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COMMUNICATION LITERACY PLAN (LARGE PROGRAM, MANY STUDENT OPTIONS)

Major: DANCE

Program Head: (Insert name here)

Department/School: THEATRE AND DANCE

College: VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS

Narrative description of the Communication Literacy plan in Dance:

Dance is a large program with over 700 majors. To accommodate our majors while emphasizing the communication skills that they will need to graduate, we are focusing on developing students’ abilities to integrate and articulate ideas and information specific to three areas: Dance History, Dance Practice, and Dance Problems. Upon graduating, students will be able to comprehensively articulate and synthesize, using various communication strategies, key components of each of these areas.

Courses in the Communication Literacy plan:

Dance History Area (student will select one course (three credit hours) from):

  • DAN 3315: TOPICS IN DANCE HISTORY
  • DAN 3319: DANCE IN SOUTH AMERICA
  • DAN 3321: URBAN DANCES
  • DAN 4316: ANALYZING DANCE IN EARLY 20TH C. NORTH AMERICA
  • DAN 4328: RE-WRITING THE DANCE HISTORY CANON

Dance Practice Area (student will select one course (three credit hours) from):

  • DAN 3301: ADVANCED CONTEMPORARY TECHNIQUES I
  • DAN 3302: ADVANCED CLASSICAL TECHNIQUES I
  • DAN 3303: PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE
  • DAN 4301: ADVANCED CONTEMPORARY TECHNIQUES II
  • DAN 4302: ADVANCED CLASSICAL TECHNIQUES II

Dance Problems Area (student will select one course (three credit hours) from):

  • DAN 3309: DANCE AESTHETICS
  • DAN 3308: CRITICIAL ISSUES IN DANCE
  • DAN 3306: DANCE AS SOCIAL JUSTICE
  • DAN 4304: DANCE AS POLITICAL ACTION
  • DAN 4308: GENDER INEQUITY IN DANCE TRAINING

Learning outcomes for the Communication Literacy Plan:

Students graduating with a BA in Dance should be able to:

  1. WRITTEN COMMUNICATION: Comprehensively articulate, in writing and for graded review, key components of dance history. (All courses in History Area)
  2. KINESTHETIC COMMUNICATION: Articulate and demonstrate, through performances for juried review, strategies for dynamic performance across multiple dance forms. (All courses in Practices Area)
  3. SYNTHESIS AND PRESENTATION: Describe and analyze, in a medium appropriate for the assignment and in the context of a formal presentation for an invited audience of peers and professors, problems in dance. (All courses in Problems Area)

Projects that will be evaluated to provide data on student learning outcomes:

  1. Writings: description to be inserted here (All courses in History Area)
  2. Culminating performances of learned technique or original choreography: description to be inserted here (All courses in Practices Area)
  1. Presentation: description to be inserted here (All courses in Problems Area)

Assessment plan:

  1. The Instructors of Record for each of the courses in our CL Plan will evaluate the projects described above with rubrics developed by the full faculty. Rubrics are attached to this Plan (not really).
  2. Data from the Rubrics will be submitted on a semesterly basis to the Program Head, who will compose an annual narrative documenting the data and summarizing an overall assessment of student communication literacy