the natural world, the art of change-making and leadership.
