Recreation

I am Associate Professor Nigar Küçükkubaş, Vice Chair of the Department of Recreation in the Faculty of Sports Sciences at Yalova University. Recreation is a profession that has recently started to be recognized in our country. It is a profession that enables individuals to make plans to manage their free time and to ensure their personal development, thus increasing their quality of life. Recreation leads individuals to achieve their psychomotor, mental, and sensory development and achieve their related goals through participation in sports and physical activity. There are both theoretical and applied courses in the recreation department. We have theoretical courses, especially in behavioral science, public relations and communication sciences, so that they can be competent in the profession. Team sports and individual sports in applied courses are theoretical and practical courses that our students will attend. In addition, courses related to outdoor sports such as winter camp and summer camp are also included in our curriculum for students who want to specialize in these areas. In this respect, we give the opportunity to students who want to improve themselves in the field of academic study both to develop a project and to apply the project they developed. In our faculty, we attach great importance to exchange programs. We started to make efforts for these. We started to correspond with many universities abroad. As our agreement processes with these universities are completed, we will enable our students to benefit from exchange programs. Our graduates who successfully complete the recreation department can continue their professional lives both in the public and private sectors. They can continue their profession in municipalities, general directorate of youth sports, NGOs (non-governmental organizations) and tourism related companies. At the same time, they can take place in managerial positions in all of these organizations. Dear students, we have the chance to do a lot of activities both at national and international levels in the Marmara Region. For this reason, when you come to our department, I recommend you to study hard especially for foreign language. When you come to Yalova University Faculty of Sports Sciences, Recreation Department, be interested in the characteristics of Yalova province. You will find plenty of opportunities for both nature and water sports. At the same time, you can ski in both Karlıtepe and Uludağ as it is close to Bursa and Izmit. I wish success to all students who will come to Yalova University Recreation Department.