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Future Undergraduates


What are some of your favorite memories? Setting off on family vacation? Crossing the finish line at a charity race? Watching your home team score the winning goal? These activites all represent recreation and leisure pursuits - and we train the people who make these moments happen.

Recreation and Leisure Studies at Waterloo is one of the most established programs of it's kind in Canada, and the first to offer the co-op system of education. You’ll benefit from learning in a department that has been training recreation professionals for over 40 years.

With majors in Recreation and Leisure Studies, Recreation and Sport Business, Therapeutic Recreation, and Tourism and Parks Management, and options in Tourism and Parks, you'll be able to tailor a program that’s right for you.

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