Faculty of Applied Health Sciences

Joint Honours Bachelor of Arts Recreation and Leisure Studies degrees are available with: drama, English, environment and resource studies, geography and environmental management, history, legal studies, music, political science, psychology, social development studies, sociology, and speech communication. Joint Honours Bachelor of Arts Recreation and Sport Business degrees are available with: speech communication. Joint Honours Bachelor of Arts Therapeutic Recreation degrees are available with: fine arts; history; psychology; and religious studies. For joint honours degrees, where the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies is the home department, the requirements will be:

1. Recreation and leisure studies core requirements (4.0 units): REC 100, 101, 205, 220, 270, 371, REC 471A/B or two 400 level REC courses.
2. All non-department required courses (3.0 units): PSYCH 101, SOC 101, and four restricted electives.
3. Joint honours requirements from the second department.
4. Additional Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies electives (minimum 5.0 units).
5. A minimum of 9.0 recreation units in total.
6. A minimum of 20.0 units in total.
7. Major average requirements for each department must be maintained. (The overall average is that of the home department.)

Notes:

1. Any student pursuing a joint honours degree with the Faculty of Arts should be advised that the arts faculty restricts the number of double counted courses between arts requirements and recreation and leisure studies requirements to a maximum of 1.0 unit.
2. When the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies is not the home department, a student wishing to pursue a joint honours degree with Honours Recreation and Leisure Studies, Honours Recreation and Sport Business, or Honours Therapeutic Recreation must complete the honours requirements with the exception of the four restricted elective courses (2.0 units). In some joint honours plans REC 270 and REC 371 are fulfilled by the antirequisites in the home department. Two additional recreation electives (1.0 unit) are therefore required to meet the minimum of 9.0 recreation units.
3. Students wishing to pursue a joint honours degree in Honours Recreation and Sport Business or Honours Therapeutic Recreation must complete the honours requirements in addition to points 3-7 of the joint honours degree requirements listed above.

Further information concerning joint honours degrees may be obtained from the associate chair, undergraduate studies and the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies Undergraduate Student Handbook. If a student wishes to pursue a joint honours degree with another department not listed above, s/he should contact the associate chair, undergraduate studies.