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REC 201Introduction to Leisure, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for Just Communities

Units
0.50
Faculty
Health
Subject
Recreation and Leisure Studies

When it runs

  1. F24
  2. W25
  3. S25
  4. F25
  5. W26
  6. S26
  7. F26
  8. W27
  9. S27

Ran in 3 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

This course focuses on how justice, equity, and liberation can be taken up within and promoted through recreation, leisure, and community. Emphasis is placed on just communities that put liberation of all peoples at the forefront of relations including self-care, community care, and environmental care. It explores why social justice matters by introducing issues related to inclusivity, privilege, power, marginalization, identities, and oppression. Topics for critique and resistance may include, but are not limited to gentrification, capitalism, settler colonialisms, environmental injustice, and other systemic barriers at play within our leisure lives and communities.

Prerequisites

  • Students must be in level 2A or higher

Antirequisites

None listed.

Leads to

No course lists it as a requisite.

Fall 2026 sections

Enrolment from UW Open Data, which can trail Quest by up to two days. Instructors and rooms: Schedule of Classes.
SectionClassEnrolledMeets
LEC 0812870198 / 200Online or by arrangement

Reviewed on UW Flow

50% liked it84% easy43% useful

From 20 ratings and 9 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

  • i liked this class. i didnt find the content to be dry, and had a lot of fun writing the papers and reflecting. for those of you wanting to do professional grad schooling (i.e. medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, law, etc), this course is super interesting and useful in terms of ethics and situations (assignments give you scenarios and basically ask you to explain your thought process, what you'd do, action plan, etc.)

    Dec 2025 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • If I'm being honest, as much as this class is pretty easy the content is pretty boring. You don't even need to read the modules, just do the assignments. There are 3 assignments + 1 final paper. There were some modules that were interesting but the rest were just meh.

    Dec 2025 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • This is the most ridiculous class I have ever had to take. Pointless, frivolous nonsense. You're forced to take this class in 2nd year Rec, and it truly made me want to drop the whole institution at times. Not only will you be faced with single-sided, poorly-researched "facts", you will also be allowed to go to social media for reference. I am appalled that I am paying for this. You don't even have to look at the modules to pass the class, all you have to do is answer the weekly reflection questions and submit the two assignments and you will be fine. Never once did I expect to spend thousands of dollars to be asked how I feel.
    The prof was also very unhelpful when it came to answering…

    Nov 2023 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • Important information that all student looking to work with people, or in general wanting to better humans themselves. Super informative on a plethora of injustices that are present in our word, and way to work against them. Interesting and relatively quick readings with many tedtalks and videos, all the teacher asked of you is to do the work/reflections and you will get a great grade. Highly recommend!

    Nov 2021 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • The information is up-to-date, accurate, and easy to understand. Course does not have any quizzes, the only assignments are weekly reflections (easy to get 100%!) and a community resources binder that you should work on throughout the term. This actually allowed me to learn course content rather than forget it all immediately after finishing a test. Congrats LB for being a lovely, caring professor who actually cares about their students by messaging them through difficult times. Your love is appreciated, truly. Absolutely outstanding!

    Nov 2021 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

Discussed on r/uwaterloo

One post or comment in 1 thread mentions REC 201, October 2017 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.

Fall 2017

Any way to disable UWCourseLinker from posting? 16 points, 26 comments

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