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Aug 26, 2024
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DANC 401 - The Expressive Body Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-C; Diversity How movement communicates and functions in society; learning movement forms through the lens of culture/gender/disability studies; observation, analysis, coaching and recording of movement. Discussion Units: 1; Activity Units: 2
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area C requirements; and two semesters of movement technique, or equivalent training. Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 with grade C- (CR) or better. Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground, or Entirely Online, or Hybrid. Grading: A-F grading only. Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-C - Upper Division Arts or Humanities. Overlay - Diversity Course Typically Offered: Spring ONLY
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- recognize their own patterns of movement and those of others;
- explore the role that movement practices in the U.S. from China, India, Indonesia, West Africa and the Middle East have impacted dance, martial arts, theater and somatic theory;
- learn to observe, analyze and demonstrate functional and expressive ideas through movement;
- explore how attitudes toward gender, culture, disability, religion, body size and age shape our assumptions about what movement means;
- apply movement analysis to performing arts, teaching, coaching, sports and other movement practices.
UD-C. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply the principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities;
- analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human; and
- demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts and humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.
Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes
- describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
- identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
- analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
- recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.
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