|
2021 Undergraduate Catalog 1.2 (SUMMER-FALL) [ARCHIVED CATALOG - Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]
Therapeutic Recreation (B.S.) - Hegis Code 2199
|
|
Return to: Programs of Study
(Bachelor of Science Degree)
Therapeutic recreation (TR) is the use of recreation, leisure, and play to improve or maintain physical, cognitive, social, and emotional functioning to assist individuals in experiencing independent lifestyles and satisfying leisure experiences. Comprehensive TR involves a continuum of service that includes treatment, leisure education, and independent recreation participation. The therapeutic recreation major at Utica College is one of very few programs in the nation that is strictly designed to educate and graduate recreation therapists with a Bachelor of Science degree in therapeutic recreation. Graduates of this program meet the requirements of the National Council on Therapeutic Recreation Certification to take the certification examination and become a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist. The program also is unique in that it is housed in the School of Health Professions and Education, which reflects the clinical-medical aspects of the major as well as the philosophical recreation foundation. Therapeutic Recreation graduates work in physical medicine and rehabilitation, mental and behavioral health, nursing homes and other programs serving older adults, residential care for people with developmental disabilities, youth programs, community based programs for people with and without disabilities…and other areas of professional accomplishment that demand a solid foundation in the liberal arts.
Special Requirements
The student in therapeutic recreation is required to achieve a minimum of C+ in each major course, a C average in major-related courses, and at least a B in the internship experience. Students must comply with the internship site rules and regulations regarding physical examinations and immunizations. Malpractice insurance is required for an internship course.
Learning Objectives
- Students will integrate an understanding of history, service models, theory, ethics, credentials, professional conduct, evidence-based practice, and professional development with therapeutic recreation practice.
- Students will develop competence to individually screen, assess, and systematically collect client data, develop individualized intervention plans, and utilize relevant documentation to track client progress toward attaining goals.
- Students will develop competence in planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating evidence-based therapeutic recreation intervention programs that identify functional outcome goals, modalities, and facilitation techniques used to restore, remediate, or rehabilitate client functioning and lead to the utilization and enhancement of an independent leisure lifestyle.
- Students will acquire specific skills with and knowledge of facilitation techniques in a range of modalities used as interventions for clients with medical and disabling conditions, disorders, and impairments affecting their physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and leisure functioning across the lifespan.
- Students will develop competence in the management, administration, and advancement of the profession of therapeutic recreation.
- Students will integrate an understanding of global society from diverse ethnic and cultural perspectives to enhance understanding of the needs of culturally diversified therapeutic recreation programs.
|
Academic Requirements
See Core section of this catalog.
Major Course Requirements
Major-Related Course Requirements
(*Some of the following may be used to satisfy core)
- BIO 101 - Anatomy & Physiology I (0, 4) *
- BIO 102 - Anatomy & Physiology II (0, 4) *
- PSY 101 - Introduction to Psychology (3) *
- PSY 211 - Statistics in the Behavioral Sciences (3) *
or - SOC 211 - Statistics in the Behavioral Sciences (3) *
or - MAT 112 - Basic Statistics (3) *
- HLS 245 - Human Development Across the Life Span (3)
or - PSY 223 - Life Span Developmental Psychology (3)
- HLS 445 - Clinical Research (3)
- PCL 375 - Death, Dying and Bereavement (3)
- ANT 415 - Cultures, Health, & Healing (3)
- PSY 361 - Abnormal Psychology (3)
- HLS 381 - Kinesiology (0,3)
- PSY 354 - Cognitive Psychology (0, 4)
or - EDU 201 - Applied Educational Psychology (3)
1-3 credit hours of an applied course in FIA, MUS, PED, WAE, or HLS
- IPE 102 - Introduction to Interprofessional Education (1)
or - IPE 504 - Interprofessional Practice and Leadership (1)
- IPE 505 - Interprofessional Educational Experience (0-1)
Electives
The student must complete sufficient elective courses to earn at least the minimum credit hours required for this degree, and at least 60 credit hours of the 120 required must be in the liberal arts and sciences.
Note:
* Students wishing information about the therapeutic recreation retention policy should consult with their academic advisor.
Program Credits
Core |
34-55 Credits |
Major Course Requirements |
44 Credits |
Major Related Course Requirements |
38-41 Credits |
College Electives |
0-7 Credits |
|
|
Total Credit Hours Required For Degree |
123 Credits |
|
Return to: Programs of Study
|
|