REC 100Introduction to the Study of Recreation and Leisure

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• bird course if the ta marking is super nice. decent amount of writing if thats ur thing. 4 x 5% content quizzes, all answers are in readings/textbook (ctrl f) but 20 questions in 25 minutes + 20% participation report (choose a leisure activity and answer questions) + 30% case report (choose a case study, answer questions) + 25% in class final (wrote this online, prof gave questions ahead of time and for actual test, 3 out of 10 are put on the test) + 5% professionalism (just be a normal student and polite). make sure to focus on apa citation a lot bc tas are super picky about that

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• THIS IS NOT A BIRD COURSE. DO NOT TAKE IT TO BOOST YOUR GPA
  Course content can be interesting but also long at times.
  Online quizzes were super easy
  The assignments were atrocious, I think it depends on the TA but this is not marked like a first-year course. Could barely get over a 70 on the case study and leisure activity papers. Can't even go over the grade you received with your TA because otherwise you could lose 5% for "professionalism"
  Look elsewhere for an easy course

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• Prof was nice and engaged with students sometimes. Content was useful for future rec courses, but it's just common sense. Really tried hard in this class and was disappointed to receive low final grade despite decent grades throughout semester.

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• Content was not that interesting. You had to write a fair bit as well, and that involves primary source research and citations. Overall I would have expected a bird course like this to be more chill. The readings were annoying to do as well. There were online quizzes for the content modules, and sometimes it wasn't clear where the answers were coming from. I ended up CTRL+F most of the questions in the modules and reading material just to figure out the answer.

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• Took this as an online course during the Winter term. Approximately 20 pages of reading per week, plus weekly modules to read through. Two assignments worth 20%, and 4 quizzes (multiple choice) worth 5% each (to make up 60% of your grade) and the exam is 40%. Exam is 5 long answer questions - but 10 possible questions that may appear on the exam are posted a week prior (so its easy to get high 90s on the exam, I got 100% with two days preparation). Overall, content is interesting and this is a bird course... as long as you don't mind doing readings (you don't need to make notes on them, just reading them is enough).

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