Recreation, Sport, and Tourism Management Certificate
3 Courses
36 Hours
Online
Program Description
The Recreation, Sport, and Tourism Management Certificate is designed to strengthen the management and administrative skills of professionals working in recreation, sport, tourism, and health. Through practical, career-focused learning, you’ll build the knowledge and skills to effectively plan, manage, and support programs, services, and facilities that contribute to healthier individuals and stronger communities.
This certificate program uses real-world case studies and interactive learning to help you develop skills you can apply immediately. Explore topics such as inclusive practice, marketing, budgeting, financial management, and leadership while building your professional capabilities and advancing your career in recreation, sport, tourism, or health.
Questions? Please contact our program team: KSRcertificates@ualberta.ca
Who Will Benefit?
This program is designed for professionals working in sport, recreation, tourism, education, health care, and related fields who want to strengthen their management and administrative skills.
What You'll Learn
Through this certificate, you will learn how to:
- 🗸Define and describe concepts, terms, and principles that affect the behaviour of individuals and organizations within the tourism, sport, and recreation environment.
- 🗸Identify, assess, and design strategies within your own organization to address areas of relationship and service marketing, access, community, and belonging, and financial management.
- 🗸Recognize, develop, and practice the rights and responsibilities of global citizenship within the sport, recreation, and tourism industry.
- 🗸Critically assess the different stages of the budgeting cycle and analyze how approaches align with organizational outcomes.
What You'll Earn
- 🗸 After completing each course, learners will receive a digital badge. Once all certificate requirements are met, learners will be awarded a digital parchment. Both digital badge and parchment are securely delivered through MyCreds.
- Program Length: 36 hours across three 12-hour courses.
- Delivery: Fully online and asynchronous, with courses currently available on demand.
- Pathway to further study: Learners who complete the non-credit certificate may be eligible to ladder into the Sport + Recreation Management Graduate Certificate (SRMC) and receive credit toward one course.
- Please note that continuing education classes are not eligible for student loans.
- Approximate cost of the program: CAD $1,500 ($500 x 3 courses).
- Flexible payment options: register and pay for all courses at once or pay course-by-course as you go.
- Courses are GST-exempt.
- International Students are welcome to enroll and pay the same course fees as local students.
- Proficiency in English and a stable internet connection are needed to participate and succeed in our courses.
- Please note that non-credit programming does not qualify for a study permit, therefore, this program cannot be used for immigration to Canada. For more information, please contact University of Alberta International Student Services.