This course is designed to expand the skills of the student dancer preparing for a career as part of a touring dance company. Students will learn multiple dance works from faculty and guest choreographers. Touring venues include CCSF, San Francisco high schools and local colleges, public theaters, and other public dance events.
Focus on multi-zone targeting conditioning techniques that relate to the dance idiom. Emphasis on beyond the basics of Pilates principles that build abdominal and back strength. Exercises include various approaches that combine body alignment, core strength, flexibility techniques, floor barre, weight training and stability exercises.
This course encourages students to discuss sports issues and analyze sports as a part of our society, ranging from youth leagues to professional sports. Examine the history of sports, its place in society, and its cultural links to race, gender, politics, economics, deviance, aggression, drug use, media, and social mobility.
Sport-specific strength and conditioning protocols related to improving muscular strength, power, agility, and speed. Principles of sport-specific technical and tactical methodology will be presented. Injury prevention, restoration and recovery will also be addressed.
This course establishes foundation for later sport-specific physical preparation and intense training. Its primary emphasis is general preparation and some specialized skills and strength conditioning exercises to work all the major muscles and joints. Key areas of study will also include sports injuries prevention and rehabilitation, nutrition, and mental skills.
Emphasizes speed, agility, and quickness development training to reduce risk of physical injury, increase athleticism, and improve body mechanics. This class will focus on enhancing each individual's speed, quickness, agility, and body control relative to sport performance.
Utilizes high intensity interval training methodology to accelerate sport-specific metabolic demands for successful individual athletic performance.
Instruction and scheduled competitions for participation in Women's Intercollegiate Water Polo representing City College of San Francisco, in the Coast Conference and the California Community Colleges Athletic Association (CCCAA).
Instruction and scheduled competitions for participation in intercollegiate track and field representing City College of San Francisco in the Coast Conference and the California Community Colleges Athletic Association (CCCAA).
Instruction for competition and participation in Men's Intercollegiate Soccer in the Coast Conference of the California Association of Community Colleges.