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My name is Douglas Schwanke and I am an adjunct professor here at American University. I teach in the health, fitness, health science department.

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Um, I have been an adjunct professor here for eight years. I started in the fall of 2017. And, um, the courses that I teach are cross training, which is

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Health Fit 230 and I teach walking and jogging, which is health fit 130 and I really enjoy teaching the activity courses because it does a number of things. Number one, um, gives students an

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opportunity to take a little break from the academics to have, um, focus on fitness, uh, mind, body and spirit combination right there. At the same time, they're also,

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um, learning about the importance of teamwork, the importance of relationships, um, leading a group. And that's where I find a lot of times, um, I like to veer my classes because I feel those are critical things that people need

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to have when they finish college and they start the workforce is good writing skills, good people skills, good communication skills. And I try to aim those in my classes. Um, we do a variety of stuff in cross training, including, um,

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volleyball. We do wiffle ball, we do kickball, we'll do football, Frisbee. Um, we do also a lot of fitness,

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um, activities oftentimes. Um, and, and the purpose is to um, again, um, focus on competition, focus on fitness, focus on, um, having a good time.

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Also focus on developing relationships with each other. Um, this way I'm learning about how to communicate with each other, how to form friendships.

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And I think those are, again, those are key things I think are very important in college, especially here at American.