Outdoor Recreation Leadership Minor Degree Requirements

The Outdoor Recreation Leadership Minor (ORL) provides students pursuing any career path, with an opportunity to increase their employability through the development of leadership skills. Using the outdoors as a learning platform, students engage in classroom and field-based coursework to develop skills in leadership, theoretical knowledge, and teaching that complement their academic major's area of expertise. Students interested in professional opportunities in the outdoors learn a wealth of technical skills, group facilitation, and gain an understanding of the significant role outdoor recreation has in the economy, education, physical health, mental health, and global awareness.

Develop Leadership Skills - Enhance Your Marketability - Complement Your Major

• The ORL minor is 17 credit hours.
• This is a suggested plan to navigate the minor. Students may progress through the Outdoor Recreation Leadership (ORL) in many ways.
• Students must first declare the minor using a Major/Minor Concentration Update Form. This form is available at the Student Services Desk in the Turley Center. The minor code for Outdoor Recreation Leadership is 4305
• There are some Outdoor Recreation Leadership courses that are taught in the 1st or 2nd half of the semester only. They are usually paired with another course in the other half, but not always.
• Courses marked with an asterisk (*) are offered only in one semester (Spring or Fall).
• The activity courses in the minor (RECR 1150, RECR 1151, RECR1177, and RECR 1188) may require travel and overnight stays off-campus.

*This menu of courses is for students entering Fairmont State in the Fall Semester of 2015 and later. There is a separate menu of courses for students who entered prior to the Fall Semester of 2015. Please contact jan.kiger@fairmontstate.edu for more information.