REC 100 - Introduction to Recreation and Recreation Therapy

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-4; Diversity
Introduction to recreation and recreation therapy. Explore conceptual foundations including socio-cultural, environmental, and economic impacts of recreation on individuals and communities throughout history and into the future. Focus on differences for U.S. cultural groups, gender, and abilities.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-4 - Lower Division Social and Behavioral Sciences, Overlay - Diversity
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Explain the conceptual foundations, theories, history and future of recreation and recreation therapy.
Identify the diverse sectors that make up the recreation and recreation therapy industries and career opportunities within each.
Describe the socio-cultural, environmental, and economic system impacts on recreation, as it relates to individuals and communities and their ability to produce, resist, and transform them.
Identify the ways in which various U.S. cultural groups experience recreation differently including structures of oppression and correlated resistance throughout history.

GE-4. Lower-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Electives Learning Outcomes

Explain how social, political, and economic institutions and/or principles intersect with each other.
Describe how people produce, resist, and/or transform social, political, and economic institutions/principles.
Investigate contemporary and/or historical events/issues from a social science perspective.

Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes

describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.