Emphasizes maintaining proper position and balance at all paces and over more complex courses. Focuses on riding technique to persuasively influence the horse's movements. Riders taking this class should be capable of jumping a three-foot course and riding more athletic horses.

Emphasizes maintaining proper position and balance at all paces and over more complex courses. Focuses on riding technique to persuasively influence the horse's movements. Riders taking this class should be capable of jumping a three-foot course and riding more athletic horses.

Introduces an integrated, functional approach to strength training that incorporates balance, coordination, and agility. Teaches weight training without machines, using dumbbells, medicine balls, stability balls, and body weight to grow stronger. Mini lectures on a variety of related exercise topics will also be given. This class is designed for students who exercise regularly and have at least a minimal level of fitness.

Includes required test, reading assignments, and final examinations. This course will give the student a Red Cross certification to teach basic water safety and learn to swim classes.

Offers conditioning through endurance swimming. Includes instruction on stroke technique.

This class focuses on improving the rider's effective use of the aids to influence the horse and to develop a secure position and balance for western horsemanship. Focus on equitation and pattern skills.

An exploration of the idea of sovereignty, from its articulation as absolute monarchical authority in the 16th and 17th centuries to its metamorphosis as popular sovereignty in the 18th and 19th centuries to current debates over whether sovereign power is outmoded both domestically and in international relations. Drawing on historical as well as political theoretical texts, we will assess sovereign power and sovereign freedom as political ideals and consider whether we should lament or applaud the difficulty of actualizing them in political life.

This course examines the discursive relationship between race and law in contemporary U.S. society. Readings examine the ways in which racial bodies are constituted in the cultural and political economy of American society. The main objective is to explore the rules and social practices that govern the relationship of race to gender, nationality, sexuality, and class in U.S. courts and other cultural institutions. Thinkers covered include W.E.B. DuBois, Kimberle Crenshaw, Derrick Bell, and Richard Delgado, among others.

This course continues Asian Studies 222, Second Year Japanese I. Emphasizes speaking, listening, reading, and writing modern Japanese. Includes approximately 250 kanji. Supplements class work with audio and video.