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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 440 - Ethics in Sport and Recreation
This course examines major ethical theories and their relation to the development of personal and professional ethics in sport management and recreation practioners. The differences between ethics and morality will be analyzed and selected codes of ethics will be presented for review and discussion. The application of ethical decision making and problem solving in sport and recreation will be explored.
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
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 480 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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Youth Development |
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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.
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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