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COURSE OUTLINE
Division: / FC Physical Education
Department/Subject Area:
Course Prefix: / DANC
Course Number: / 100 F
Course Title: / Dance Appreciation
Units: / 3
Lec Hours: Full Term Hrs/Wk. / 3
Entry Skill Requisites: / 0
Prerequisite(s):
None
Corequisite(s):
None
Advisory(ies):
- None
Repeatability
- Not designed as repeatable
- DESCRIPTIONS
- CATALOG DESCRIPTION
54 hours lecture per term. This course defines historical and contemporary dance forms and their religious, social, cultural and artistic qualities. The course will include the viewing of video documentation, discussion, research and student presentations. This course is recommended for non-majors. (CSU) (UC) (Degree Credit) - SCHEDULE DESCRIPTION
This is a lecture course defining historical and contemporary dance forms and examining their religious, social, cultural, and artistic qualities.
- STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES:
- Outcome: Identify different forms of dance studied including ballet, modern, jazz, tap, and ethnic.
- Outcome: Compare and contrast key components of each of the studied dance forms: ballet, modern, jazz, tap, and ethnic.
- Outcome: Interpret the work of an influential contemporary choreographer.
- Outcome: Analyze and criticize a live professional or college level dance concert.
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
Identify the dance forms studied including: ballet, modern, jazz, tap and ethnic styles.
Compare and contrast the cultural and historical context of two dance forms.
Interpret the work of an influential contemporary choreographer.
Analyze and criticize a professional or college level dance concert.
COURSE CONTENT AND SCOPE (instructional topics or units)
- Defining Dance
B. Social Dance
C. Spiritual Dance
D. Cultural Dance
E. Artistic Dance
1. Ballet - court dance to contemporary
2. Modern
3. Jazz - early roots of African American culture
4. Tap - early rhythms of African American culture to present day
5.Peformance
- Precursors to Modern Dance
B. Loie Fuller
C. The Ballet in Russia at the turn of the 20th century
D. Dance in Germany pre-WWII
E. Dance in Paris pre-WWII
F. The effect of WWII on Ballet and Modern Dance
- Other Dance Forms that Influenced Dance in the US
B. Social Dance - Waltz, Tango, Cha Cha, and Swing
C. German Experimentalism
- Denishawn and the Pioneers of Modern Dance
B. Charles Weidman
C. Doris Humphrey
D. Jose Limon
- The Re-emergence of African Dance
B. Katherine Dunham
- The European Influence
B. Hanya Holm
- The Next Generation of Modern Dance Makers
B. Paul Taylor
Alwin Nikolais
- Post-Modernism
B. Performance Art
- Dance from the 1970's to current times
B. Bill T. Jones
C. Pilobolus
D. Pina Bausch
- Current Dance Trends
B. Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
C. Contemporary Dance
1. Canada
2. Germany
3. Spain
4. USA
D. Dance and the Global Community
1. The influence of new technology
INSTRUCTIONAL METHODOLOGIES (instructor initiated learning strategies):
- Course type: scheduled lecture hours
- Individualized instruction
- Facilitates group activities
- Student presentations
- Lecture
- Discussion
- Video
- Class Participation
- Class Work
- Exams/Tests
- Group Projects
- Oral Presentation
- Papers
- Research Projects
- Attend a professional or college dance concert and submit a critique of the performance.
Lihs, Harriet. Appreciation Dance: A Guide to the World’s Liveliest Fourth
Edition . New Jersey: Princeton Book Company, Publishers, A Dance
Horizon’s Book, 2008. ISBN 798-0-87127-0831
Recommended Reading
Anderson, Jack. Art Without Boundaries. Iowa: University of Iowa Press,
1997.
Au, Susan. Ballet and Modern Dance. New York: Thames and Hudson Inc.,
1988.
Nadel, Myron Howard and Marc Raymond Strauss with a Foreward by Edward
Villella. Second Edition. New Jersey: Princeton Book Company, Publishers, 2003
Requirements
1. Four tests. Three tests will include a combination of multiple choice and essay. The final is an oral presentation.
2. An interview of someone involved in dance. The format includes the basic “Who, what when, where, why and how. The paper is a minimum of three pages, not to exceed five. Typed and double-spaced. Size fourteen font.
3. Attend and review a professional dance concert.
Videos are not accepted for this assignment.
Write a two page review of the concert completing two pages double-spaced and typed, size fourteen font. Discuss the choreography and the performance of the dances. A full ten percent of the equivalent of the letter grade “A” will be credited to your overall grade for completing the assignment.
Evaluation
(80 percent) Four tests each which are weighted equally for a total of 80 percent of overall grade. Each test is worth 100 points.
(10 percent) Interview paper will receive a letter grade for 10 percent of course grade.
(10 percent) Performance paper for a credit letter grade of A and 10 percent of course grade.
Dates for tests are subject to change by announcement
To Be Announced
Test dates and papers will be listed on a separate paper, on my academic campus webpage and reminders of the tests will be sent through MYGATEWAY
Scantron # 882-E and a Standard size Blue Book for each test and a number #2 pencil and a black pen. Scantron is in pencil and essays are in pen.
Make-up test
In order to make-up a test it is necessary to provide verification of the reason for the absence. Acceptable excuses are participation in an on-campus play, game or field trip or illness. One make-up is allowed. The final, or oral presentation, may not be made up.
Attendance
According to campus policy, missing a week of class may result in being dropped from the class.
Lectures are not available on the academic web page, but the notes for the lectures are posted as well as the study guides. Paper copies of the study guides will be distributed in class also.
Emergency Response Procedures
Emergency procedures for earthquakes, fires, medical emergencies, and other emergencies are outlined in the “Emergency Procedures” document located in each classroom. Emergency telephones are located on each floor of each building on campus. These phones may be used to call Campus Safety to respond to emergencies. (Campus Safety phone extension is 27777) Security Escort Service. The college provides a service in which faculty and students may be escorted to their cars during evening hours. This service may be requested by using the emergency phones or by calling extension 27777 or from an outside line, 714-992-7777.
Academic Honesty
Students are expected to abide by ethical standards in preparation and presenting material which demonstrates their level of knowledge and which is used to determine grades. Such standards are founded on basic concepts of integrity and honesty. These include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
1. Students shall not plagiarize, which is defined as
A. stealing or passing off as one’s own the ideas or words of another, or
B. using a creative production without crediting the source.
The following cases constitute plagiarism:
1. paraphrasing published material without acknowledging
the source,
2. making significant use of an idea or a particular arrangement
of ideas, e.g., outlines,
3. writing a paper after consultation with persons who provide
suitable ideas and incorporating these ideas into the paper without
acknowledgment, or
4. Submitting under one’s own name term papers or other reports
which have been prepared by others.
2. Students shall not cheat, which is defined as
A. using notes, aides, or the help of other students on tests or exams in
ways other than those expressly permitted by the instructor, or
B. misreporting or altering the data in laboratory or research projects
involving the collection of data.
3. Students shall not furnish materials or information in order to enable another
student to plagiarize or cheat.
Instructors may deal with academic dishonesty in one or more of the following ways:
1. Assign an appropriate academic penalty such as an oral reprimand or point
reduction.
2. Assign an “F” on all or part of a particular paper, project, or exam.
3. Report to the appropriate administrators, with notification of same to the
student(s), for disciplinary action by the College. Such a report will be accompanied by supporting evidence and documentation.
ADA Statement
“Fullerton College is committed to providing educational accommodations for students with disabilities upon the timely request by the student to the instructor. Verification of the disability must be provided. The Disability Support Services office functions as a resource for students and faculty in the determination and provision of educational accommodations.”