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The focus of this course is academic and social adjustment to the University community. This course will also explore how to cope with life issues. Course Objectives: To make academic excellence the #1 priority; to provide first-year students with tips on how to succeed academically; to help first-year students adjust academically and socially to the campus; to explore various topics that deal with academics and life issues; to provide first year students with internships, co-ops and summer employment opportunities; and, to match fist year students with peer mentors and academic advisors.

Places and our attachments to them are a profound part of human experience. We imbue places with layers of cultural meaning and these places shape us, as both individuals and groups. How we make and relate to places, is also shaped by our cultural and social contexts. Place-making and place-meaning are about sharing experiences through stories. Place, then, is an excellent way to develop skills for ethnographic storytelling. In this course, we will examine place as an aspect of human cultural and social life as a way to develop skills for writing ethnography.

"Everything you know about Indians is wrong."- Paul Chaat Smith. This interdisciplinary course offers an introduction to important topics in the field of Native American Studies. We will examine history, literature, art, politics, and current events to explore the complex relationship between historical and contemporary issues that indigenous peoples face in North America, with a focus on the United States. We will pay particular attention to the creative ways that indigenous communities have remained vibrant in the face of ongoing colonial struggle.

This class covers basic tennis techniques. Our focus will be on developing smooth confident strokes. Students will also spend time learning the rules of the game and playing. 5-College students will be graded pass/fail.

Resisting Aggression with Defense (R.A.D.) addresses violence as a sexist phenomena. Social constructs of masculinity promotes the notion that all men know "to fight" and that they are never the victims of violence. Violence can affect and victimize all genders. Statistics and recorded data indicate that a high percentage of reported aggressive or violent instances involve men in some capacity. This program's directive is the development of realistic and responsible self defense options for men that resist and deescalate confrontational situations.

The Rape Aggression Defense system (R.A.D.) is a program of realistic self-defense tactics and techniques. The system is a comprehensive course for women that begins with risk awareness, prevention, reduction, and avoidance, while progressing on to the basics of hands-on defense training. It is dedicated to teaching women defensive concepts and techniques against various types of assault, by utilizing easy, effective and proven self-defense/martial arts tactics. The RAD system of realistic defense provides women with the knowledge to make an educated decision about resistance.

Please read expanded course description for FULL CLASS INFO. Debated to be the most superbly engineered sword in the world, the katana perseveres in modern times with deep roots in Japanese history. As one of the most popular icons of samurai warriors in feudal battlefields, Iaido reinvents the use of the sword and turns its power inwards as a means of personal precision, refinement, manners, and cutting of the ego in timeless battles that knows no era. NO PREVIOUS MARTIAL ARTS EXPERIENCE IS REQUIRED.

Students from OPRA #0115-1 (Beginning Kyudo) will review methods of properly handling equipment, equipment maintenance, and practice of Shichido. Once essential aspects of Shichido are secure, additional techniques are introduced such as two-arrow forms called Hitote and Tsukubai. Both will be practiced at short range and then gradually at a more distant target. Students will learn the difference in equipment required for long-range shooting and how to synchronize with other archers in their practice. In order to harmonize with others, surrendering the ego becomes necessary.

To be an archer in historical samurai society was considered as being among the elite of a domain. Archers were beholden to defending their lord's stronghold from distant threats. After an era of great civil war ended in Japan by 1600 A.D., samurai warriors lost their primary means of occupation and were compelled repurpose their paradigms of fighting and destructive techniques. Generations later, archer samurai adopted Zen buddhism as a core axiom of their position in society and shifted towards scholastic pursuits in religion, war history, and philosophy.