MISSION
Our department's mission is to train innovative and responsible recreation professionals who can guide individuals in utilizing their leisure time in healthy, productive, and meaningful ways, adapting to the needs of the modern age. The department aims to cultivate individuals who can adapt to changing global conditions and developing technology, are sensitive to social issues at national and international levels, and act with an understanding based on scientific knowledge and ethical values. In this regard, increasing the positive effects of recreation on individual and public health through education, research, and community service activities is our fundamental mission.
VISION
Our department's vision is to be a leading academic unit that contributes to the development of individuals with high quality of life, committed to universal values and effectively utilizing scientific methods. Our department aims to be a nationally and internationally recognized center that is innovative, productive, and adds value to society by addressing recreation science from a multidisciplinary perspective. Furthermore, as a structure that bridges the gap between scientific knowledge production and application, and operates with the ideal of sustainable living and a healthy society, it leads the way in training the recreation professionals of the future.
