CDL COURSE ENTRY FORM


Author: Bernice Kennedy/SUNY
Last modified by: Laura Wait/SUNY
Composed: 09/15/2003 03:10 PM
Curriculum Committee Approval Date:
Modified: 10/16/2017
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Course Number: (prefix) ART (number) 223504 ESC 2.0 Course number: DANC-4005 DANC-4005Dance Across World Cultures

Name: Dance Across World Cultures
Datatel Title: (30char) Dance Across World Cultures

Area Coordinator: Alice Lai Department Code: 10AA Team: Humanities

Liberal Study? YES Level: UPPER Credits: 4 Prerequisite? YES
General Education Course? YES GenEd Approval Term/Year:

GenEd Area 1: 7. HumanitiesFully or Partially: f
GenEd Area 2: 8. The ArtsFully or Partially: f



Pre-registration Information?
Course will be offered (for online course descriptions, proposed offerings for by term views and web views)
Spring 1, Fall 1		Course will be offered (for final term listings, online registration, online bookordering, web views)
Spring 1, Fall 1
First Term Offered: (Required Format: YearTerm - i.e., 2005SP)
Last Term Offered in Print Version:
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AC Changes:
BK Number: 25

Description: This course is a cross-cultural examination of dance traditions from around the world in their historical, critical, artistic and socio-cultural contexts. Students will learn to contextualize a variety of dance traditions and differentiate folk, popular and classical traditions. Students will also learn to observe and write about dance from critical, analytical and ethnographic (writing about culture) perspectives.

Materials will include documentary films and selected writings about dance using critical, cultural, historical, sociological, political and philosophical frameworks. Students will have the opportunity to design a research project of their choice using either participant observation in a series of dance classes, observation of live performance, analysis of dance on film or the study of a dance school as the basis for their research.

Prerequisites: upper-level standing with advanced level critical thinking and writing skills.

Recommended: one of the following (or their equivalent, with instructor permission): Humanities Through the Arts, Artistic Expressions in a Multicultural America, An Introduction to Culture.

This course fully meets the General Education requirement in Humanities for 4 credits or in The Arts for 4 credits.

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Major Course Area
The Arts		Minor Course Area
Arts: Visual and Performing, Multicultural and Diversity Studies		SLN Disciplines
Art
Additional Course Requirements
Video Component, WWW Computer Conference		 Undergrad Certificate Association:


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Meets General Education Requirement

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Archive Course:

genedcode for dpplanner: 7^f~8;8^f~8

genedfull area for dpplanner: Humanities;The Arts