SHN6322 - Leisure Management

Objectives:

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:

Identify quality management systems and their role in developing and maintaining service standards;
Understand leisure management systems at an operational and strategic level;
Demonstrate an understanding of the particular principles and techniques found within leisure and recreation management;
Assess critically the management of particular leisure and recreation facilities;

Content:

Generic and particular management skills and techniques; legal considerations and obligations facing leisure and recreation mangers; research, policy and practice in leisure and recreation management; Management theory and how this is related to service delivery within leisure and recreation.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Lecture-based with interactive student involvement including directed tasks, micro-teaching, summarizing and feeding-back. Students also make a seminar presentation outlining their particular proposed assignment. In semester 2 the students negotiate a site visit to a leisure facility where they conduct a critical evaluation of the facility and its management.

Lectures
Contact hours: 36
Intended Group size: Whole cohort

Seminar
Contact hours: 1
Intended Group size: 10

Tutorials
Contact hours: 4 x 0.5hr
Intended Group size: 1

Guided independent study
Hours: 161

Assessment: