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RSCH 141 - Guided Individual Study This course provides undergraduate students the opportunity to work individually under the supervision of an instructor to further their own personal and professional development. The normal registration is for two semester hours per semester.
Prerequisites & Notes Approval by the chairperson of the department concerned and by the instructor who has agreed to act as supervisor.
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RSCH 610 - Fundamentals and Methods of Research Fundamentals and Methods of Research
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RSCH 612 - Proposal Design Proposal Design
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RSCH 620 - Educational and Psychological Statistics I Educational and Psychological Statistics I
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Science Education |
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SCIE 145 - Earth Science This course presents earth and space science in a system approach which emphasizes the categories of the Earth’s various spheres and human activities. This unifying theme falls into the categories of Matter and Energy in the Earth Systems, Earth’s Sources of Energy, Earth’s Processes and Cycles, and The Origin and Evolution of the Universe. Students will review geological, meteorological, oceanographic, and astronomical data, learn about direct and indirect evidence and consider how these might be used to test competing theories about the origin of the stars, plants, and our own solar system.
Credits: 4 s.h |
Sociology |
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SOCI 133W - The YMCA Past, Present, and Future This course provides an understanding of the development of the YMCA movement,
including its past, present status, and future trends. The development of social,
religious, and educational philosophies are studied along with past and present
programs. Pertinent issues of the YMCA are examined as it responds to changing
needs and challenges. This course is recommended for those considering a career
with the YMCA.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SOCI 337 - Sociology of Death and Dying This course examines death as an institution by focusing on death and social values, cultural components of grief, and social functions of bereavement. Particular attention is paid to the social organization of death and dying in bureaucratic settings; e.g., hospitals, mental hospitals, nursing homes, etc. Dying is studied as a social process, with attention given to the theoretical perspectives in sociology used to study death, grief, and bereavement. Sociological concepts and current research in the field are reviewed.
Prerequisites & Notes SOCI 101.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SOCI 341 - Group Work This course is an introduction to group work methods. The course concentrates on teaching the essential techniques and behaviors used by group workers in a variety of settings. Individual relevant cases and examples of the application of group work techniques in community services are explored.
Prerequisites & Notes SOCI 101.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SOCI 347 - Introduction to Social Welfare and Social Work This course is a survey of social welfare services in the United States, with
an emphasis on current needs and programs. This course studies the various programs
and services that are established in communities as responses to perceived social
problems in these localities.
Prerequisites & Notes SOCI 101.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SOCI 355W - Theories and Methods of Case Management This course explores the theory, principles, and methods of casework in various
social agency settings. Attention is focused on identifying and assessing situational
problems using social and social psychological variables.
Prerequisites & Notes SOCI 101.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SOCI 375 - Cities and Communities The characteristics and functions of cities and metropolitan areas have changed as a result of new economic, social, and political realities in the U.S. and the world. This course focuses on the consequences of these changes on urban communities and the people who live in them. Using an assets approach, and using Springfield as our case study, the course explores effective community development strategies that can be used to both evaluate and intervene in various aspects of the “urban crisis.”
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SOCI 388 - Special Topics in Applied Sociology This course is a comprehensive examination of a contemporary issue or social problem of importance to society.
Prerequisites & Notes SOCI 101.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SOCI 420 - Media and Society This course is focused on the mass media, including television, film, newspapers, magazines, and radio. A variety of sociological theories is employed to understand the relationship between media texts, production, and consumption. The class examines the relationship between society and the mass media, especially in regard to issues of power. The students analyze the studies of others and perform their own analyses. Offered during alternate years.
Prerequisites & Notes SOCI 101.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SOCI 430 - Medical Sociology This course surveys health-related and medical-related behavior. The course is divided into three parts principles and theory in the field of medical sociology, the analysis of the professions and health care institutions, and the issues confronting health care in the United States.
Prerequisites & Notes SOCI 101.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SOCI 450 - Social Change This course is an analysis of the various processes of social change associated with different historical periods and forms of social organization. Particular attention is given to historical and contemporary trends as they relate to substantive changes in the structure of society.
Prerequisites & Notes SOCI 101.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SOCI 461 - The Community Development Process This course deals with the parallel between the community problem-solving process and the steps of scientific inquiry. It discusses the concrete functional relations between face-to-face small group processes and the processes of the macro-system.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SOCI 486 - Internship in Applied Sociology This course provides an opportunity for the student to apply sociocultural theory and methods outside of the classroom. Under close supervision of a faculty member in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology, students are permitted to work in a milieu of their vocational organizations; e.g., criminal justice, welfare services, census bureaus, museums, and polling organizations. This provides students with career choices, future employment contacts, and pre-professional experience.
Prerequisites & Notes SOCI 101.
Credits: 3-9 s.h |
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SPCO 101 - First-Year Success This course aids in the transition from high school to college, provides knowledge of campus resources, and assists in the development of a strong and helpful relationship between students and their advisors. This course also teaches the development of time management, use of textbooks, note taking, review of course materials, and studying for examinations. Required for students in the undeclared major, may be taken by other first-year students as an elective.
Credits: 2 s.h |
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SPCO 107 - Study Skills Study skills are primarily information-processing procedures that facilitate the learning, retention, and application of knowledge and skill. Learning how to learn is the focus of the course. Listening, note-taking, surveying texts, asking useful questions, improving memory, gaining from discussions, and preparing for exams are included. This is not a remedial course.
Credits: 1 s.h |
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SPCO 188 - First Year Seminar
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SPCO 201 - Building Communication and Literacy Skills This course develops skills in reading and writing. Reading skills developed include critical reasoning, the identification of main ideas, detail, writer’s purpose, and idea relationships. Students develop the ability to write a written summary and directed composition with mastery using proper mechanics. The decision to focus on reading or writing will be determined by individual student needs.
Credits: 1 s.h |
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SPCO 499 - Fieldwork in an Educational Setting This fieldwork experience is done in an educational setting. Students have the opportunity to observe and assist educators, as well as take full responsibility as an educator in a particular educational setting.
Credits: 1-14 s.h |
Sport Management and Recreation |
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SMRT 101 - Introduction to Sport Management This course introduces students to general principles and practices in the sport industry. Students gain a general understanding and appreciation of career options that they will be prepared for as they complete the sport management major.
Credits: 1 s.h |
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SMRT 103 - Introduction to Recreation and Leisure Services This course introduces the student to the foundations of recreation and leisure services. Basic terminology, theories of play, a historical perspective of recreation and leisure, an examination of available leisure resources, and an overview of employment opportunities in the field are included.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SMRT 106 - Dynamics of Leadership This course is designed to introduce the student to theories, approaches, and styles of leadership utilized in the recreation profession. Topics for study include decision-making strategies, motivation techniques, principle-centered leadership, values, and ethical considerations. Additional areas include examination of communication processes, vision, and group dynamics.
Prerequisites & Notes SMRT 103.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SMRT 116 - Event Management and Promotions This course focuses on fundamentals of event management and including basic promotional ideas. This will include: program planning process, identification of events/programs in the sport and recreation industry, programming formats, scheduling, evaluation methods, risk management, as well as, other factors involved in event planning/management.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SMRT 204 - Outdoor Leadership This course is designed to augment a broad range of backcountry, climbing and
paddle sport skills essential to the outdoor professional. The course is a balance
between theory, skill acquisition, and skill application. Course scheduling includes
full day modules, weekends, and two extended outdoor adventure expeditions.
Prerequisites & Notes PEAC 101, 118, 195, and SMRT 106, and 275. Instructor permission is required
prior to registration.
Credits: 6 s.h |
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SMRT 253 - Processes and Techniques in Therapeutic Recreation This course is designed to provide an overview of processes and techniques used in treatment-oriented programs. Processes include assessing, establishing behavioral objectives, activity analysis and selection, documentation, charting terms, and evaluation. Techniques covered include, but are not limited to, behavior modification, recreation counseling, and group methodology.
Prerequisites & Notes SMRT 272.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SMRT 255 - Introduction to Outdoor Recreation This course includes a detailed examination of the meaning, scope, and value of outdoor education/recreation. Emphasis is given to the historical and philosophical foundations of outdoor education/recreation, the direct application to instructional procedures for providing outdoor education/recreation, and the planning and administration of such programs. Significant trends and existing outdoor education programs are also examined. This course utilizes practical experiences.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SMRT 275 - Adventure Education Theory and Practice This course is a practicum that teaches how to plan, implement, and evaluate adventure education experience groups in outdoor settings. Students have the opportunity for supervised practical experience in group leadership. Instruction utilizes the ropes course as a tool for working with groups. Topics such as experimental education, adventure education, group dynamics, leadership styles, equipment, and safety are also stressed.
Prerequisites & Notes PEAC 193 and PEPC 293.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SMRT 284 - Clinical Practicum In Therapeutic Recreation This practicum will be primarily directed at the student gaining practical experiences. Emphasis will be on students gaining familiarity with the client population. The agency/institution philosophy, treatment approaches and general procedures. Student learning will focus on the development of observational skills, client characteristics and initial leadership experience.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SMRT 304 - Marketing Issues in Sport and Recreation This course examines the application of marketing principles to the sport industry with an emphasis on event and athlete marketing, corporate sponsorship, and marketing research.
Prerequisites & Notes MGTE 121 or permission of instructor
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SMRT 348 - Management of Leisure Services This course examines the basic principles, theories, and applications of management and administration of the leisure delivery system. Emphasis is placed on systems development, human resources, quality control, marketing strategies, and customer service techniques. Additional areas include purpose of mission statements, TQM, project teams, organizational behaviors, and ethical considerations.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SMRT 361 - Facility Design, Operations and Maintenance This course acquaints students with the scope and complexity of the design, operation and upkeep of sport and recreation facilities. The students develop an awareness of the wide variety of disciplines necessary for the construction and competent administration of major sport and recreation venues including stadiums, golf courses, aquatic centers, ski areas, playing fields, ice arenas and other facilities and areas common to the sports world.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SMRT 378 - Customer Service This course is designed to prepare students to demonstrate comprehension and application of quality customer service strategies, theories and initiatives. Students identify and analyze contemporary issues, cycles of service, and service strategy models. The dynamics of effective communication techniques and design and implementation of service delivery systems are appraised and synthesized. Analysis of service delivery enterprises are utilized.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SMRT 384 - Practicum This practicum is directed at students gaining practical experience in their chosen areas of emphasis. Students become familiar with the client population and the agency/institution philosophy, programming approaches and general procedures. Students develop observational skills, gain understanding of client characteristics and practice initial leadership skills. Students are required to complete at least one hundred and twenty clock hours of satisfactory work under the direct supervision of a qualified professional and attend scheduled practicum seminars.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SMRT 392 - Independent Study in Sport or Recreation Management This course provides undergraduate students the opportunity to work individually under the supervision of an instructor to further their own personal and professional development. The normal registration is for two semester hours per semester.
Prerequisites & Notes Approval by the chairperson of the department concerned and by the instructor who has agreed to act as supervisor.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SMRT 411 - Community Based Therapeutic Recreation Service This course is designed to provide an understanding of the management and development of community based therapeutic recreation service. Emphasis is placed on legislation, community based protocols, inclusion, rights, and needs of persons with disabilities for therapeutic recreation service. A practical professional field assignment/project is required.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SMRT 417 - Research in Sport and Recreation This course examines the research of individuals, organizations and populations
involved in sport management and recreation. Students explore the concepts developed
in relevant literature as they apply to sport management and recreation. Students
are introduced to methods and techniques used in research, in recreation management,
and the sport industry.
Credits: 3 s.h. |
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SMRT 419 - Camp Programming and Administration This course consists of lecture and laboratory sessions designed to cover selected organizations and administrative details in organized camping including budget, camp sites, buildings and equipment, publicity, recruitment, insurance, nutrition, health safety, and current trends.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SMRT 420 - Introduction to Sport Governance This course is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of the role of governance structures in sport. The primary aim is to familiarize students with a basic understanding of organizational structures used in the management and governance of sport. Topics and issues discussed will involve organizational theory, behavior and governance structure used in amateur and professional sport organization.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SMRT 426 - Management of Natural Resources This course is designed to enable the student to develop an understanding of management concepts and practices and the interrelationship of land, water, flora, and fauna resources. Emphasis is placed on forestry principals, wildlife management, watershed protection, and soil conservation in the framework of the basic concept of multiple use.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SMRT 430 - Leisure Counseling This course is designed to provide an examination of the historical, philosophical, and developmental aspects of leisure counseling and its relationship to leisure education. An analysis of personal attitudes, values, and self-concepts is combined with an overview of the functions of the counselor, models of techniques of leisure counseling, and guidelines for developing a leisure counseling program in a variety of settings.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SMRT 433 - Hospitality and Food Service Management This course is designed to apply management and marketing concepts to the hospitality
and food service industry. Primary concepts include an understanding and application
of customer service, purchasing and receiving, point of sale marketing, inventory
control, staffing and personnel, and governmental regulations. Emphasis is placed
on working with professionals in the field and utilizing the concepts learned
in prior classes in the sport management and recreation field.
Credits: 3 s.h. |
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SMRT 435 - Program Planning Principles and methods of program development and delivery are explored. Emphasis is on understanding participant behavior, participant needs and the ways in which organizations create services to respond to those needs.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SMRT 470 - Therapeutic Recreation for the Older Adult and Persons with Chronic Illness This course provides an overview of the various concepts, principles, and practices related to the planning and delivery of therapeutic recreation and recreation and leisure services to persons with chronic illness and older adults.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SMRT 473 - Therapeutic Recreation Programming for Persons with Disabilities This course is designed to familiarize and prepare the student with the essential principles and elements involved in planning, organizing, conducting, supervising, and promoting therapeutic recreation programs. General modifications and adaptations necessary in facilities, equipment, and program design are examined for individuals with mental retardation; physical, social, or emotional disability; learning disability; mental illness; chronic illness; and the older adult. Emphasis is placed on practical application in a variety of settings to better meet the needs, interests, and potential of persons with disabilities.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SMRT 474 - Child Life Concepts and Theories in Working with the Hospitalized Child This course is designed to introduce the field of child life by focusing on its evolution and modern-day concepts, as well as theories related specifically to its implementation in a health care setting. Concepts include child life in a health care setting, the effects of hospitalization on children, the role of recreation/ play in a hospital setting, design of a play area, and working with children and families under stress.
Prerequisites & Notes SMRT 272 or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SMRT 476 - Child Life Clinical Issues and Techniques This course is designed to provide an overview of clinical issues and practical
techniques related to the delivery of child life services and the specialized
needs of hospitalized children, adolescents, and their families.
Prerequisites & Notes SMRT 272 and 474 or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3 s.h. |
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SMRT 480 - Resort and Commercial Recreation This course is an overview of the unique and dynamic nature of the resort and commercial recreation industry. Historical development and planning, development, management, and marketing of the commercial recreation business will be the focus of the course. Technological changes, the diversity of lifestyles, and sociological needs are examined in relation to their impact on the industry.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SMRT 481 - Problem Solving This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of higher order thinking processes associated with successful problem solving. Students visit major recreation enterprises and evaluate their operating systems. Emphasis is placed on the application of problem-solving methods in classroom and laboratory settings as they apply to these operating systems.
Prerequisites & Notes Undergraduates must receive permission from the instructor.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SMRT 482 - Undergraduate Seminar in Sport and Recreation The undergraduate seminar is a capstone course in which students explore and
develop strategies for utilizing Humanics to address current issues and trends
in the field. The course will culminate in students’ presenting the major issues
and trends in a public forum to professionals in the field.
Prerequisites & Notes Senior classification and within two semesters of graduation.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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SMRT 485 - Undergraduate Internship This internship provides practice, under professional supervision, in a variety
of recreation and leisure service agencies. Assignment of internship is based
upon the student’s choice of professional career. Students complete 450-600 hours
of internship work and complete all the projects required in the internship handbook.
Prerequisites & Notes A minimum of 90 semester hours of coursework or permission of the internship
supervisor and a minimum GPA of 2.50.
Credits: 12 s.h |
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SMRT 486 - Clinical Practicum in Child Life This course is designed to provide therapeutic recreation/child life students
with opportunities for observing, assisting, and utilizing child life interventions
in a clinical child life setting. This course is contracted under professional
supervision and assists students in defining career options, as well as qualifying
students for child life certification.
Credits: 10 s.h |
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SMRT 498 - Golf Course Management This course provides a detailed analysis of golf course operations and administration.
Topics include staffing, equipment, pro shop operations, landscape operations,
tee and greens construction, computerized irrigation and global positioning systems.
Upon completion, students should be able to understand the complicated roles and
functions of golf course operations.
Credits: 3 s.h. |
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YDEV 101 - Introduction to Youth Development This course focuses on issues related to the process of youth development and the skills necessary to being an effective youth development specialist, including self-awareness, relationship building, and basic assessment and referral skills. It offers a basic introduction to the field of youth development, exploring its historical roots and contemporary innovations and manifestations.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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YDEV 340 - Youth in Society This course is designed to provide a critical comparative framework for interpreting the experiences and perceptions of youth in the United States. We consider the ways that society portrays youth, the effect of corporate culture on youth, the expression of youth identities through experiences like the prom, the internet, fashion, and music. We look at real people’s experiences within these contexts, and see how they operate as spaces for youth to internalize and confront social power relations reflected in age, social class, racial and ethnic, and gendered norms.
Prerequisites & Notes SOCI 101.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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YDEV 388 - Special Topics in Youth Development This course is a comprehensive examination of a contemporary issue or social problem related to youth development and/or youth serving agencies.
Credits: 3 s.h |
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YDEV 486 - Supervised Internship in Youth Development This course is an individually contracted, practical experience under professional supervision in a youth serving agency. It is intended to assist the student in exploring and confirming career goals, as well as to apply theory and methods outside of the classroom. Students engage in 45 clock hours of supervised internship per semester hour of credit.
Credits: 3-9 s.h |
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