Overview
Description
Non-technical course providing understanding and appreciation of the art of dance. Special focus on artists and styles, leading to the understanding of dance as an artistic, social and cultural form.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Terms
fall, spring
Core
CO7, CO11
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- identify and define dance genres, fundamental concepts, and terminology.
- compare and contrast the artistic elements of various traditional, social, and theatrical dance performances.
- analyze the origins, diversity, and creativity of the world’s dance forms.
- distinguish ways in which dance functions as a means to explore, affirm, and/or celebrate individual and group identities.
- critically examine dance issues in historical and contemporary global contexts through comparing and contrasting contexts.
- demonstrate how local and global contexts of dance result in nuanced and/or conflicting understandings of contemporary and historical ideas and events in dance.