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Covid-19 Updates
All Adventure Studies field courses are suspended until the end of April 2020. Admissions for fall 2020 continue uninterrupted. Telephone information sessions continue on schedule and applications are being received digitally. There are still seats available in the Adventure Guide Certificate for fall 2020.
More information is available at TRU's COVID-19 response website.
Take it to the limit with a career in adventure
We offer the finest and most extensive adventure studies training in the world. We create exceptional educational experiences to foster students' physical, mental and emotional development so as to be of service to the global adventure industry.
I Am An Adventure Guide
Adventure Guide Certificate
Start off with an introduction to adventure sports and the adventure industry with extensive time on field activity courses and compressed and modularized classroom course instruction.
Adventure Guide Certificate
In Iceland: Essentially the same as our TRU-based certificate — an introduction to adventure sports and the adventure industry — but with the added dimension of studying in Iceland.
Adventure Guide Diploma
After you get your certificate, move on to this fast-paced course of study comprised of field trips, outdoor skills instruction, and self-directed expeditions.
Bachelor of Tourism Management
Concentration in Adventure Studies
Give your career a boost by using credits earned with our other programs toward a degree in tourism management, with a concentration in adventure studies.
Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies
Concentration in Adventure Studies
Build your own degree program, with the help of a faculty member, to suit whatever interests you most in adventure studies.
Our faculty are accomplished adventurers
At TRU we are resurrecting adventure as an antidote to the tedium, mundanity and toxicity of modern urban and industrial life. Travelling abroad, hiking in backcountry, skiing unchartered powder bowls, climbing rock and ice faces, rafting or canoeing in white river water, and riding ocean waves on a surfboard are just some of the adventurous pursuits that make up the programs at TRU.
Terry Palechuk
and Sharman Learie
Department co-chairs
What you need to know:
Adventure tourism is one of the fastest growing segments of the tourism industry in British Columbia.
Guides are the backbone of the adventure tourism industry.
Growing companies in the adventure tourism industry are looking for employees who are qualified in adventure sport activities and who possess effective interpersonal, hospitality and organizational and business skills.
The Adventure Studies Department office receives dozens of job offers each year, and many companies have realized the benefits of hiring exclusively from this resource of adventure students.
Questions? Phone our program assistant at 250-828-5221 or send email to adventure@tru.ca.