Undergraduate - UnitEDF3613 - Trends, controversies and issues in sport and outdoor recreation

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Synopsis

This unit provides students with the opportunity to engage with and explore current trends, issues and controversies in sport and outdoor recreation. This includes: how humans relate to and manage sport and outdoor recreational environments; sport and outdoor recreation participation demographics and trends; sport and outdoor recreation policy; issues of sustainability, social justice and inclusion; contested histories and the development of professional ethics and standards in sport and outdoor recreation. Students engage with these topics through a team-based problem solving and/or action research approach.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should:

• be able to draw upon scholarly and public knowledge resources to identify and define current trends and issues of significance in outdoor recreation.
• be able to appreciate and understand how current research activity provides conceptual resources and empirical insights into the development of outdoor recreation policy and practice.
• be able to identify, collect, analyze and synthesize the current literature of conceptual and empirical relevance to one or more current trends and issues in outdoor recreation.
• be able to develop and apply rigorous strategies, such as problem based learning and/or action research, for exploring those trends and issues.
• be able to evaluate those issues and trends and to construct a coherent and logical argument that represents how outdoor recreation managers, guides and leaders should address them in practice.

Assessment

Two assessment tasks of 50% each (2000 words equivalent X 2 tasks) = 4000 words equivalent.

Chief examiner(s)

Associate Professor Phillip Payne

Contact hours

3 contact hours per week, 9 hours private study including readings, completions of set tasks and self-directed learning