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Recreation Management and Youth Leadership |
RECREATION MANAGEMENT AND YOUTH LEADERSHIP
Chair: S. Harold Smith
Graduate Coordinator: Daniel D. Ferguson
273-F RB
Provo, UT 84602-2030
(801) 378-3382
THE PROGRAM OF STUDIES
The Department of Recreation Management and Youth Leadership offers one degree: Recreation Administration—MS. The degree focuses on recreation management philosophy, theory, research, evaluation, and administration. Studies in optional interest areas such as therapy, outdoors, or youth leadership are only available through choice of an internship site in the professional program, or choice of a research subject in the thesis program.
Each spring the department accepts from ten to twelve new students who begin their studies sometime during the next year. Most of these students choose to begin their course work in the fall semester of that year, but others begin as early as spring or summer terms or as late as the winter semester of the next year. The average student graduates after two years of course work, which includes either an internship in the professional program or completion of a thesis in the thesis track.
Recreation Administration—MS
The MS degree has two program options: (1) the thesis program, which includes original research work and culminates in writing a thesis, or (2) the professional program, which involves extensive internship experience and writing two professional papers.
The department is not admitting students for the 1997-98 academic year.
Admission and Entry.
Requirements for Degree.
Thesis Option (30): 24 course work hours plus 6 thesis hours (RMYL 699R).
Professional Option (36): 33 course work hours plus 3 internship hours (RMYL 599R).
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
Graduate awards are available in the form of assistantships and scholarships. Occasionally some graduate faculty members are awarded research grants that may include opportunities for paid research assistantships for department graduate students.
RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Office of Youth Research and Development. The Department of Recreation Management and Youth Leadership sponsors the Office of Youth Research and Development. This research facility is the center of research, evaluation, and development work within the department. The research work within this center frequently utilizes the services of the department graduate students. It is also a resource for research materials concerning youth leadership topics.
Learning Resource Center. This center contains eighteen individual study areas for graduate students as well as computer, audio, and video equipment to assist them in their work.
Faculty research interests currently include: Family Recreation; Gerontology; Leisure Behavior; Educational Values of Play; Recreation Administration; Recreation Therapy; Community School Leadership; Youth Leadership; Youth at Risk.
For a more detailed description of the graduate program requirements, send for a copy of the department's bulletin.
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
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599R. Internship. (1-8)
Prerequisite: instructor's consent.
Professional leadership practicum.
600. Graduate Seminar. (1)
Requirements for graduates in RMYL, including APA format, library research, timetables, and deadlines; required courses and departmental procedures for both prospectus reviews and oral examinations.
610. Research Methods in Recreation. (3)
Preparing research proposals and guidelines for thesis writing.
611. Philosophical Foundations in Recreation. (3)
Prerequisite: formal acceptance into recreation management graduate program.
Review of philosophical foundations and conceptual bases for recreation and leisure in society.
619. Needs Assessment in Community Planning. (3)
Prerequisite: RMYL 610.
On-location data analysis and scientific report writing of a professional project.
650. Issues in Leisure and Recreation. (3)
Prerequisite: formal acceptance into recreation management graduate program.
Graduate seminar on current issues and trends in leisure studies and recreation.
685. Recreation Administration. (3)
Prerequisite: formal acceptance into recreation management graduate program.
Emphasis in managing, organizing, budgeting, and staffing issues, as well as personnel administration, policy development, strategic planning, administrative practices, etc.
694. Readings in Recreation Literature and Research. (2)
Readings from professional literature; group discussion.
699R. Master's Thesis. (1-9)
FACULTY 
CATHERALL, THOMAS S., Professor. EdD, Brigham Young University, 1980. Youth Research; Education and Play.
FERGUSON, DANIEL D., Associate Professor. PhD, University of Oregon, 1980. Therapeutic Recreation; Gerontology; Computer Applications.
GRAY, HOWARD R., Professor. PhD, Pennsylvania State University, 1977. Therapy; Gerontology.
NAYLOR, JAY H., Professor. EdD, University of Utah, 1973. Administration.
NELSON, DOUGLAS C., Associate Professor. PhD, University of New Mexico, 1995. Youth Research; Outdoor Recreation
OLSEN, BURTON K., Associate Professor. PhD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1970. Research.
PHELAN, C. MICHAEL, Assistant Professor. PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1992. Leisure Studies; Management.
SMITH, S. HAROLD, Professor. PhD, University of Utah, 1974. Family Recreation; Leisure Behavior.
THORSTENSON, CLARK T., Professor. PhD, University of Utah, 1969. Therapeutic Recreation.
WIDMER, MARK A., Assistant Professor. PhD, University of Utah, 1993. Therapeutic Recreation; Assessment; Adolescence.
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