2007-2008 Catalog (PDF) - Colorado State University-Pueblo

College of Education, Engineering, and Professional Studies
• Prepare students to become productive, accountable,
ethical and responsible professionals.
• Prepare students to enter graduate or professional
schools.
Recreation graduates are expected to:
• Demonstrate knowledge of the history and
philosophy of leisure, recreation, and parks in
western society;
• Exhibit awareness of the scope of the leisure
services delivery spectrum, including public,
private, and non-profit sector service providers in
major specializations of leisure, recreation, and
parks;
• Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to
conduct various recreation program planning
phases including client assessment, goal setting,
activity analysis/selection, program management
and evaluation;
• Demonstrate knowledge and the skills involved in
a recreation leadership function including
interpersonal communication, trust building, power
and influence, interpersonal conflict and its
resolution, teaching and transference, and
decision making;
• Exhibit an awareness of the special populations
that recreation programs and resources must
accommodate, the implications of programming
for each population, and specific agencies/
legislation currently providing services for each
population;
• Demonstrate knowledge of the principal federal
and state agencies providing parks and resourcebased
recreation opportunities in the United
States including the primary management policies
and challenges;
• Demonstrate competencies in applying principles
of management to recreation services and
resources, including the organization of agencies,
personnel, fiscal/risk management, and marketing;
• Exhibit an understanding of philosophies, history,
curricular elements, and settings for outdoor
education in the United States;
• Exhibit an awareness of key professional organizations
and current trends/issues in the field of
recreation and how to obtain matching employment;
• Demonstrate the ability to read and interpret
professional journal articles relevant to recreation
and to carry out and report on new, original
research; and
• Understand the principles of recreation facility
design, construction and management.
Specific Requirements for the Recreation
Emphases:
Core Course Requirements for the Recreation
Emphases
Courses Titles Credits
EXHP 101 Introduction to EXHPR.................. 3
REC 240 Recreation Program Design.......... 3
REC 280 Foundations of Therapeutic
Recreation..................................... 3
REC 350 Leadership and Ethics .................. 3
REC 360 Outdoor Education ........................ 3
REC 375 Research and Evaluation of
Recreation..................................... 3
REC 389 Practicum ..................................... 3
EXHP 461 Managing Programs in EXHPR..... 3
REC 493 Seminar ........................................ 2
REC 498 Internship .................................... 12
Emphasis Course Requirements
Outdoor Adventure Leadership
http://ceeps.colostate-pueblo.edu/exhpr/outdoor_adventure
_education.htm
Courses Titles Credits
EXHP 113L-
117L Outdoor Skills (select 4 of 5)........... 4
REC 102-
105 Orientations (select 3 of 4).............. 6
REC 249 Challenge Course Leadership ........ 2
REC 270 Outdoor Leadership I ...................... 2
REC 322 Wilderness First Aid........................ 2
REC 370 Outdoor Leadership II .................... 2
REC 484 Outdoor Resources & Management .. 3
Community/Commercial Recreation
http://ceeps.colostate-pueblo.edu/exhpr/community_
commercial_rec.htm
Courses Titles Credits
REC 250 Commercial Recreation and
Tourism......................................... 3
REC 485 Recreation Facility Design and
Management ................................. 3
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