DIVERSITY is more than just an old old wooden ship as Ron Burgandy suspected…
Diversity is: any and all differences between humans including sex, gender, sexuality, age, physical and mental ability, socioeconomic status, language,
physical appearance, race, ethnicity, culture, knowledge, skills, etc.
There are SO MANY TOPICS AND THEMES you can focus on for this paper! Be creative, explore what really interests you in terms of diversity in outdoor rec!
Directions:
- Read the article, the Deep Roots of Outdoor Recreation’s Diversity Gap here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/08/outdoor-recreation-diversitygap-black-access-nature-national-parks/ .
- Perform a general internet search AND a Cline library search for popular media resources on the topic of “diversity in outdoor recreation”. Find at least 5
resources that you can use as a basis for your paper 3. The article listed here can count for one of these resources.
General internet search example:
https://www.google.com/search?
q=diversity+in+outdoor+recreation&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS860US860&oq=diversity+&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j0i433i512j69i57j0i433i512j0i131i433i512j69i60l3.256
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Cline Library search example:
https://arizona-nau.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?
vid=01NAU_INST:01NAU&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&highlight=true&displayMode=full&query=any,contains,diversity%20and%20outdoor%
(select “newspaper articles” ,“newsletter articles”, “text articles”.) - Using the article listed in #1 as a model, write and create your own popular media article that highlights existing issues related to diversity in outdoor
recreation (ie. barriers to access, holistic cultural circumstances-historical and present, socioeconomic factors, demographics of nature-proximate areas for
recreation, family histories of outdoor recreation, etc.). Think holistically and critically about these issues, what is your main point you would like to get
across and why should anyone care? Come up with your own unique argument here and make it sexy for an audience, what is your hook? What is a hot angle
you can approach these issues from? Can you find any local relevance for the topic and incorporate it in your article? - Presentation for this paper should reflect popular journal presentation but with APA format for citations and references to meet the requirements for our