Requirements
One of the following:
| HFS 21500 | Introduction to Health and Fitness Sciences | 3 |
| REC 10200 | Introduction to Recreation, Sport and Tourism | 3 |
All students must complete the following core courses:
REC 48200 Added after publishing - July addendum 07/01/2019**
Basic Skills Courses:
Students may apply three credit hours of basic skills courses toward the electives in any emphasis area listed below. This would include any three credit hour combination of the following courses:
or an approved REC Special Topics courses.
Recreation Professional Exam
Students majoring in Recreation, Sport, and Tourism Management must take the recreation professional exam during their final semester on campus to complete the degree requirements. The recreation professional exam is administered in:
Areas of Emphasis
In addition to the REC core courses, students must complete one of the following areas of emphasis: outdoor and adventure education, sport and fitness management, therapeutic recreation, general recreation.
Outdoor and Adventure Education Emphasis
12 credit hours
Required courses:
Two of the three classes below:
Sport and Fitness Management Emphasis
12 credit hours
Required courses:
| EXS 36000 | Exercise Principles for Optimal Performance | 4 |
| HFS 20400 | Care and Prevention | 3 |
| PE 33000 | Psychological Aspects of Physical Education | 3 |
| REC 38300 | Recreational Sports Management | 3 |
Therapeutic Recreation Emphasis
12 credit hours
Required courses:
General Recreation Emphasis
12 credit hours
The general recreation emphasis is fulfilled when a student completes 24 credit hours of coursework selected from among the following departments, selected based on the students interests and career goals: art and design (AAD), accounting (ACCT), American studies (AST), biological sciences (BSC), criminology and criminal justice (CCJ), communications (COM), dance (DAN), Earth sciences (ESC), education (EDU), exercise science (EXS), health fitness sciences (HFS), human resource management (HRM), management (MGMT), marketing (MRKT), music (MUS), nonprofit administration (NPA), physical education (PE), public administration (PS), psychology (PSY), recreation, sport, and tourism management (REC), sociology (SOC), sport management (SPMGT), social work (SW), and/or theater (TA). Selection of courses should be in consultation with the student’s advisor and may all be in one discipline or several. It is strongly recommended to complete a minor in one of the disciplines above for partial fulfillment of the general recreation emphasis.