This course examines social entrepreneurship as a means for improving individual and community well-being. Focus will be placed on learning and implementing tools which businesses, citizens, and consumers can use to address social issues. Students will complete the course with an understanding of their personal responsibility and role as community/ global citizen which will aid them in their career development. Particular emphasis may be placed on the role of social entrepreneurship in addressing issues related to social justice, inclusion, and sustainable management practices. Read more about REC 218 – Social Entrepreneurship for Social Change
This course examines the employment of recreation, sport, and tourism to transform, enliven, and/or alter community spaces. In doing so, it explores the potential of (re)shaping, (re)territorializing, and (re)making the built environment with the intent of interpreting, narrating, and imagining places to inscribe them with meaning and value. With an emphasis on principles of transformative placemaking, students are encouraged to envision meaningful alterations of places to better meet the needs of communities.
An examination and discussion of the definitions, concepts and theories used in recreation and leisure studies. The seminar seeks to identify and discuss current theories, methods, and issues, and to examine the concepts of professionalism and scientific inquiry as they apply to the field of recreation. Read more about REC 600 – Integrative Seminar in Recreation and Leisure Studies
This course covers concepts, theories, models, and issues relevant to understanding relationships between leisure and community. Areas of discussion may include the roles of leisure as a context for community building and development, critical understandings of relationships between community and leisure, as well as approaches to community building through leisure. Opportunities for experiential and collaborative learning will form major components of the course and a volunteer placement may be required. Read more about REC 356 – Leisure and Community
Feminist analysis on the relationships between gender, leisure and the family. Gendered aspects of leisure in a variety of social and cultural contexts, including families, informal and social settings, organized leisure and the media. Issues of resistance and reconstruction of gender relations and leisure as a form of political practice. Read more about Brock University - RECL 4P43 – Gender, Leisure, and Families
The scope and nature of tourism as a contemporary leisure experience is examined along with economic, political and social ramifications, research strategies employed, and implications for the future. Read more about REC 280 – Introduction to Tourism
