建议打算从社区学院转学到该大学的学生在参加社区学院时完成通识教育要求。该部门的存在是为了促进人们对休闲和娱乐在所有人的生活中所起的作用的更广泛和更深入的了解，并提高每个人可获得的休闲娱乐体验的质量。
The Department exists to promote a broader and deeper understanding of the role that leisure and recreation provides in the lives of all people as well as to enhance the quality of Recreation Leisure experiences available to each person. Students intending to transfer from community colleges to this University are advised to complete general education requirements while attending the community college. Courses equivalent to REC 141, REC 225 and lower-division courses applicable to concentrations within the major (H SC 150, BIOL 207, BIOL 208, PSY 100), should be taken while attending community college if offered. Other recreation courses taken at community colleges cannot be substituted for upper-division recreation courses.