Teaches students to improve control of the horse on the flat and introduces low jumps. Focus on the rider includes developing a stable position, strength, and balance. For riders capable of controlling a horse at the walk, trot, and canter.

This Community-Based-Learning course examines how digital storytelling enables communities to express themselves and to gain social visibility through literary and media discourses. How do traditionally marginalized communities tell their own stories? Together with the Springfield-based Latino Youth Media Institute, students will research and produce digital stories on issues that affect the North End community in Springfield. Throughout the semester, students will alternate classroom instruction and fieldwork.

We explore public and personal narratives surrounding the Holocaust. What role do written and visual representations play in our understanding of the topic? Are there discrepancies between personal stories and public histories and what are they? With an emphasis on concentration camps, we investigate who has the authority to decide what happens on the grounds of the camps today. In addition, we will investigate how memorial sites, museums, and films communicate the Holocaust.

This course introduces speaking, reading, and writing German. Cultural and literary readings together with frequent use of Internet resources dealing with everyday situations and experiences in the German-speaking countries sensitize students to the cultural context in which the language is used. Online grammar and listening comprehension exercises, as well as weekly conversation sessions with a peer assistant from Germany supplement class work.

For the student who is experienced with two to three strokes and can swim a minimum of 25 yards and is comfortable in deep water. Covers the four competitive strokes and recreational strokes and diving.

This course introduces speaking, reading, and writing German. Cultural and literary readings together with frequent use of Internet resources dealing with everyday situations and experiences in the German-speaking countries sensitize students to the cultural context in which the language is used. Online grammar and listening comprehension exercises, as well as weekly conversation sessions with a peer assistant from Germany supplement class work.

Two semesters in one. Practice in speaking, reading, and writing German. Cultural and literary readings together with frequent use of Internet resources dealing with everyday situations and experiences in the German-speaking countries sensitize students to the cultural context in which the language is used. Online grammar and listening comprehension exercises, as well as weekly conversation sessions with peer assistant from Germany supplement class work.

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.