REC 259 - Diversity in Therapeutic Environmental Recreation

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-4; Diversity
This course introduces therapeutic environmental recreation that involve active civic engagement and informed participation in public debate regarding social, political, and economic therapeutic recreation issues. Examination of contemporary and historical topics in a variety of cultural groups in its contexts within therapeutic recreation will also be discussed. Lastly, the diverse efforts and strategies used by cultural groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures within the therapeutic recreation environment will also be discussed.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-4 - Lower Division Social and Behavioral Sciences, Diversity Overlay
Repeatability: May be repeated for a maximum of 6 units total.
Possible Instructional Methods: Hybrid.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

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

Explain the contemporary and historical topics in a variety of cultural groups in genders and race between African American, Hispanic, Asian, and Caucasian in their contexts within therapeutic recreation.
Identify civic engagement in public debate in regards to social, political, and economic in cultural groups in genders and race between African American, Hispanic, Asian, and Caucasian within therapeutic recreation issues.
Interpret the way that multiple differences within cultural groups in genders and race between African American, Hispanic, Asian, and Caucasian complicate individual and group identities within therapeutic environmental recreation.
Describe the diverse efforts and strategies used by cultural groups in genders and race between African American, Hispanic, Asian, and Caucasian to combat the effects of oppressive structures within the therapeutic recreation environment.

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 U.S. cultural groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures.
Analyze the intersection of categories of race and gender as they affect U.S. cultural group members lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities.
Recognize the way that multiple differences (including, e.g., gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within U.S. cul