PEAC 1051 - Women’s Self-Defense and Risk Awareness

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Students learn basic self-defense techniques with an emphasis on distracting, disabling, and escaping. Students are encouraged to improvise in scenario-based attacks, catering to each student’s individual defense strengths. Emphasis is on building automatic responses to attacks. As well as learning basic self-defense techniques, students engage in risk-reduction strategies, including awareness of rape myths and rape culture, rape and sexual assault statistics, verbal defenses, boundary-setting, stranger and non-stranger assailant strategies, relationship red flags, personal safety tips, bystander intervention strategies, healthy sexuality, and the role of alcohol and rape drugs in assaults. (3 hrs lec)