2001 Swinburne Undergraduate and TAFE Course Guide

Outdoor Leadership
Course title
Diploma of Recreation (Outdoor Leadership)
Certificate IV in Recreation (Outdoor Leadership)
Certificate III in Outdoor Leadership
Duration
Diploma: two years full-time.
Certificate IV: one year full-time.
Certificate III: one year full-time.
Location
Diploma/Certificate IV: Eildon in NE Victoria.
Certificate III: Croydon.
Entry requirements
Diploma/Certificate IV: satisfactory completion of
an appropriate Victorian Year 12 or its equivalent.
Applicants twenty -one years or over are
preferred.
Certificate III: it is preferable that applicants are
eighteen years or over.
Application procedure
Direct to Swinburne.
Hannah Lieberman
I have a big dream
Diploma in Recreation (Sports Coaching)
Course overview
Diploma/Certificate IV: students can look forward
to the development of their technical,
interpersonal, professional judgement and safety
skills. In partnership with the Outdoor Education
Group (O.E.G), the course begins with the basic
fundamentals before moving onto more complex
challenges. Major studies include: leadership,
ethics and values, risk management, weather
interpretation, wilderness first aid, managing
group problem solving and decision making,
environmental legislation.
Certificate III: an introductory course aimed at
people who have an interest in pursing a career
in the outdoor industry, but as yet have little
experience in this field. Students will develop
judgement and technical skills and prudent safety
standards. Major studies include: recreation and
the law, risk management, adventure learning,
weather information, work team communication,
dealing with conflict.
Career opportunities
Diploma: management of outdoor recreation
enterprises or facilities, development and
conduction of extended outdoor programs or
activities.
Certificate IV: conduct activities at outdoor
recreation centres, camps and in adventure
guiding, or outdoor retail sector.
Certificate III: camp assistant, outdoor retail
sector.
Further information
Tel: 1300 368 777 (general enquiries)
Department of Human Services
Tel: (03) 9213 6682
Hannah Lieberman fits a lot into 24 hours.
She has recently completed her full-time
Diploma in Recreation, Sports Coaching at
Swinburne’s Hawthorn campus, at the
same time as studying part-time at
another university in the Bachelor of
Applied Science (Disability Studies)
program, working as the Club
Administrative Officer for the Swinburne
University Sports Association and the
university football club, working as an
agency attendant carer for people with
intellectual and physical disabilities, and
playing and coaching netball.
How does she fit it all in?
“I’ve always been a busy person. When I
started in 1995 I was also playing state
league netball, coaching and working. I
really liked the course – but at the end of
1996 a close friend from there died, and I
decided I needed to be somewhere else
for a while.
“I had heard about the Swinburne course,
that it was very hands on, and very
relevant to the field, and thought I’d give it
a go.”
Hannah studied full-time at Swinburne in
1997. “I got involved in everything at
Swinburne, which I had never done at
Deakin. The smaller size is such an
advantage, and the marketing of all the
university activities is good.
Hannah had the opportunity to put her
coursework to good use when she won a
scholarship – the first – awarded by the
Swinburne Chancellery to work as the Club
Administrative Officer for the University
Sports Association and the Swinburne
University Amateur Football Club.
“I did a bit of everything there – from
finding sponsorship for the Australian
University Games to organising a major
fund-raising auction night for the football
club at Caulfield racetrack to working as
a trainer. Everything I had studied in my
course was relevant!”
Where does Hannah Lieberman direct her
energies next? “I have a big dream. I want
to combine my interests and run my own
organisation providing recreational activities
for people with disabilities. It would be a
client-based business, designing activities
to suit individual needs.”
It’s hard to believe that Hannah Lieberman
is still only 22.
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