Faculty of Business: Leisure, Sport and Tourism
Credit points: 6 cp

Subject level: Undergraduate

Result Type: Grade and marks

Requisite(s): 27126 Leisure in Australia
These requisites may not apply to students in certain courses.
There are also course requisites for this subject. See access conditions.

Handbook description

This subject examines the philosophical and theoretical issues related to 'specific populations'. It traces the historical evolution of treatment of specific populations and discusses contemporary practice. Selected specific populations (e.g. people with physical disabilities, youth at risk) are covered in detail with the focus of study on leisure lifestyle and opportunities. Students have direct contact with specific populations through field visits.

Subject objectives/outcomes

On successful completion of this subject students should be able to:

1. Demonstrate an awareness of the historical, philosophical and definitional issues associated with diversity groups.
2. Identify the basic characteristics and needs of the selected diversity groups.
3. Develop skills in inclusive program practice that minimise the socially constructed economic, social, cultural and political constraints experienced by diversity groups.
4. Describe contemporary issues as they relate to leisure provision for diversity groups.

Contribution to graduate profile

This is a core subject in the Bachelor of Management in Leisure. It seeks to provide students with a theoretical framework for analysing issues of leisure for disadvantaged and marginalised groups. Implications for social policies, government legislation, societal attitudes and economic realities are explored to provide students with an understanding of how these impinge on the leisure opportunities of diverse populations and the need for a response by leisure providers.

Teaching and learning strategies

Teaching and learning strategies include field trips, workshops, debates, experiential exercises and performances. Content for this subject will be supported by UTSOnline.

Content

• History and theory of disability, deviance and difference
• Models and evolution of service provision
• Detailed study of selected diverse populations - differences of language, cultural background, gender, sexuality, age, family responsibility, socioeconomic status, religion, and disability
• Planning, implementation and evaluation of leisure services, facilities and opportunities
• Policies – access, equity, anti-discrimination and adaptation

Assessment

Video Review (Individual)	30%
This addresses objectives 1 and 2.
Field Visit and Poster Presentation (Group)	30%
This addresses objectives 3 and 4.
Examination (Individual)	40%
This addresses objectives 1- 4.

Examinations will be conducted under University examination conditions and, hence, thoroughly address the concerns regarding secure assessment. With respect to the video review component, this involves continually updated assessment tasks across the semesters. As a further method of security, plagiarism detection software it is also utilised for these assessments. The group assessment will be secure through a combination of continual updating of assessment tasks across semesters and peer assessment.

Recommended text(s)

Patterson, I. & Taylor, T. (eds) (2001). Celebrating inclusion and diversity in leisure. Williamstown, Vic: HM Leisure Planning Pty Ltd.

Indicative references

Barnes, C., Mercer, G., & Shakespeare, T. (1999). Exploring Disability: a Sociological Introduction. Cambridge: Polity Press in association with Blackwell Publishers Ltd.

Lockwood, R. & Lockwood, A (Eds) (1999). Recreation and Disability in Australia. Perth: DUIT Multimedia – the University of Western Australia.

Allison, M.T. & Schneider, I.E. (eds) (2000). Diversity and the recreation profession : organizational perspectives. State College, PA.: Venture Publications.

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission 2002, Website –Disability, Race, Ethnicity, Sex, Ageing and Family Responsibility Discrimination Issues, HREOC, Canberra. http://www.hreoc.gov.au/

Young, I. (1990). Justice and the Politics of Difference. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.