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Aug 24, 2024
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DANC 334 - Healing Our World through Ancestral Performance Practices Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-C; Sustainability Exploration of creative movement structures and perceptual frames to understand the intersections between cultural inheritance, ancestral lineages, creative arts, Earth-honoring culture, and the work needed to heal our current climate crises so that future generations can thrive.
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. Repeatability: Repeatable for credit for a maximum of 6 units. Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous. Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice). Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-C - Upper Division Arts or Humanities, Overlay - Sustainability Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- identify and describe diverse ways of knowing (e.g. intellectual, kinesthetic, intuitive, visual, emotional) and approaches across diverse cultures for experiencing connections with ancestral lineages.
- identify and describe creative practices that contribute to cultural/environmental balance, and what happens to the climate when these practices are no longer in use.
- perform Earth-honoring dance, music, stories, and other creative elements inherited from their ancestors (either biological ancestors and/or lineages of affiliation, interest, and passion), and identify the complex ways that this artistic knowledge has been passed down to them through many generations.
- apply concepts about inherited ancestral blessings and burdens to their own creative practices and their goals for community/cultural healing.
- Create and share an original, speculative 1,000 year creative plan for climate and cultural healing, that is modeled after the Sri Lankan Sarvodaya Movement’s 500-year-peace-plan and projects by the Long Now Foundation, and that draws on each student’s own ancestral knowledge and the aspects of climate change that most directly impact their people.
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.
Sustainability Overlay Learning Outcomes
- identify the environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainability, either in general or in relation to a specific problem;
- analyze interactions between human activities and natural systems;
- describe key threats to environmental sustainability; and
- explain how individual and societal choices affect prospects for sustainability at the local, regional, and/or global levels.
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