RECL 1P03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mind Map, Chicken Fingers, Ice Pop

• School: Brock University
• Department: Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Course: RECL 1P03
• Professor: Andrew Spiers

Document Summary

Module 1 - course overview and leisure theory. Chapters 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 from the textbook. The hipster labour of conspicuous leisure http://politicsandculture. org/2012/05/02/the-hipster- labor-of-conspicuous-leisure/ Module overview: welcome from the instructor, overview of syllabus and course expectations, overview of technology: quizzes and secrets of searching workshop, what is leisure, review of the leisure mind map assignment. Welcome to recl 1p03 introduction to leisure in canadian society! Spiers and i will be your instructor for the course. This course is designed to give the students outside the recreation and leisure studies program an introduction to, understanding of and appreciation for the role that leisure has played in shaping our past, present and future. It is likely a topic that few of you have examined from an academic standpoint and yet, it is a concept and practice that you engage in every day!