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REC 100 - Introduction to Recreation and Recreation Therapy

1. Explain the conceptual foundations, theories, history and future of recreation and recreation therapy.
2. Identify the diverse sectors that make up the recreation and recreation therapy industries and career opportunities within each.
3. 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.
4. Identify the ways in which various U.S. cultural groups experience recreation differently including structures of oppression and correlated resistance throughout history.

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

1. Describe the histories, experiences or views of one or more cultural groups.
2. Analyze the overlap or intersection of social identities of oneself and/or other cultural groups (e.g., culture, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, and/or age).
3. Examine the impact of their own identity on their experiences with and/or views of other cultural groups.