Course Name: RPTM 46095 Selected Topics in Recreation: Arts, Parks, and Events: Designing Inclusive Experiences for Persons with Disabilities
Course Description: This course will prepare students to understand conceptual, theoretical, and applied aspects of designing inclusive experiences for persons with disabilities in art, event, cultural, hospitality, park, and tourism attractions. Students will experience art, tourism, park, and cultural attractions in Florence and surrounding parks through an inclusion design lens with aim to better understand ways to make places and experiences accessibility and accommodating for persons with disabilities. They will learn the principles of inclusion, accessibility, and designing accommodations in built, natural, and event environments. Students will learn the particular needs of persons with various disabilities from an inclusive experience perspective in specific settings. They will examine accessible features of art, event, cultural, hospitality, park, and tourism attractions in and around Florence and recommend ways to improve accessible experiences for persons with disabilities. Their learning outcome will culminate in a case study involving the inclusion a person with a disability in an art, event, cultural, hospitality, park, or tourism experience in Florence, Italy.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisites: None