Recreation Management and Policy: Therapeutic Recreation Administration M.S.

Program Overview

The Therapeutic Recreation Administration option prepares advanced personnel for administrative responsibilities in clinical-based practice & administrative leadership in community-based recreation services that meet the needs of individuals with disabilities. Graduate education serves Therapeutic Recreation Specialists who wish to move into administrative positions such as supervisor/manager/director, senior therapist, treatment coordinator, assisted-living manager, and senior center supervisor. A specialization in community-based TR is also available through our partnership with Northeast Passage (http://www.nepassage.org), including coursework and practice experiences related to in-home/community health promotion programming, TR service delivery in the school system, and adaptive sports.

Students without an academic or clinical background in therapeutic recreation may use the M.S. program to satisfy the academic requirements for the national credentialing examination used by the National Council on Therapeutic Recreation Certification (NCTRC) and for New Hampshire state licensure. While the graduate program does not require prerequisite courses to qualify for admission, the credentialing examination (http://www.nctrc.org) does require coursework outside the M.S. curriculum requirements and the department may require leveling coursework upon acceptance to the M.S. program.

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Contact

Patricia J. Craig

Website: RMP Dept website

Associate Professor

Department of Recreation Management & Policy
Hewitt Hall, 4 Library Way
Durham, NH 03824

Phone: (603) 862-2391

Curriculum & Requirements

Requirements for the Program

Degree Requirements

The 30-credit Therapeutic Recreation Administration option consists of required and elective coursework. In consultation with a faculty adviser, students will select either a thesis or non-thesis track. Full-time students with a TR undergraduate degree typically take two years to progress through the degree requirements; full-time students without a TR undergrad degree need more than two years. Part-time students typically complete the program in 3 years.

Course List
Code	Title	Credits
Required Courses		12-13
RMP 800	Concepts of Recreation and Leisure	3
RMP 805	Management and Policy in Therapeutic Recreation	3
RMP 998	Special Topics (Research Methods)	3
Select one of the following Graduate-level statistics' courses:
SW 962	Data Analysis and Statistics	3
EDUC 881	Introduction to Statistics: Inquiry, Analysis, and Decision Making	4
Elective Courses		12-15
Select courses (4 courses/12 credits for the thesis option or 5 courses/15 credits for the non-thesis option with at least one elective from RMP):
RMP 806	Recreation Administration and Organizational Behavior	3
RMP 811	Recreation Resource Management	3
RMP 820	Adaptive Sports and Recreation Facilitation	3
RMP 830	Camp Administration and Leadership	3
RMP 840	Therapeutic Recreation Service Delivery in Community Settings	3
RMP 860	Program Administration in Recreational Sport	3
RMP 850	Aging, Advocacy, and Active Learning	3
RMP #868	Theories of Youth Development	3
RMP 870	Management and Design of Recreation and Park Facilities	3
RMP 872	Law and Public Policy in Leisure Services	3
RMP 875	Entrepreneurial and Commercial Recreation	3
RMP 912	Non-Profit Administration and Leadership	3
RMP 924	Fund Development and Grantwriting	3
RMP 964	Graduate Internship	3
RMP 970	Teaching Practicum	3
RMP 980	Independent Study	1-3
Capstone Course (choose 1 track)
Thesis Track:
RMP 899	Master's Thesis (I & II, 3 credits each)	6
Non-thesis Track:
RMP 995	Colloquium Seminar	3
RMP 980	Independent Study	3

Course List
Code	Title	Credits
Example of electives outside of the department (not an all-inclusive list):
KIN 881	Inclusion in Physical Education	4
PHP #920	Social Marketing	3
PHP 922	Public Health Economics	3
RAM 867	Social Impact Assessment	4
RAM 877	Topics in Community Planning	4
SOC #988	Medical Sociology: Health, Healing, and Society	4
HMP 900	Introduction to the Health Services Industry	3
HDFS 846	Human Sexuality	4
HDFS 857	Race, Class, Gender, and Families	4
HDFS 860	Family Programs and Policies	4
HDFS 876	Children, Adolescents and the Law	4
HDFS 894	Families and the Law	4
HDFS 993	Theoretical Approaches to Human Development and Family Studies	4
HDFS 843	Families, Schools, and Community	4
KIN 802	Health Content and Youth Risk Behaviors	4
KIN 831	Inclusive Teaching Through Sport	4
KIN 882	Therapeutic Applications of Adventure Programming	4
KIN 883	Pysch Factors of Adventure Ed	4
NUTR 840	Nutrition for Children with Special Needs	4
NUTR 865	Geriatric Nutrition	4
NUTR 873	Clinical Nutrition	4
NUTR 880	Critical Issues in Nutrition	4
OT 822	Introduction to Assistive Technology	4
OT 824	Assistive Technology and Physical Disabilities	4
OT 826	Assistive Technology and Sensory, Communicative, and Cognitive Disabilities	4
OT 830	Assistive Technology for Enhancing Occupational Performance	3
OT 830L	Assistive Technology for Enhancing Occupational Performance Lab	2
OT 889	Using iPads to Support Children with Disabilities	3
PHP 900	Public Health Care Systems	3
PHP 904	Social and Behavioral Health	3
PHP 905	Public Health Administration	3
PHP 907	Public Health Policy	3
PHP 908	Public Health Ethics	3
PHP 912	Public Health Law	3
PHP 914	Public Health Policy Analysis	3
PHP 924	Policy and Practice of Community Health Assessment	3
PHP 938	Health Education and Promotion	3
SW 805	Child and Adolescent Risks and Resiliency: Program, Policy and Practice	3
SW 814	Introduction to Addiction: Assessment and Intervention	3
SW 820	Social Welfare Policy I	3
SOC 880	Social Conflict	4
SW 840	Implications of Race, Culture, and Oppression for Social Work Practice	3
SW 850	Human Behavior and the Social Environment I	3
SW 865	Adventure Therapy: Facillitation and Processing of the Experience	3
SW 897	Special Topics in Social Work and Social Welfare	2 or 3