This six-week course is a continuation of the Basic Self-Defense for Women course. The Kubotan is a keychain that doubles as a self-defense tool. It is easy to learn to use and carry. The keychain can enable any person, with a minimum of training, to defend herself, by nullifying any power/strength imbalance between herself and her attacker.

The course emphasizes the development of German reading, writing, and speaking skills by focusing on contextualized grammatical features. Combining content and language knowledge, we look at a variety of texts and genres. The completion of various task-sheets and specific instructions on speaking and writing assignments will complement the work with the texts.

This course examines historical, cultural, and political developments that continue to frame debates surrounding the twentieth century, WWII, the former GDR, and German unification. Thematic focus helps students develop accuracy, fluency, and complexity of expression. Reading, writing, and speaking are consistently integrated. Special emphasis placed on text organization toward expanding students' language abilities, with a gradual movement from personal forms of expression to written and public discourses.

Intermediate yoga introduces more advanced variations of basic postures and is an opportunity for students to deepen their experience of this practice. Yoga vinyasa, a style of yoga that links postures together in a flowing sequence will be introduced along with basic inversions. Recommended for students who have completed beginning yoga.

Tutorial enhances students' speaking abilities through analysis and discussion of DVD-based interactive cultural historical materials. Students perform speaking tasks specifically designed to meet their intellectual interests. They thereby also increase their ability to express ideas in a number of discourses related to topics covered in 221 and 220 and in preparation for university study abroad.

An introduction to some of the great critical voices of the nineteenth century with emphasis on their relevance for contemporary issues. We will explore the ideas of such mutinous thinkers as Karl Marx Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, W.E.B. Du Bois and Franz Kafka focusing on the style as well as the substance of their works and the circumstances that provoked them to write and/or that their writings helped provoke.

Intermediate yoga introduces more advanced variations of basic postures and is an opportunity for students to deepen their experience of this practice. Yoga vinyasa, a style of yoga that links postures together in a flowing sequence will be introduced along with basic inversions. Recommended for students who have completed beginning yoga.

Intermediate yoga introduces more advanced variations of basic postures and is an opportunity for students to deepen their experience of this practice. Yoga vinyasa, a style of yoga that links postures together in a flowing sequence will be introduced along with basic inversions. Recommended for students who have completed beginning yoga.

Intermediate yoga introduces more advanced variations of basic postures and is an opportunity for students to deepen their experience of this practice. Yoga vinyasa, a style of yoga that links postures together in a flowing sequence will be introduced along with basic inversions. Recommended for students who have completed beginning yoga.

This course continues the work of Pilates mat exercises. Students will attain a deeper understanding of the movement patterns and refine their skills to achieve a higher level of core conditioning and control.