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.