Outdoor and Environmental Education (Common Entry) (Hons) Atlantic Technological University

Overview

Outdoor learning experiences are utilised within many sectors in Ireland, such as schools, social care organisations, community development, youth services and adventure tourism. Outdoor Education students at ATU gain an in depth understanding of the varied role of outdoor learning and develop experience in designing, running and facilitating educational programmes. 

Through fieldtrips, expeditions and lectures, students explore and examine Irish landscape, heritage and ecology and realise the potential of adventure tourism, green exercise and nature therapy. Graduates will be empowered to promote careful use and management of an increasingly threatened natural world and to educate others in wise use and sustainable practice.  Atlantic Technological University offers a degree in  Outdoor and Environmental Education (Common Entry) (Hons) .

Career:

ATU’s Outdoor Education programmes meet the demand for professionals in outdoor education centres, forest schools, nature kindergartens, adventure therapy, environmental education, eco-tourism, and outdoor recreation and resource management.

There are endless employment opportunities within educational and environmental organisations, social services, sporting governing bodies, Sports Partnerships, Coillte, National Parks, and youth services as facilitators, development officers and managers. Forest schools, green exercise and nature therapy are significant growth areas. Graduates are often employed in the area of Rural Development, Countryside Recreation, Trail Design and Eco/Rural tourism.