The Concentration in Outdoor Education draws on courses in outdoor recreation and physical education to prepare students with the skills and qualifications to teach in, and connect students to, the outdoors. Outdoor Education (OE) teaches subject content and uses the outdoors as a context for teaching and fostering physical and mental wellbeing, youth development, community building, and environmental sustainability. As a professional practice, outdoor education is both integrated into the traditional school system and in alternative educational opportunities offered by school boards, municipal recreation agencies, summer camps, colleges and universities, forest schools and for-profit service providers, among others. Students in the program complete 0.5 to 4.0 credits of placement experiences, and graduates will have extensive outdoor field experience engaged in technical skill training, outdoor education practices and pedagogy, risk management, outdoor leadership skill development, and place-based education. Graduates will be versatile educators qualified to apply to BEd programs at the Junior/Intermediate level. Graduates will complete 3.0 credits toward a teachable subject in Health and Physical Education. Students have the elective space to complete coursework in a second teachable subject area required to teach at the Intermediate/Senior level.