• The Department of Recreation Administration offers many unique opportunities to learning beyond the indoor classrooms.  The department provides practical experiences, outdoor learning, and social networking opportunities within the Major's Club and Rho Phi Lambda's National Honor Fraternity for Parks, Recreation and Leisure.
  

• The basic curriculum provides many opportunities for practical experiences outside the classroom.  Students can receive credit for three full-time work experiences, which provide an opportunity for more than 1,000 clock hours with professional recreation agencies.  Students have engaged in field experiences in such foreign countries as Germany, Italy, and Crete.  The the U.S., students have gone to agencies from Maine to Florida and New York to California, as well as Hawaii and Alaska.
  

Outdoor Learning

• The Department offers an annual outdoor education workshop in the Smoky Mountains, Tennessee.
  

The Major's Club

• Student involvement is encouraged in an active majors' club, the Student Association for Recreation.  The student group provides an excellent opportunity for 140 majors to become involved in a variety of educational, social, and athletic activities and to meet many new friends.  Faculty provide enthusiastic support to the majors' club.
  

Links of Professional Interest

• National Recreation & Park Association
  
• American Therapeutic Recreation Association
  
• Association for Experiential Education
  
• National Center on Accessibility
  
• Therapeutic Recreation Directory
  
• The Outdoor Network
  
• National Therapeutic Recreation Society
  
• Society of Park and Recreation Educators