October 20, 2016 - Merced College’s Community Services offers a wide array of life-long learning and leisure activity classes beginning in November 2016.
Community Services provides area residents with opportunities for education, enrichment, and adventure. The classes are non-credit and range from fitness classes to dance.
Following are just some of the classes offered:
Business Blogging Basics—Learn the basics about how to blog and why it is important for content marketing and website development for business today. Includes structure of posts, topic development, how to market your blog and more.
Date: Friday, Nov. 18, 8:30-11:30 a.m.
Location: Merced College Business Resource Center (630 W. 19th Street) Room 215
Cost: $55/participant
Dancing for Birth—Come have fun and learn how expectant moms can move to music before, during, and after the birthing process, using specific dance movements to help get more comfortable during pregnancy, encourage babies into an optimal position for birth, and promote healing in the post-partum period. So tie a scarf around your hips, and spend an hour of fun bonding with your baby, as we dance and talk about birthing. Post-partum moms and newborns welcome! Check it out at www.dancingforbirth.com.
Date: Mondays, November 7-28, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Location: Merced College GYM-4
Cost: $20/participant
Fitness Lab Membership—Want a gym membership without the application fee and yearly contract? Join the Merced College Fitness Lab with memberships available for a one month term.
Date: Monday through Friday, November 1-30, 5:30-7:30 a.m.
Location: Merced College GYM-5
Cost: $25/participant
Lap Swim—Swimming is one of the best forms of exercise. Enjoy open lap swim at the Merced College Pool throughout the summer/fall term at any of the three time slots. Please note that on occasion, Lap Swim is cancelled due to other events being held at the Merced College Pool. In the event of such cancellations, Community Services strives to provide adequate notice to all participants so that arrangements can be made to swim at a different time.
Date: Mondays, Wednesdays, & Thursdays, November 2-December 23, 5:30 a.m.-6 p.m.
Location: Merced College Pool
Cost: $40/participant
World Dance—Learn easy folk dances from around the world. No experience or partners required. Dances are mostly line and circle patterns. All ages are welcome; children must be accompanied by an adult. Come meet new folks, stimulate your mind and toes alike, and get some good low aerobic exercise while relieving stress and dancing to music from a variety of cultures worldwide--Europe, Greece, the Middle East, and beyond. You will gain an appreciation for how other folks come together traditionally to celebrate and have a lot of fun too!
Date: Wednesdays, November 9-December 21, 7-8:30 p.m.
Location: Merced College GYM-4
Cost: $40/participant
For more information, contact the Merced College Community Services office at (209) 384-6224 or register at www.mercedcommunityservices.com.
Source: Merced College
