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PE 1004 - Personal Safety and Self Defense

Credits: 1
Hours/Week: Lecture 0.5Lab 1
Course Description: This course covers how to empower yourself by developing the psychological and physical skills to avoid and/or escape physical assault, harassment, and dangerous situations. Equip yourself with new approaches to bystander intervention. You will practice physical techniques of basic striking and kicking, shifting, blocking, and releasing. Additional course topics include: analysis and prevention of dangerous situations, victim behavior, characteristics of attackers, domestic violence and sexual harassment/violence.
MnTC Goals
None

Prerequisite(s): None
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content
  1. Bystander intervention
  2. Basic self-defense methods
  3. Characteristics of abusers and of victims
  4. Domestic abuse
  5. Harassment, sexual assault and stalking
  6. Role of alcohol and drugs
  7. Methods of preventing and reducing risk to dangerous situations
  8. Safe and unsafe environments
  9. Healthy and unhealthy relationships

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

  1. analyze personal habits and behaviors to determine vulnerability to assault.
  2. define sexual harassment, stalking and sexual assault.
  3. demonstrate self-defense techniques such as basic striking and kicking, shifting, blocking, and releasing.
  4. describe methods to prevent, avoid or reduce danger.
  5. describe the role of alcohol and drugs in creating dangerous environments and behaviors.
  6. identify characteristics of safe and unhealthy relationships.
  7. identify safe bystander interventions.
  8. list characteristics of abusers and victims.
  9. list the characteristics of a safe environment.
  10. recognize potentially dangerous situations.


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