Please read expanded course description for FULL CLASS INFO! Students of all fitness levels will experience aerobic and plyometric training in a full introduction of strikes, kicks, and total body movement. Proper technique of how to safely align hands, wrists, feet, ankles, knees, and hips for absorbing impact from hitting and holding a punching bag will be examined closely. No previous martial arts, fitness or kickboxing experience required. THIS IS NOT A SELF-DEFENSE CLASS NOR A FORMAL METHOD OF LEARNING "FIGHTING" OR "VIOLENCE PREVENTION" TECHNIQUE.

Please read expanded course description for FULL CLASS INFO! Shotokan Karate is a Japanese martial art specializing in linear systems of blocking, striking, kicking, and body movement techniques. Combined with balance, timing, and coordination, single techniques are threaded to create entire sequences of movement dealing with hypothetical opponents. These forms, or "kata" are karate's most valuable capsules of knowledge passed down from generation to generation. Within these kata are lessons on how to negotiate a real opponent with sparring drills, or "kumite".

Through this course the students will develop their own community and world-changing ideas into venture plans, using practical frameworks and principles. Students will learn about social entrepreneurism as a vehicle for change, and the different forms and structures social entrepreneurism can take. Accomplished social entrepreneurs from around the world will share their experiences and perspectives with the class with in-person visits and video sessions, help the students think through their ideas.

This course provides an overview of statistical methods, their conceptual underpinnings, and their use in various settings taken from current news, as well as from the physical, biological, and social sciences. Topics will include exploring distributions and relationships, planning for data production, sampling distributions, basic ideas of inference (confidence intervals and hypothesis tests), inference for distributions, and inference for relationships, including chi-square methods for two-way tables and regression.

This course covers fundamental laboratory;techniques in protein biochemistry and data;analysis. The aims of this course are: 1) to;provide students with practical knowledge and;hands-on experience with some of the most common;experimental methods used in biochemical;research, and 2) to develop the skills in written;and oral scientific communication.

This course covers fundamental laboratory;techniques in protein biochemistry and data;analysis. The aims of this course are: 1) to;provide students with practical knowledge and;hands-on experience with some of the most common;experimental methods used in biochemical;research, and 2) to develop the skills in written;and oral scientific communication.

An examination of the major ideas of biochemistry;from the point of view of the chemical sciences;rather than the life sciences. The focus will be;on structure and reactivity of important;biomolecules and the role of energetics and;reaction dynamics in biochemical processes. Major;metabolic pathways are covered, including those;of proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and nucleic;acids.

An examination of the major ideas of biochemistry;from the point of view of the chemical sciences;rather than the life sciences. The focus will be;on structure and reactivity of important;biomolecules and the role of energetics and;reaction dynamics in biochemical processes. Major;metabolic pathways are covered, including those;of proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and nucleic;acids.