DANC 341 - Dance for Children

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-C
Theory and techniques for developing movement and expressive capabilities in children through dance activities. Opportunities to create and share lesson plans, observe instruction, and work with children. Lecture Units: 2; Activity Units: 1

Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area C requirements.
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 with grade C- (CR) or better.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-C - Upper Division Arts or Humanities
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

articulate, in oral and written work, the importance of creativity and dance in K-12 education; appreciate dance as a powerful form of communication and art in culture;
employ the five dance elements, Mary Joyce’s PEG method, childhood development concepts, and Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences theory in curriculum development and implementation;
develop and teach age-appropriate creative dance lesson plans that meet California State Visual and Performing Arts Framework Standards when faced with teaching dance or using dance as a tool for teaching other content;
think critically and respond articulately when observing and and analyzing creative dance works;
work collaboratively and respectfully with peers in creative exercises to further develop understanding of self and others;
Exhibit intellect, imagination, sensibility and sensitivity when participating in creative endeavors.

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.