Activity Programming for Children and Youth

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Course
CYCC 1150
Discontinued
No
Course Code
CYCC 1150
Descriptive
Activity Programming for Children and Youth
Department
Child and Youth Care
Faculty
Applied Community Studies
Credits
3.00
Start Date
End Term
202220
PLAR
Yes
Semester Length
15 weeks
Max Class Size
30
Contact Hours
60 Hours: Lecture
Method(s) Of Instruction
Lecture
Learning Activities

Lecture/Practice

Course Description
This course will provide students with opportunities to develop attitudes, conceptual frameworks and skills to select and create appropriate recreational activities for young people. The course will emphasize how activities can be adapted to different developmental levels and how activities can be used to facilitate leisure, educational and therapeutic goals.
Course Content

The following global ideas guide the design and delivery of this course:

  1. Recreation is "re-creation",self renewal, and is central to wellness.
  2. Recreation is essential to development and change throughout the lifespan.
  3. Recreation occurs in context.  Understanding the needs and values of individuals, practitioners, agencies, families and communities is the beginning place for effective recreational program development.
  4. Recreation can be solitary or communal. In the field of child and youth care, recreation is central to building and maintaining relationships.
  5. Creativity is a cornerstone of human development which inspires individuals to extend and enhance their sense of self.
  6. A recognition of human diversity in recreation and in life expands the possibilities of contact between people and "opens doors" to new worlds of recreational activities.
  7. Recreational planning is a collaborative activity - planning is done "with" or "between", rather than "to" or "for", the participants.
Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

  1. Purpose
    • Discuss the purpose of recreation with children and youth
    • Link recreation to personal wellness
  2. Assessment
    • Identify individual and group developmental needs
    • Assess systemic ecological contexts of children, youth and families prior to planning recreation
    • Identify a range of particular needs of individuals in specific populations of children and youth
  3. Design
    • Plan recreation activities based on assessment
    • Discuss levels of collaboration appropriate to developmental needs and contexts of specific populations of children and youth
    • Implement recreation activities appropriate to specific populations of children and youth
    • Monitor recreation activities and adapt to the energy and interest of the individual and/or group
  4. Diversity
    • Adapt aspects of recreation activities so that individuals with particular needs can participate
    • Identify and respond to emerging needs of individuals during recreation activities
    • Develop strategies to respond to conflict during recreation activities
  5. Evaluation
    • Self evaluate the process and outcome of recreation activities
    • State clear, supportive feedback to other practitioners about recreation activities they provide to individuals and groups.
Means of Assessment

This course will conform to Douglas College policy regarding the number and weighting of evaluations.

Typical means of evaluation will include a combination of written research assignments, case evaluation, testing, and group presentations. This is a Graded Course.

Textbook Materials

Textbooks and Materials to be Purchased by Students

T.B.A.

Prerequisites

Enrollment in CYCC Program