Courses

• PDP NT 104: Healthy Cooking on a Budget
  If healthy eating was simple, affordable, and delicious, everyone would do it! How do you plan balanced meals and snacks without breaking the bank? Step 1: Understand your unique nutrition needs and the health-promoting foods that will help you meet them. Step 2: Perfect the skills and strategies for stocking a healthy kitchen, modifying favorite recipes, and basic cooking by participating in a series of interactive sessions. The end result: You will be well on your way to a lifetime of true "value meals"
• PDP OE 102: Downhill Skiing
  Instruction for beginning and intermediate skill levels. Course runs on Wednesday or Thursday evenings for four weeks and is taught at the Nashoba Ski Area using their certified teaching methods. Extra fee required.
• PDP OE 104: Snowboarding
  Instruction for beginning and intermediate skill levels. Course runs on Wednesday or Thursday evenings for four weeks and is taught at the Nashoba Ski Area using their certified teaching methods. Extra fee required.
• PDP PE 191: R.A.D for Women
  The goal of the BUPD RAD program is to provide an easily accessible program of education and awareness for the women of Boston University. The program trains women in basic self-defense and offers them viable options when confronted with various threats of violence. There is a $10. book fee payable to the instructor at class. Instructors are members of the BU Police.
• PDP PE 286: Directed Study Lab
  Work under the supervision of a specific faculty/staff member for specialized work in a particular area of Physical Education, Intramural Sports, Aquatics, Fitness, or Dance. For more information, call the department at 617/353-2748.
• PDP PE 586: Graduate Directed Study Lab
  Graduate students work with a faculty/staff member in a particular area of Physical Education, Intramural Sports, Aquatics, Fitness, or Dance.
• PDP SK 101: Basic Skating
  Basic forward and backward skating, balance and control, all stops, turning forward to backward, and crossovers. Must have your own skates.
• PDP SK 102: Basic Skating
  Basic forward and backward skating, balance and control, all stops, turning forward to backward, and crossovers. Must have your own skates.
• PDP SK 103: Figure Skating
  Prereq: PDP SK 101 or PDP SK 102. Develop turns and edge sequences and learn half rotation jumps, one and two foot spins, and pivots. Gain control, balance, and power.
• PDP SK 201: Skating, Intermediate
  Prereq: PDP SK 101, PDP SK 102, or good skating skills. Includes stroking, edges, footwork, and turns.
• PDP SK 203: Figure Skating, Intermediate
  Prereq: PDP SK 103 or figure skating experience. Coaching and practice on single and double rotation jumps, spins (including combination and change of foot), and moves in the field.
• PDP SK 204: Introduction to Hockey
  Prereq: PDP SK 101, PDP SK 102, or the equivalent. For beginning players. Improve stick handling and passing skills through drills and scrimmages. Must have own helmet with cage, gloves, and stick.
• PDP SK 303: Figure Skating, Advanced
  Prereq: PDP SK 203 or advanced figure skating skills. This class is structured toward competitive skaters and those currently on the Boston University figure skating team. Skaters will work on both short and long programs for collegiate competition, footwork for synchronized team skating, and dance. Skaters will have an opportunity to run through their programs during this time and work on their jumps and spins.
• PDP SK 304: Hockey, Scrimmage
  Prereq: hockey experience. Supervised scrimmage: no check, no slap shot.Must have own gloves, stick, caged helmet and shin pads.
• PDP WF 101: Sailing, Beginning
  Prereq: Successful completion of the Boating Swim Test. Introductory course for those with little or no sailing experience. Includes boat rigging, basic nautical terminology, safety procedures, and elementary sailing maneuvers.
• PDP WF 102: Kayaking
  Prereq: Successful completion of the Boating Swim Test. For those with little or no kayaking experience. Course includes: knots, terminology, self-rescue, and basic paddling maneuvers for single and double kayaks.
• PDP WF 104: Rowing, Beginning
  Prereq: Successful completion of the Boating Swim Test. The fundamentals of rowing and coxing are taught first in a training "barge" and then in an eight-oared shell. Meets for approximately eight weeks.
• PDP WF 201: Sailing, Intermediate
  Prereq: PDP WF 101 or the equivalent and successful completion of the Boating Swim Test. The technical skills and racing aspects of sailing for students who have completed an introductory sailing course or have had some sailing experience.

Back to full list of Department of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance