Required of all recreation majors. This course will examine administrative issues regarding personnel in leisure delivery systems. An integrative view of revenue production for leisure service organizations. An examination of the critical functions of a manager in public and private leisure service organizations. Particular topics include goal and policy development, ethics, risk management, fiscal management, and facility operations.
Special attention is given to the leisure service managers role in marketing recreation.
This course will study the various issues and trends that affect leisure delivery systems. This course will be the culminating seminar for graduate students in Recreation. This course focuses on professional skills necessary at the administrative and supervisory level. Program and staff development, conference presentations, and in-service training, grantsmanship, article writing, budgeting, consultation, and public relations comprise the core of the course. Planning, organizing, selecting, evaluating, and adapting activities to a variety of institutional and community settings.