DANC103 - Watching the Dance Go By

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Watching the Dance Go By
DANC103 FA

With the aid of dance on video and film and in lecture-demonstrations, this course will introduce students to a broad range of dance styles and vocabularies. Ethnographic, historic, and contemporary dance forms will be considered in order to develop a basic dance literacy. Special attention will be focused on the relationship of dance, gender, and sex and the ability of dance to convey ideas and images that confirm or challenge our attitudes and beliefs about being a man or a woman.

MAJOR READINGS

Sally Banes, DANCING WOMEN: FEMALE BODIES ON STAGE
Ramsay Burt, THE MALE DANCER: BODIES, SPECTACLE, SEXUALITIES

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Small guided discussion groups, weekly writing assignments, final research paper, and attendance at dance concerts.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Enrollment limited to forty; twenty spaces reserved for freshmen.

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA DANC Grading Mode: Graded

Prerequisites: NONE

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Feuer,William

Times: .M.W... 10:00AM-12:00PM; Location: CINE

Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 20)

SR. major: X Jr. major: X

SR. non-major: X Jr. non-major: X SO: X FR: 20

Special Attributes:

Curricular Renewal: Reading Non-Verbal Texts, Focused Inquiry Course

FYI: First Year Initiative:Seminar

SECTION 02