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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 FS RECR 200; one course chosen from RECR 220, RECR 240, RECR 250, or RECR 260; successful completion of computer literacy requirement; or faculty permission. Management approaches to budget and finance in recreation and park agencies and businesses; budget preparations, forecasting, accounting techniques, and capital acquisition. Review of revenue options, capital funding, and revenue sources included.
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3.00 Credits
3 FS Successful completion of computer literacy requirement, or faculty permission. Development of the ability to promote, publicize, mobilize, and coordinate private, commercial, and community recreation programs, services, resources, and activities to meet recreation needs. Development of public relations knowledge and skills necessary for managing a park and recreation agency, organization, or business. Covers working with print and electronic media. Special emphasis on market analysis, marketing, and promotion. Corporate Certification available from the American Hotel and Motel Association.
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3.00 Credits
3 FS RECR 200; concurrent enrollment in or prior completion of RECR 220, RECR 240, RECR 250, or RECR 260; or faculty permission. Introduction to the study of law applicable to the management of recreation resources in providing valuable recreational experiences for clientele of public and commercial recreation programs and facilities. Examines general legal principles, legal aspects of provision of services by the private sector, contracts and contracting for recreation and park services, legal authority and methods in resource-based recreation areas, and legal liability in parks, recreation, and athletic programs.
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3.00 Credits
3 FS RECR 200, concurrent enrollment in or prior completion of RECR 240 and RECR 300, completion of computer literacy requirement, or faculty permission. Basic course in planning for conservation of natural resources for recreation, and the development of comprehensive, area-wide recreation master-plans for cities, special districts, counties, regional planning areas, states, and federal areas. Includes principles of planning: problem identification, goal-setting, development of objectives and policies, assessment of needs, resources, and constraints, and the development and implemention of programs to meet needs.
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3.00 Credits
3 FS RECR 200, concurrent enrollment in or completion of RECR 240 and RECR 300, or faculty permission. Theoretical and applied concepts of citizen involvement in policy and management decisions for both public and private sectors of recreation resource management. Discussion of legal mandates, agency/organization credibility, applied methods for obtaining citizen input, and case studies.
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3.00 Credits
4 FS RECR 200, concurrent enrollment in or prior completion of RECR 240 and RECR 300, or faculty permission. Design principles and processes for recreation areas and facilities. Includes the practical experience of designing a specific recreation area or facility and its components. Field trips required.
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3.00 Credits
4 SP Upper-division standing, a basic oral communication course such as CMST 131, or faculty permission. Theory and application of environmental interpretation services to visitors in natural and cultural resource settings. Communication of environmental information to general public via audio-visual presentations, conducted trips, exhibits, nature trails, publications, and visitor centers.
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3.00 Credits
3 FA RECR 200, RECR 240, RECR 300, RECR 440, successful completion of computer literacy requirement, or faculty permission. Managing the interactions between natural resources and users to produce outdoor recreation. The outdoor recreation production function. Carrying capacity, limits of acceptable change, competition, and complementarity among recreation uses and between recreation uses and other resource uses. Methods for monitoring recreational impacts, and approaches to managing resource quality and recreational opportunities. Required field trip.
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3.00 Credits
3 FS RECR 200, RECR 240, computer literacy, or faculty permission. Development of economic tools to analyze the demand for and the supply of outdoor recreation, and factors affecting each. Economic impacts on local communities, pricing and paying for facilities.
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3.00 Credits
3 FS BIOL 342 or GEOS 130 or equivalent. Experiential-oriented survey of methods and materials for teaching environmental concepts in schools, communities, nature centers, camps, and parks. Exposure to history, theory, philosophy, and goals of environmental education programs.
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