Courses

• PDP SK 201: Skating, Intermediate
  Prereq: PDP SK 101, PDP SK 103, 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 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, Competitive
  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
  Prerequisite: Successful completion of the Boating Swim Test or Waiver. This is an introductory course for those with little or no sailing experience. The course will explore boat rigging, basic nautical terminology, safety procedures, and elementary sailing maneuvers. The course meets for two hours once a week at the BU Sailing Pavilion and will be a combination of land-based lectures and practice as well as on the water instruction.
• PDP WF 104: Rowing, Beginning
  Prereq: Successful completion of the Boating Swim Test. The fundamentals of rowing and coxing are taught both on indoor rowing machines and outdoors on the Charles River. The basic concepts of sweep rowing and potentially sculling will be covered.
• PDP WF 201: Sailing, Intermediate
  Prerequisites: PDP WF 101 or the equivalent sailing experience and successful completion of the Boating Swim Test or Waiver. The course will introduce the technical skills and racing aspects of sailing for students who have completed an introductory sailing course or have had some sailing experience. The course meets for two hours once a week at the BU Sailing Pavilion and will be a combination of land-based lectures and practice as well as on the water instruction.

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