PLA Portfolio Assessment Course Subjects

Recreation

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Recreation for Handicapped   (SPE-312)   3 credits  

Course Description
Historical review of therapeutic recreation; identification of special populations including the study of etiology, characteristics, terminology, and support systems; facility design, use, and adaptation; field trips to settings serving the mentally and physically handicapped, the developmentally disabled, the aged, the convalescent, and the socially deviant.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Trace and discuss the historical and philosophical roots of therapeutic recreation
• Discuss the philosophical connection between health and recreation
• Indicate the necessary adaptations and/or accommodations for disabled persons related to the planning of field trips
• Comment on the need for inclusive community facilities and the characteristics of effective facilities
• Indicate the role of physical literacy in the training of professionals charged with developing inclusive therapeutic recreational practices
• List and explain several adaptive sports and games which are effectively enacted for persons with disabilities (mentally, physically, developmentally, socially disabled)

 

First Aid, CPR, and Safety   (FIT-190)   3 credits  

Course Description
This course is intended to be a primer in basic safety procedures and preventive safety in the recreation and sports industries with an emphasis on the fitness segment of the industry. The course explores the basic skills required to give emergency care in a fitness facility including basic first aid, CPR, and the use of an automatic external defibrillator (AED). The course also includes an orientation to the basics of accident prevention in fitness and related facilities.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Provide the basic skills necessary to engage in emergency first aid procedures that are pertinent to health and fitness-related facilities, including life-threatening emergencies such as heart attack.
• Provide an overview of the prevention of accidents in health and fitness-related facilities as well as other recreation and functionally related facilities. The goal is that the student can take notice of potential hazards in such facilities and report them to the senior management or correct them when appropriate.
• Appropriate certificates and articulation of the application/use of the knowledge must be included.

 

Outdoor Recreation Resource Management   (FOR-321)   3 credits  

Course Description
Principles of outdoor recreation resource management, administrative policy, program development, management planning, user preference, and individual and group influences in relation to administrative objects.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Provide a detailed list of administrative policies that need to be maintained to meet the organizations needs and those of local, state and national requirements (policies include but are not limited to; liability, child safety, health and safety, staff, facilities and programing).
• Discuss a program outline for a selected topic (nature discovery, horseback riding, basket weaving, swimming, kayaking, etc.) including who develops and writes the program, who schedules the program, who selects the staff to deliver the program, who delivers the program, and who evaluates the program.
• Explain a planning outline for two of the following organizational needs:
  • Facilities maintenance and improvement (annual)
  • Staff training (annual)
  • Programing (annual)
  • Organizational Strategic Planning (3-5 years)
• Compare and contrast recreational recourse use conflicts including the key players, their interests, the role of the resource manager, the role of the public and the final outcome for at least three conflicts.

 

Recreation Facilities and Management   (REC-341)   3 credits  

Course Description
Recreation Facilities and Management - A study of the design and management of facilities and areas for leisure enjoyment, including use of existing facilities, feasibility studies, site selection, principles of planning, construction and maintenance procedures.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Explain facility and park design and their relationship to program planning and usage
• Explain principles and theory of the management of facility personnel
• Explain the concept and use of leisure resources to facilitate participant involvement
• Implement principles and procedures related to the operation and care of resources, areas and facilities
• Conduct facility feasibility studies.

 

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