WE 140 - Personal Defense

Credits: 1
Contact Hours: 2

Prerequisites: None

Corequisites: None

College Level Prerequisites: None

Description: This course is intended to increase student’s awareness and understanding of assaults and/or confrontations one may encounter. Focus will be placed on defense and avoidance against attacks that are most often directed toward women, and increasingly men. Such techniques include verbal, non-verbal, physical and psychological responses. The course will entail lecture, discussion, and practice of basic techniques of avoidance and physical confrontations.

Department Consent: Wellness

General Education Distribution Category Met: Wellness