33-3444 Topics in Dance Studies:

Topics in Dance Studies offers an opportunity for in-depth scholarship, developing each student’s aesthetic awareness and analytical voice relative to the field. Each semester the course will focus on specific themes or issues in dance studies. Possible themes include queer choreographies, the black dancing body, readings in ballet history, dance and popular culture, dance ethnography, dance and technology, dance and political economies and others. Through extended research processes - which may include extensive viewing of video and live performances, participation in social dance forms and reading of pertinent literature - students will engage with the aesthetic, political, social and cultural forces that shape the body in motion.

3 Credits
WI Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 33-2342 Cultures & Histories of Dance I and 33-2343 Cultures & Histories of Dance II and 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 33-2342 Cultures & Histories of Dance I and 33-2343 Cultures & Histories of Dance II and 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 33-2342 Cultures & Histories of Dance I and 33-2343 Cultures & Histories of Dance II and 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning or 33-2342 Cultures & Histories of Dance I and 33-2343 Cultures & Histories of Dance II