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  Minor in Studies of Social Issues in Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure

      30 Units

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      The Minor in Studies of Social Issues in Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure offers an opportunity to improve your knowledge and skills in critical analysis of sport, physical activity and leisure to help you become an actor of social change in, and through, sport, physical activity and leisure. You will learn about the effect of social issues on sporting, physical and leisure practices as well as the impact of these practices on social change. In the process, you better understand how power relations are enacted in the context of sport, physical activity and leisure as well as understand how these practices become tools of social change.

      This program is offered in English and in French.

      The table below includes only discipline-specific courses. Please refer to the Academic Regulations for information on including a minor to your degree.

      This program can be chosen only as a second study module as part of a 120-unit bachelor’s degree that allows a minor.

      Direct admission is not possible.

      This program cannot be combined with the Honours Bachelor of Human Kinetics.

      Course List
        Code                                   Title                                                    Units  
        Compulsory Courses at the 1000 level:                                                         
        APA 1302                               Sociology of Sport and Physical Activity in Canada       3 Units
        LSR 1100                               Introduction to Leisure Studies                          3 Units
        LSR 1105                               Leisure in Canadian Society                              3 Units
        Compulsory Courses at the 2000 level                                                          
        APA 2302                               History of Sport and Physical Activity in Canada         3 Units
        Optional courses:                                                                             
        18 optional course units from:         18 Units                                               
          APA 1122                             Physical Activity in a Global Health Perspective                
          LSR 2110                             Leisure : Concepts and Values                                   
          LSR 2121                             Recreation and Environmental Quality                            
          LSR 2122                             Tourism                                                         
          LSR 2312                             Principles of Leadership in Recreation                          
          APA 3118                             Recreation, Sport and Community Development                     
          APA 3123                             Hockey and Canadian Culture                                     
          APA 3142                             Sociology of Health and Physical Activity in Canada             
          APA 3301                             Ethics in Sport, Physical Activity and Health in Canada         
          LSR 3105                             Parks and Protected Areas                                       
          LSR 3116                             Leisure Education/Counselling                                   
          APA 4101                             Anthropology of Sport and Leisure                               
          APA 4112                             Political Economy of Sport and Physical Activity                
          APA 4115                             Sport and Identities                                            
          APA 4120                             Sport and Physical Activity in Aging Populations                
        Total:                                 30 Units                                               
        
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