Unit Outline

Rapid social change impacts on the ways people socialise, spend their money, work, and participate in leisure. The leisure industry is also going through rapid change with the emergence of contemporary forms of leisure such as extreme sports, multi-purpose leisure centres, online gaming, extended reality (XR) experiences, social media, and adventure tourism, as well as a greater focus on sustainable development. Global frameworks such as Article 24: Right to Rest and Leisure in the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are leveraged for you to explore opportunities to increase access to leisure participation by everyone. This unit introduces you to leisure industry components such as recreation, sport, entertainment, events, the arts, and tourism to enable you to examine how businesses, governments, and communities may leverage sustainable opportunities that arise with changes in leisure participation and society. This unit enables you to learn through practice via authentic opportunity-based and problem-based learning experiences applying tools such as Asset Mapping, Appreciative Inquiry, and reflective practice.

Intended Learning Outcomes

As per the Assessment and Results Policy 1.3, your results will reflect your achievement against specified learning outcomes.

On completion of this unit, you will be able to:


1.	Examine the influences on changing leisure participation in society
2.	Evaluate business, government, and not-for-profit activities in the leisure industry
3.	Propose new or improved sustainable leisure opportunities for communities
4.	Apply reflective practitioner approaches to examine knowledge and skills for the contemporary leisure industry

Requisites


REQUISITE TYPE	REQUISITES
Anti-requisite (mutual excl)	ZAA106 The Business of Leisure

Alterations as a result of student feedback

This unit shifts each offering based on societal change. Following student feedback, this offering includes more contemporary content (e.g. sustainable development in leisure, new and emerging technologies), increased clarity and focus in assessment tasks (especially AT2), and a stronger opportunity for reflection.

How will I be Assessed?

For more detailed assessment information please see MyLO.

Assessment schedule


ASSESSMENT TASK #	ASSESSMENT TASK NAME	DATE DUE	WEIGHT	LINKS TO INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Assessment Task 1:	AT1: Mapping Your Week of Leisure	Week 4	20 %	LO1, LO3, LO4
Assessment Task 2:	AT2: Leisure Asset Mapping	Week 8	30 %	LO2, LO3
Assessment Task 3:	AT3: Sustainable Leisure Opportunity Proposal	Week 14	50 %	LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4

Assessment details

Assessment Task 1: AT1: Mapping Your Week of Leisure

Task Description:

In this assessment task you undertake two activities to identify your own leisure patterns, compare your patterns to others, and identify potential leisure opportunities.
1/ Personal Diary of Leisure: You will keep a diary of the activities and key events in your life every hour over a period of seven days.
2/ Reflective Post: Leveraging at least three (3) sources of data or information on leisure activities and patterns, you will reflect on your own diary that you have created to compare your leisure patterns with those of contemporary society. You will explore the differences in the way you undertake leisure with those of others and identify at least one (1) opportunity that an organisation might undertake to capture ‎‘you’ in their organisation, and justify why.

Task Length:

Diary (as per template) + Reflective Post (500 words)

Due Date:

Week 4

Weight:

20 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Analyse leisure patterns	LO1
2	Engage in reflective practice to examine leisure opportunities	LO4
3	Use evidence to support arguments and conclusions	LO3

Assessment Task 2: AT2: Leisure Asset Mapping

Task Description:

You will identify an urban area that you are familiar with. This urban area should be a space that is legally accessible by the public (for example, a CBD, parklands, waterfront development).
Utilising an Asset Mapping approach, you will identify at least ten (10) ‘assets’ in your chosen urban area that could be leveraged (or further leveraged) for leisure participation. These assets should be reflective of a mixed economy of leisure.
You will then:
1. Produce an Asset Map identifying the location of these assets
2. Collect ten (10) artefacts: representing one (1) for each of the ten (10) assets
3. Justify why you consider each asset to be an asset that could be leveraged (or further leveraged).
4. Propose how a minimum of three (3) of these ten (10) assets could be connected (or linked) together to increase leisure access and participation by an equity group in your urban location.

Task Length:

Asset Map, 100 words per artefact (x10), and 500 word proposal

Due Date:

Week 8

Weight:

30 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Engage with and record observations of leisure activity	LO2
2	Apply Asset Mapping tools and techniques	LO2
3	Propose sustainable solutions for community leisure opportunities	LO3
4	Use evidence to support arguments and conclusions	LO3

Assessment Task 3: AT3: Sustainable Leisure Opportunity Proposal

Task Description:

You will identify a legally accessible, physical space that you are familiar with. You will visit this space to document and consider what leisure participation activities are currently evident. You will document your exploration with appropriate artefacts (e.g. photos, maps, field notes). You will upload and analyse at least five (5) of these artefacts for assessment.
You will utilise the Appreciative Inquiry framework to assist you to identify one (1) new or improved sustainable leisure opportunity of your own making. This opportunity will need the involvement of the mixed economy (government, business, and not-for-profit sectors). Your sustainable leisure opportunity should reflect, and be supported by, contemporary leisure trends. You will prepare a recorded presentation that includes both oral and visual elements to propose your sustainable leisure opportunity, and submit a reflection on the learning obtained.

Task Length:

Artefacts: 100 words examining each artefact (x5) Presentation: Digital recording with supporting visuals (15 minutes maximum) Reflection: 250 words

Due Date:

Week 14

Weight:

50 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Use evidence to support arguments and conclusions	LO1
2	Record observations of leisure activity	LO2
3	Propose sustainable solutions for community leisure opportunities	LO3
4	Apply the Appreciative Inquiry framework	LO2
5	Engage in reflective practice to examine knowledge and skills developed for the contemporary leisure industry	LO4

How your final result is determined

To pass this unit, you need to demonstrate your attainment of each of the Intended Learning Outcomes, achieve a final unit grade of 50% or greater, and pass any hurdle tasks.

Submission of assignments

Where practicable, assignments should be submitted to an assignment submission folder in MYLO. You must submit assignments by the due date or receive a penalty (unless an extension of time has been approved by the Unit Coordinator). Students submitting any assignment in hard copy, or because of a practicum finalisation, must attach a student cover sheet and signed declaration for the submission to be accepted for marking.

Requests for extensions

If you are unable to submit an assessment task by the due date, you should apply for an extension.

A request for an extension should first be discussed with your Unit Coordinator or teaching support team where possible. A request for an extension must be submitted by the assessment due date, except where you can provide evidence it was not possible to do so. Typically, an application for an extension will be supported by documentary evidence: however, where it is not possible for you to provide evidence please contact your Unit Coordinator.

The Unit Coordinator must notify you of the outcome of an extension request within 3 working days of receiving the request.

Late penalties

Assignments submitted after the deadline will receive a late penalty of 5% of the original available mark for each calendar day (or part day) that the assignment is late. Late submissions will not be accepted more than 10 calendar days after the due date, or after assignments have been returned to other students on a scheduled date, whichever occurs first. Further information on Late Penalties can be found on the Assessments and Results Procedure.

Review of results and appeals

You are entitled to ask for a review of the marking and grading of your assessment task if there is an irregularity in the marking standards or an error in the process for determining the outcome of an assessment. Details on how to request a review of a mark for an assignment are outlined in the Review and Appeal of Academic Decisions Procedure.