DANC 341 - Dance for Children

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-3
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

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-3 - Upper Division Arts or Humanities
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area 3 requirements (lower division Area C requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
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.

GE-UD-3. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes

Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply principles, methodologies, values 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.
Demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts or humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.