Recreation, Adventure Education And Leisure Management
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Examines travel and tourism as an element of leisure service supply from an interdisciplinary perspective. This course focuses on the study of recreation behaviors in several environments—the great outdoor, cities, and specialized settings. In explicit, students develop a deeper understanding of how these three completely different environments support or restrict various recreation behaviors. The course employs a holistic definition of environment that includes bodily settings, social norms, and policies, all of which impact recreation behaviors. To perceive the complex relationships between environments and recreation, the course applies theories and methodologies developed within the area of surroundings and conduct—spanning psychology, sociology, city planning, and panorama architecture.
Provides college students with professional career exploration experiences that contain growing networking data and expertise while partaking with recreation, sport, and tourism business alumni and professionals in their places of work, businesses, and services. Students are uncovered to best practices and current challenges within the trade, and are given opportunities to make connections for internships, mentorship, and career development. Survey of travel and tourism with emphasis upon tourist habits, motivations, preferences, determination-making, points of interest, transportation providers, amenities and information sources.
Both on- and off-campus experiences might be performed and may involve day/overnight tenting, canoeing, kayaking, mountaineering, rappelling, caving, ropes programs, and orienteering. Introduces the structure and scope of the travel/tourism and hospitality business, the largest national employment base in non-public industry.
Throughout the course, students focus on how gender, race-ethnicity, and socio-economic standing can contribute to shaping the relationships between environments and … Read More
