Fall 2019 Course Syllabi

General Education Goals/Objectives: • Critically analyze program and physical accessibility for an agency. • Analyze the skills necessary to develop accessible programs and physical accessible facilities. • Describe the history and value of accessibility for individuals with disabilities, and the responsibilities of the agency providing services. • Describe and evaluate the laws that apply to parks, recreation and leisure services. Define the Resource agencies available to assist with accessibility questions, and Department of Justice Complaints. Relationship to Campus Theme: The Accessibility and Public Policy in parks, recreation and leisure services course provides an introduction to physical accessibility and public policy in leisure services for individuals providing services in the field of Recreation, Parks Management, and Commercial Recreation Classroom Policies: • Regular participation in the class is expected. • Every assignment is done online or in your community and then sent to the Instructor through an assignment drop box located within the course. Quizzes/Tests are completed online. Students are NOT expected to come to the campus at any time. • All quizzes and exams can be taken on any computer with Internet access. • Quizzes and exams can be taken at home, in a library, and/or some other setting that has a suitable testing environment. • Students need to select a testing environment conducive for testing such as a distraction- free area at home, a computer lab at a library, etc. • Exams may be taken during set dates and times. The dates and time period are posted on the course calendar. • Each quiz/test will be available for a 3-5 day period on a date set by the instructor. Students can take a quiz/test at any time during the 3-5 day period. • Quizzes and test are given for a limited time only. • Each quiz/test will be available for a limited period of time (15-90 minutes) depending upon the number of questions. • Expectations: There are ten quizzes, and three test that are given during the course of the semester. The type of questions on the quizzes and tests are multiple choice, true/false, fill in the blank, short essay, essay and matching. The final is comprehensive. • Tests are comprised primarily of multiple choice, true/false, fill in the blank and matching. Quizzes have approximately 5 questions each and tests have around 25 questions each. A comprehensive final of 100 points is given at the end of the course.