Oct 15, 2025  
2025-2026 Cal State East Bay Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Cal State East Bay Catalog
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REC 235 - Leisure, Self, and Society


Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-4
Conceptual foundations and understanding of the significance of recreation and leisure. Life-cycle changes relative to an individual’s attitudes, values and behaviors. Development of life-long strategies for creating and maintaining a desired quality of life, health and wellness.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-4 - Lower Division Social and Behavioral Sciences
Strongly Recommended Preparation: HOS 100 and REC 100.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring


Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
 

  1. Describe the conceptual foundations of play, recreation, and leisure
  2. Discuss the psychological, sociological and physiological significance of play, recreation and leisure from an historical perspective for various populations and settings
  3. Describe the significance of play, recreation and leisure throughout the life cycle relative to the individual’s attitudes, values, behaviors and use of resources
  4. Relate leisure’s role in maintaining health and wellness as well as its impact on the development of life-long strategies for creating and maintaining a desired quality life.


GE-4. Lower-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Electives Learning Outcomes
 

  1. Explain how social, political, and economic institutions and/or principles intersect with each other.
  2. Describe how people produce, resist, and/or transform social, political, and economic institutions/principles.
  3. Investigate contemporary and/or historical events/issues from a social science perspective.



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