A more advanced practice for experienced yoga students. Practice will include more challenging asana and sequences, pranayama, meditation and philosophy. Previous experience required. Five College students will be graded pass/fail.

A flowing progression of yoga postures that align movement with breath. This class build on fundamentals. All levels are welcome. Five College students will be graded pass/fail.

An introduction to the yoga practice, including asana (physical practice), pranayama (breathing exercises), relaxation and philosophy. Five College students will be graded pass/fail.

Advanced Shotokan Karate: We have only a finite period of time in life to practice what we love. How will you spend that time before it is too late? This class is an immediate follow-up to Intermediate Shotokan Karate 0102 where students with two or more consecutive semesters of training are invited to come polish their favorite kata, work on torite (escaping techniques), or practice applications of other advanced movements. Students may re-enroll in this section each semester for continuous practice. Pre-requisite is completion of OPRA-0102. 5-College students will be graded pass/fail.

Intermediate Shotokan Karate: The content explored in OPRA-0101 will be expanded to include more combinations of techniques; greater freedom in sparring; and more complicated kata. Students will be trained for voluntary participation in the semi-annual Kyu Test at the end of each semester. (Only practitioners with membership to the national organization of SKA will receive formal rank or promotion). Special practices focusing on endurance and practical forms of self-defense will also be featured at the end of the semester.

Beginning Shotokan Karate: Shotokan Karate began as an unarmed form of self-defense for civilians native to the Ryukyu island chain off the southern coast of Japan: Okinawa. During the forceful annexation of Okinawa to the main island of Japan in the late 19th century, any individual with a working knowledge of hand-to-hand combat was considered a threat to the Japanese military incursions. Training and practice of karate had to be held in secret and late at night.

Philosophers and critical theorists such as Fanon, Althusser, Foucault, Butler, Johnson, and Ahmed indicate that subjectivity, embodiment, and social difference emerge within relationships of address among persons, and among persons and objects. Cultural critics place address at the center of the ethical, political, and aesthetic dimensions of artworks and other cultural productions. What can we learn about representation and reading by considering modes in which we address and are addressed?

Schools operate on the idea that learners are "regular" or "special needs." This course examines these ideas, exploring topics related to a variety of learning differences including ADD and autism, as well as factors that influence a child's readiness to learn.

Students will propose and develop a semester-long project or body of work in a media of their choice. While the work maybe representational or abstract, conceptual or not it is expected that each student draw her or his subject matter from personal experience and document their creative process in the development of their semester-long project.

Using a range of materials and artistic approaches students will create experimental drawings, paintings, collages and mixed media works that use data and information visualization as their departure point. Autobiographical data, info-graphics, data sets, the work of Mark Lombardi, Adolf Wlfli, John O'Connor, Ward Shelley, Danica Phelps, Lisa Strausfeld, books on information visualization by Manuel Lima, Edward Tufte, Nigel Holmes and others will inform our work. Every student will keep a sketchbook or visual journal in which they will develop ideas and document their artistic process.