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FTR807 - Therapeutic Recreation, Field Placement
This course is the final of four fieldwork placements for Therapeutic Recreation students. In keeping with previous fieldwork courses, this course includes a class component for final presentations, sharing clinical experiences, and the integration of the program?s academic content with therapeutic recreation work experience. As this is the final field component before graduation, students will be expected to have a full understanding of TR praxis and be ready to enter the clinical environment as recreation therapists.
Welcome to FTR807 ? Consolidation Seminar/Field Placement. Please read the addendum to the general subject outline carefully.
REM801 - Applied Research Paper in Therapeutic Recreation
This course will focus on the development and successful completion (meets the program degree criteria) of an applied research paper carried out under the direct supervision of an appropriate member of the faculty. Research papers will be based on the research proposals developed in the Research, Methods and Statistical Analysis course and be based on a field-relevant question and an appropriate methodology. Projects will attempt to contribute to the field by further developing research documented in the literature or propose a new direction for further research. Such papers will include a review of the literature (including the foundational work and theoretical components upon which the study is based), definitions of key terms and concepts, field and social relevance of the study, statement of methodology, a discussion of the ethical safeguards taken with human subjects, biases and assumptions, presentation of field and/or lab data, analysis and interpretation of the date, statement of the applied/practical implications, summary and implications for future research, an abstract and works cited and consulted. Students will also be required to present their findings to the field (college community or conference presentation, publication, community seminar, etc.).
TRC803 - Business Management
This course examines the different forms of business in Canada, the nature of business and employee management, entrepreneurship, managing information systems, and the four major business functions - production, marketing, finance, and personnel. The course content will focus on human services agencies and how they go about applying fundamental business practices. The skills and content learned in this course prepare students for careers in many areas in therapeutic recreation and leisure recreation and industry, both in the commercial and nonprofit sectors. Students will be able to apply business concepts to management roles or to their own businesses within a therapeutic recreation context.