Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies Concentrations in Adventure Studies

About this programme

With the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies, you can design a curriculum customized to your interests and goals. Do you want to study adventure therapy? Expedition leadership? Community development? Outdoor education? Sport performance? Another adventure-related topic? You decide, then work with a faculty member to build your own program. Incorporate TRU courses, distance learning courses, independent studies courses, and field work courses (practicums, field schools or co-op placements). For students interested in areas other than the concentrations listed above, the following list is intended to help generate ideas about other possibilities. If you have another idea, work it out and propose it. The idea of the BIS-Adventure Studies degree is to study a specific adventure-related topic from the perspectives of a variety of different areas of study (disciplines). The student's program must incorporate a number of different disciplines (for example, adventure, geography, sociology, psychology, economics, business, tourism, physical education, anthropology, science, etc.). The following are approved BIS research methods courses. Students may identify other suitable courses from outside TRU. The following are approved BIS critical thinking courses. Students may identify other suitable courses from outside TRU.