| FIRST YEAR | ||
| First Semester | Hours | |
| ENG-120 | Composition I *ENG-120Students will study the writing process by reading essays that illustrate a variety of rhetorical strategies, analyzing writing tasks and texts, and writing, revising, and editing short essays.
| 3.0 |
| REC-180 | Leadership/Recreat REC-180A theoretical overview of topics of leadership, group dynamics, and motivation as they relate to the field of recreation, and how it can be applied to specific situations.
| 3.0 |
| MAT-125 | Statistics *MAT-125Application of elementary principles of descriptive statistics including frequency distribution, graphical presentation, measures of center, location and variation. Elements of probability, sampling techniques, binomial and normal distribution, correlation/regression and hypothesis testing. Graphing calculator and Excel required.
| 3.0 |
| BIO-100 | Bio Science I BIO-100This course provides an introduction to the fundamental processes and structures common to all living things along with their applications to society.
| 4.0 |
| HUM-150 | Humanities Through the Arts HUM-150Students will survey the human condition as revealed through the arts, including an examination of painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, drama, film, photography, and music.
| 3.0 |
Semester Totals |
16.0 | |
| Second Semester | ||
| ENG-121 | Composition II *ENG-121Students will learn how to find, use, assess and document research sources, producing an extended writing project based primarily on library research.
| 3.0 |
| REC-181 | Intro/Comm Recreat REC-181To introduce to the student the historical development of the recreation profession in the United States and to give the student an exposure to professional recreational organizations and their services.
| 3.0 |
| CHM-101 | Physical Science II CHM-101An introductory discussion of chemical principles. Presents a balance between basic knowledge needed to understand the uses of chemicals and applications of chemicals in everyday life.
| 3.0 |
| MUS-229 | Understanding Music MUS-229A survey of the musical forms and styles associated with classical music, focusing on representative musical masterworks and their composers. This music is presented in both a historical and a cultural framework.
| 3.0 |
| --- --- | Mathematics (IAI M) *--- ---
| 3.0 |
Semester Totals |
15.0 | |
| SECOND YEAR | ||
| First Semester | Hours | |
| SPE-111 | Intro to Speech Communication SPE-111Focuses on the fundamental principles and methods of selection, analyzing, organizing, developing and communicating information, evidence, and points of view to audiences.
| 3.0 |
| EDU-100 | Introduction to Education EDU-100An overview of the American education system. Social, historical and philosophical foundations give perspective to an examination of current issues, policies and trends in the field of education, including cultural diversity. A 30 hours practical lab is required for this course.
| 3.0 |
| ART-250 | Understanding Art ART-250A survey of the visual arts from Ancient to contemporary times, an understanding the major cultural and historical relationships to the art forms.
| 3.0 |
| PSY-271 | Intr/Psychology PSY-271Focuses on psychology as a science, introducing Concepts, research methods and research in a variety of subfields, including neuroscience, sensation and perception, consciousness, learning and memory, cognition, motivation and emotion, development, personality, disorders and therapy, and social psychology.
| 3.0 |
| REC-190 | Camping REC-190Students have the opportunity to learn outdoor living skills, camping equipment and techniques, orienteering skills. Two camping trips will be taken during the semester.
| 2.0 |
| REC-290 | Recreation for Special Groups REC-290Provides an introduction to concepts and principles of therapeutic recreation, type of illnesses and disability settings, programming and service, and the role of the therapeutic re-creator.
| 3.0 |
Semester Totals | 17.0 | |
| Second Semester | ||
| POS-160 | American National Government POS-160The fundamental principles of the American Government are summarized. Such topics as federalism, civil liberties, citizenship, parties and elections, the Presidency, Congress, Judiciary, and national policies and politics are discussed within the framework of the American Constitutional system.
| 3.0 |
| SOC-280 | Introduction to Sociology SOC-280Study of human interaction focusing on social influences shaping personality, structure and dynamics of human society. Topics include: sociological perspective, culture, society, social interaction; social change in global perspective; socialization; families; social class; and social stratification; race and ethnicity; and deviance.
| 3.0 |
| --- --- | Electives --- ---
| 7.0 |
| PED-285 | Fitness for Life PED-285An individual approach to assist students to develop a lifetime of wellness through fitness. The course includes a thorough physical fitness/risk factor assessment battery. Students will be required 2 hours of physical workout a week.
| 3.0 |
Semester Totals |
16.0 | |
Total Program Hours | 64.0 |
| Suggested Electives | ||
| HED-200 | Principles of Health HED-200This course is designed to explore the most important health issues current and past. Helping students to make responsible decisions that will affect them throughout their life. Focus will be on interrelating behavior with one's own health decisions.
| 3.0 |
| HED-178 | Responding to Emergencies HED-178The purpose of the American Red Cross Responding to Emergency course is to provide the citizen responder with the knowledge and skills necessary in an emergency to help sustain life.
| 2.0 |