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Recreation, Parks and Tourism – Therapeutic Recreation

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Therapeutic recreation prepares students for employment opportunities in clinical and community settings that offer therapeutic recreation services to people with illnesses and disabling conditions. Such settings include general hospitals and rehabilitation centers, psychiatric hospitals and mental health services, nursing homes, correctional facilities and community recreation departments. This option also offers concentration in aging, child life, at-risk youth, and correctional recreation. See departmental adviser for details. To remain ‘on track’ for this major, a student must meet the following critical tracking criteria. The critical tracking courses appear in bold.

Semester 1:

  • 2.0 UF GPA required for semesters 1-5

  • Complete 1 of the 9 critical tracking courses (PSY2012, SYG2000, CLP3144, HSC3531, PET2320C, PET2350C, (ENC2210 or AEE3033C), (EDF3110 or DEP3053), (SPC2600 or AEE3030C)

Semester 2:

  • Complete 2 additional critical tracking courses

 

Semester 3:

  • Complete 3 additional critical tracking courses

Semester 4:

  • Complete all 9 critical tracking courses

Semester 1

Credits

SYG 2000 Principles of Sociology (GE-S)

3

Composition (GE-C, GR-W)

3

Mathematics (GE-M, GR-M)

3

Humanities (GE-HI)

3

Elective

3

__

 

Total

15

Semester 2

Credits

ENC 2210 Technical Writing (GE-C, GR-W) or AEE 3033C Writing for Natural and Agricultural Resources

3

PSY 2012 General Psychology (GE-S)

3

Mathematics (GE-M, GR-M)

3

Humanities (HI) or Physical or Biological Science (GE-P/B)

3

Elective

3

__

 

Total

15

Semester 3

Credits

PET 2320C Human Anatomy with Lab (GE-B)

4

EDF 3110 Human Growth and Development (GE-S) or DEP 3053 Developmental Psychology (GE-S)

3

HSC 3531 Health & Medical Terminology

3

Cognate Course

2

Elective

3

__

 

Total

15

Semester 4

Credits

SPC 2600 Introduction to Public Speaking or AEE 3030C Oral Communication

3

CLP 3144 Abnormal Psychology (GE-S)

3

PET 2350C Applied Human Physiology with Lab (GE-B)

4

Cognate Courses (LEI 3760 is required for Aging)

5

__

 

Total

15

 

 

Semester 5

Credits

LEI 3140 Philosophy & History of Recreation (GE-H)

3

LEI 3820 Leisure Education & Counseling

2

LEI 3400 Recreation Programming and

 

Leadership

4

LEI 3703 Foundations of Therapeutic Recreation

3

LEI 3705 Leisure Services for People with Disabilities

3

__

 

Total

15

Semester 6

Credits

LEI 3180 Trends in Leisure Services

3

LEI 3921 Field Experience

3

LEI 4711 Program Planning and Evaluation of Therapeutic Recreation

3

LEI 4501 Legal Aspects of RPT

3

Cognate Course (GEY 4930 is required for Aging

 

LEI 4770 is required for Correctional)

4

__

 

Total

16

Semester 7

Credits

LEI 4570 Revenue Resources Management

3

LEI 4713 Principles and Practices of Interventions in Therapeutic Recreation

4

LEI 4540 Management and Supervision of

 

Leisure Facilities and Personnel

4

LEI 4880 Evaluation of Leisure Services

3

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Total

14

Semester 8

Credits

LEI 4940 Internship in Leisure

 

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