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Evidence of Compliance: 

The assessment plan utilized by the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies is in direct compliance with the campus Assessment and Program Review Office and with WASC.  Information about the CSULB Assessment and Program Review Office is available via this link: CSULB Assessment and Program Review Office

The Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies submits a periodic Program Review documenting program assessment in compliance with university requirements.  This  Program Review for the Department is in addition to the 7.0 series standards for COAPRT accreditation. The  Program Review assesses the department’s compliance with institutional learning objectives set forth by the University in 2022.  These objectives state graduates will:

• Demonstrate a strong liberal education foundation in oral and written communication, critical thinking, quantitative reasoning, and information literacy skills to become civically engaged human beings;

• Integrate foundational knowledge with disciplinary or professional competency to successfully lead personal, civic, and professional lives they consider meaningful;

• Value equity, diversity, social justice, and global citizenship and promote the public good in local, national, and global communities;

• Promote and participate respectfully with our diverse community.  Actively engage in self-reflection and critical analysis of one’s own perspectives and biases and value other’s perspectives;

• Integrate and engage in evidence-based decision making, life-long learning, curiosity, collaboration, innovation, critical thinking and research and creative activities in understanding and analyzing the world;

• Cultivate physical/mental health and well-being of self and community, and promote economic, socio-cultural, and environmental sustainability to thrive.

2021 RLS Program Review Report 

These institutional learning objectives can best be assessed in courses students complete at the culmination of their degree program.  Therefore the department has identified specific assessments based on the final core course required for the Bachelor of Arts in Recreation and for the Therapeutic Recreation program. 

2022 RLS Program MOU Report