KRLS 497 - Selected Topics in Physical Education, Recreation and Leisure Studies

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, VARIABLE)

A course offered on a topic of current interest in physical education and sport. Topics may vary from year to year. Prerequisite: Consent of Faculty. Credit will be granted for only one of KRLS 497 or PERLS 497.

KSR 504 - The History of Outdoor Pursuits: Nature, Sport, Parks, and Travel

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 0-3S-0)

This seminar explores nature, sport, parks, and travel at the crossroads of environmental and cultural history. It concerns ideas about nature expressed through outdoor pursuits and leisure from the 19th to the 21st century. Modern influences framed and promoted many outdoor pursuits and environments as natural, yet they were also culturally defined. Focused on Canada with international tangents, it studies conservation, adventure, wilderness, recreation, tourism, play, health, and body culture in outdoor life. Seminars may include topics such as natural history and field science, park origins and advocacy, mountaineering and paddling, snow sports and winter pastimes, expeditions and tours, wildlife and guiding, urban design and parks, outdoor education, youth movements and camps, nature art and literature, heritage and festivals, and tourism traced in cultural landscapes. Teaching encourages students from various disciplines to engage with history. Collaborative seminars and field trips incubate individualized research and writing to understand past and present concerns of people, place, and politics related to leisure and sustainability. Note: Credit will be granted for only one of KSR 504, KRLS 504 or PERLS 504.

RLS 325 - Public Policy in Recreation, Sport and Tourism

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

The course develops a critical understanding of public policy and governance in relation to sport, recreation and tourism. It is intended to help students to understand the rationale for public policy, the processes that form it, the governance context in which it is created and implemented, and its implications for the delivery of recreation, sport and tourism.

KRLS 204 - Canadian History of Leisure, Sport, and Health

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

An introductory examination of Canadian leisure, sport, physical cultures, recreation, tourism, and health, in a global world, since the 19th century. Topics are integrated to understand the past in order to think broadly and critically through historical study of culture and society. Prerequisite: KRLS 104. Credit will be granted for only one of KRLS 204 or PERLS 204.