REC 257 - Creative Techniques in Recreation Therapy for Self-Development and Social Justice

Units: 3; Breadth Area: GE-C2; Social Justice
This course explores creative art techniques in Recreation Therapy that includes music, expressive art, horticulture, meditation, dance, poetry, and visual arts while discovering how creative expression can promote social justice within diverse populations in local & global communities.

Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-C2 - Lower Division Humanities, Overlay - Social Justice
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
1: Practice appreciation for humanities within creative studies by showing how artistic modalities benefit the intellectual, spiritual, and imaginative process.

2: Describe how creative art practices can be used for self-development and psychological healing within diverse recreation therapy populations.

3: Engage in critical self-reflection using guided imagery, art, creativity, journaling, movement modalities, dance, music, horticulture therapy, poetry, and storytelling activities that reflect how the students view themselves and their place in society.

4: Create a personal philosophy that incorporates how to use creativity for self-development and to promote social change.

5: Design and implement a project that explores an artistic process and factors that stimulate or inhibit your creativity.

6: Evaluate how creativity can be applied to real-world social problems by finding evidence-based research and organizations demonstrating social change.

7: Describe challenges individuals and organizations experience in achieving social justice and equity using creative modalities such as dance, art, poetry, music, and other artistic practices.

8: Identify ways an individual or organization can use creative therapy techniques to contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, or the world.

C2. Humanities Learning Outcomes
1. Show appreciation for the humanities using their intellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity;
2. Develop their affective and cognitive faculties through studying great works reflecting the rich diversity of human imagination and/or inquiry; and
3. Engage in critical self-reflection relating themes in the humanities to the students’ own lives.
Social Justice Overlay Learning Outcomes
1. Use a disciplinary perspective to analyze issues of social justice and equity;
2. Describe the challenges to achieving social justice; and
3. Identify ways in which individuals and/or groups can contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, or the world.