REC 311Event Management
- Faculty
- Health
- Last listed
- Spring 2020
No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog since at least Winter 2020 (as far back as Open Data goes) to Spring 2020 and last ran in Winter 2020. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.
When it ran
- W20
Ran in 1 term, Winter 2020 to Winter 2020.
Students will gain a broad understanding of event management from a theoretical and applied perspective with an emphasis on best practices and current trends utilizing case studies throughout. Students will gain an understanding of the breadth of the event "industry" and the various impacts of special events. The course includes instruction in the core areas of event planning, logistics, risk management, human resources, sponsorship and financial management, event marketing, and evaluation techniques.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: Level at least 3A
Reviewed on UW Flow
80% liked it100% easy75% useful
From 5 ratings and 1 comment on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.
Huge group project, two midterms and guest speaker engagement at the end of term
Jan 2020 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this
Discussed on r/uwaterloo
4 posts and comments in 3 threads mention REC 311, March 2015 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.
Winter 2020
REC 311 (Event Management) 4 points, 0 comments
u/Varunan24: “If anyone is currently enrolled or has taken this course prior, it will be greatly appreciated if you can provide some help! I wanted to know how the course is broken down (Course Outline) along with your thoughts and opinions about it. …”
Fall 2019
Past Syllabi 6 points, 2 comments
u/dvannii: “Does anyone know where to look up W2020 past syllabi? Looking for REC 311, REC 251 and GSJ 102...”
Winter 2015
REC 311 easy? 2 points, 11 comments
u/yarlyyu: “Has anyone taken REC 311? How is the workload? Thanks.”
u/hydraloo: “This is what my gf had to say - "REC 311 was such bullshit. The professor that I had was new, and 3/4 of the class failed the mid-term, lowest mark was 18%. He then bell curved it FOR A REC MIDTERM! …”
Check it elsewhere
- Undergraduate Calendar, 2019–20Its last calendar entry, on ucalendar
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1972–73 to 1988–89, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1972–73 to 1988–89 17 calendars
An analysis of the relationship between recreation and education with particular emphasis on the sponsoring of community recreation programs by education authorities including leisure education and co-curriculum activities.
Prereq: REC 210
3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
- 1972–73 PDF p. 507
- 1973–74 PDF p. 548
- 1974–75 PDF p. 615
- 1975–76 PDF p. 427
- 1976–77* PDF p. 372
- 1977–78* PDF p. 412
- 1978–79 PDF p. 402
- 1979–80 PDF p. 415
- 1980–81 PDF p. 440
- 1981–82 PDF p. 450
- 1982–83 PDF p. 396
- 1983–84 PDF p. 409
- 1984–85 PDF p. 410
- 1985–86 PDF p. 422
- 1986–87 PDF p. 429
- 1987–88 PDF p. 444
- 1988–89 PDF p. 441
* Listed that year without a description, or as not offered.