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2023-2024

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Majors

Recreation and Leisure Studies

Joint Honours Recreation and Leisure Studies

Joint Honours Recreation and Leisure Studies plans are available with Communication Studies; English; Environment, Resources and Sustainability; Geography and Environmental Management; History; Legal Studies; Music; Political Science; Psychology; Social Development Studies; Sociology; and Theatre and Performance. Joint Honours Recreation and Sport Business plans are available with Communication Studies. Joint Honours Therapeutic Recreation plans 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 are:

  1. Required recreation courses (4.0 units): REC 100, REC 101, REC 120, REC 201, REC 371, REC 373, REC 405, REC 420, in addition to specific degree requirements.
  2. Courses outside the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies (1.0 unit): HEALTH 107, PSYCH 101, in addition to specific degree requirements.
  3. Joint honours requirements from the second major.
  4. Additional recreation courses to total 9.0 units.
  5. A minimum of 20.0 units in total.
  6. Major average requirements for each major 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 Faculty of Arts restricts the combination of specific academic programs or plans. Students should refer to the Invalid Credential Combinations page of this Calendar. Students should confirm any plan combination with their academic advisor.
  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 must complete the honours requirements with the exception of the four restricted elective courses (2.0 units). In some joint honours plans, REC 371 and REC 373 may be 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 3-6 of the joint honours degree requirements listed above.

Further information regarding joint honours degrees may be obtained from an academic advisor 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, they should contact the associate chair, undergraduate studies.


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