State approved Recreation Associates Degree

Hello, I know this is an odd request but my daughter could get an additional Vocational Certification if she had an Associates degree in Recreation. She is a state certified teacher with a double BA already. This can be from a state recognized entity. I know I have asked before but wonder if anyone has any additional information. Hille

 

National University has an AA in Golf Management (I don't know if it is available by DL)
http://www.nugolfacademy.org/Our-Programs/Associate-Arts-Concentration-Professional-Golf-Management.html

and TESC has this AS in Recreation Services
http://www.tesc.edu/1789.php

and this BS in Recreation Services
http://www.tesc.edu/2050.php

 

Any other ideas for a Certificate in Recreation

Hi, Looking for additional ideas for Theraputic Recreation. This can be an undergrad cert. Thanks. Hille

 

Here's a couple of links for 'online' program /course offerings:

Therapeutic Recreation Directory:
http://www.recreationtherapy.com/distant.htm

Manchester CC: http://www.mcc.commnet.edu/academic/cert/therRec.php

A more inclusive listing of therapeutic rec. programs; but not necessarily via DL:
http://www.recreationtherapy.com/trcollg.htm

 

Recreation BA- Piecing together a high speed BA

Hi, Looking for ideas for piecing together a high speed BA in Recreation. Daughter has two undergrad degrees ( Hospitality- Restaurant) and Liberal Studies from TESC. Professionally it would be good if she had an additional degree in Rec. Studies. Looking at the limited time TESC will be in operation wondering if she could knock out a third BA in a limited amount of time. Ideas appreciated for speeding this up. Hille

 

Were these both bachelors'? "The college will not award a third bachelor's degree." - Undergraduate Academic Policies, Thomas Edison State College

Charter Oak State College has to approve the pursuit of at least a second degree but doesn't seem to have a firm published policy against third or subsequent degrees; she could pursue Recreation Studies as a customized Individualized Studies concentration. Excelsior College seems to have no such restrictions; she could pursue recreation studies as an area of focus within a bachelor's in Liberal Arts, if the school didn't consider this degree inherently duplicative with her bachelor's in Liberal Studies from TESC, which if all the ~36 sh in recreation studies were new you would think it shouldn't...

 

Also, the Recreation Services bachelor's at TESC is a Bachelor of Science in Human Services (B.S.H.S.), with that practicum requirement, which is famously restrictive, and requires current work experience in recreation services. TESC has the customized Learner Designed Area of Study option, but schools that offer these often balk at customized areas of study that are too close to areas of study they offer otherwise. So she might want to put a different spin on it - Physical Education and Recreation Studies, Community Development and Recreation Studies, Sports Management, etc.

 

How to earn credits in recreation nontraditionally? Many scuba diving courses from PADI, the Professional Association of Diving Instructors, have ACE CREDIT recommendations.

1 sh Open Water Diver: initial recreational scuba diving certification

1 sh Advanced Open Water Diver
1 sh Rescue Diver
2 sh Divemaster: prerequisites include all the foregoing, and 20 logged dives to start training, and a corequisite of 60 logged dives is required at graduation

1 sh Deep Diver
1 sh Enriched Air Diver: Nitrox
1 sh Night Diver
1 sh Wreck Diver
1 sh Search & Recovery Diver
1 sh Underwater Navigator
1 sh Underwater Photographer: recommendation applies to either flash or Digital Underwater Photographer
1 sh Dry Suit Diver

1 sh Emergency First Response Instructor: first aid, CPR and AED instructor training through the PADI affiliate Emergency First Response International; no scuba diving prerequisite or corequisite

Further credit is available for becoming an Open Water Scuba Instructor, which also requires 100 logged dives, or instructor-training Course Director, or for a few technical diving certifications which also require 100 prior logged dives. All of these, if what I'm looking at are counted as lower-level credit except the technical diving certifications.

You would have to study through a dive center or independent active instructor affiliated with PADI, and you would have to be sure you would earn the certification through PADI - a center or instructor might be affiliated with multiple diver certification agencies and might run any given certification through one of the others.