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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
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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 three credits.
Prerequisites & Notes
Approval by the chairperson of the department.
Credits: 3
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SMRT 404 - Advanced Outdoor Leadership and Expedition Planning
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 skill modules, two weekend trips, and one extended outdoor adventure expedition.
Prerequisites & Notes
SMRT 155 and 375. Instructor permission is required prior to registration. Fee required.
Credits: 6
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SMRT 405 - Historical Perspectives of Leisure and Recreation
This course traces the development of leisure and recreation services from ancient times through today. A holistic and comprehensive understanding of the significance of leisure and recreation in its historical, cultural, and social contexts is emphasized. The relationship between historical foundations and current issues is explored.
Credits: 2
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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
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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
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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: camp facilities and equipment, publicity, recruitment, insurance, programming, health and safety, budgetting and current issues.
Credits: 3
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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 organizations.
Credits: 3
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 and sport 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.
Credits: 3
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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.
Credits: 3
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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 and a minimum GPA of 2.50.
Credits: 12
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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: 5
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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
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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
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YDEV 186 - Pre-Practicum and Seminar in Youth Development
Students enrolled in this course are placed in a youth-serving agency in Springfield.
Students are required to complete 30 hours of service, shadowing an agency administrator. In addition, students participate in a weekly seminar that provides a forum for collaborative, critical inquiry based on their service experience.
Credits: 1
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YDEV 286 - Practicum and Seminar in Youth Development
Students enrolled in this course become part of the organizational and administrative
planning team that plans and delivers the YMCA’s Northeast Region Fall Leaders’ Rally. Students participate in a weekly seminar that fosters collaboration and ensures that planning for the event proceeds smoothly in a timely fsahion. The course offers
opportunities and frameworks for thinking about and analyzing event planning, including leadership development, organizational issues related to volunteer management, program development, marketing, recruiting, and program delivery.
Credits: 1
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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
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YDEV 386 - Practicum and Seminar in Youth Development
Students enrolled in this course work
independently, and under the direction of the
YMCA office, to design and deliver a program
that meets the needs of either the YMCA club
or a clearly defined group of youth. Students
participate in a weekly seminar that provides
a forum for collaborative, critical inquiry
based on their service experience.
Credits: 1
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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
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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
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