Recreation Leadership in Small Groups
Overview
Group Theory
- Definition of groups, group work and teams
- Values and ethics which guide group work
- Classifying groups/types of groups
- Stages of group development
Group Dynamics and Group Effectiveness
- Influence of physical environment
- Communication and interaction patterns
- Group attraction, involvement, cohesion
- Group norms, roles and status
- Group climate and culture
- Group goals, productivity and effectiveness
- Group problem solving and decision making
Leadership: Theory
- Theories of leadership
- Situational leadership theory
- An Interactional Model of Leadership
- Group and team leadership functions and skills
- Enhancing team leadership
- Understanding diversity in groups and teams
- Adapting to differences
- Managing group conflict
Leadership Skills Applied
- Situational leadership applied
- Active listening skills
- Making group process explicit
- Reframing and redefining
- Linking, connecting group members
- Providing resources, information giving
- Modeling, coaching, supporting
- Problem solving, conflict resolution
- Task and activity analysis
Planning, Implementing and Evaluating a Recreation Session
- Identifies strengths and needs of group members
- Session plan for creative or expressive arts
- Analyzes the activity
- Implements and evaluates the session
- Self and peer leadership evaluation
- Lecture/discussion
- Small group leadership
- Experiential creative arts groups
- Media
- Video leadership
This course will conform to Douglas College policy regarding the number and weighting of evaluations. Typical means of evaluation would include a combination of:
- Written assignments
- Presentations
- Testing
This is a graded course
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- define groups, teams, group work practice
- describe the types of groups and the stages of group development
- describe the theories of group dynamics and group effectiveness
- explain the meaning of leadership
- document the plan for a small group, expressive or creative arts activity
- demonstrate leadership by implementing the planned arts session
- evaluate session planning and leadership skills
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Requisites
Course Guidelines
Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.
Course Transfers
These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca
Institution | Transfer Details for THRT 2406 |
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Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) | KPU ARTS 2XXX (3) |
Simon Fraser University (SFU) | No credit |
Trinity Western University (TWU) | TWU GENS 2XX (3) |
University of British Columbia - Vancouver (UBCV) | UBCV KIN 2nd (3) |
University of Northern BC (UNBC) | UNBC ORTM 2XX (3) |
University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) | UFV GE 1XX (3) |
University of Victoria (UVIC) | UVIC EPHE 252 (1.5) |