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Recreation Practicum

Course Code:
REC 361
Course Group(s):
Degree Applicable, Integrative Studies: RECR Program Options, RECR: Experiential Cluster, Responsibility & Expression - Integrated, Social & Cultural Engagement - Integrated
Course Description:
This practical experience course takes students through planning, implementation and analysis of week-long nature-based expedition to a destination based within the continental United States or Canada. Destinations will be selected for the variety of front-country and backcountry locations available to provide students with a diversity of adventure and/or ecotourism-based experiences. These experiences include a sampling of adventure activities, lodging facilities, travel means, and service providers. The first part of the course will involve adventure prioritization, resource and time management decisions as the students design their itinerary. During this trip, which will take place during the week-long mid-semester break, students will critically analyze their experiences through the lens of sustainable tourism to discuss and determine the degree to which each and every experience and venue is nature-based, conservation-minded, and beneficial to the cultures and economies of local communities. Once the students return to campus, this analysis will be used to evaluate the detailed itinerary drafted in the planning segment of the course to critically consider the planning elements of their trip and further develop their expedition planning skills. Students are obliged to practice principles of ?green? or sustainable nature-based tourism. This course entails an additional fee above tuition. There is a course fee associated with the course. Prerequisite(s) REC 240 Outdoor Education Program Design & Planning and REC 320 Sustainable Nature-Based Tourism. Completes General Education Requirements:SC-I, RE-I.
Credit:
4
Prerequisites:
Prereq: REC 320 Lecture (May be taken concurrently) Min Grade: D Min Credits: 3.00 Or REC 320 Hybrid (May be taken concurrently) Min Grade: D Min Credits: 3.00 And REC 240 Lecture Min Grade: D Min Credits: 3.00
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