Assorted topics related to the field of education and education-related issues. May be repeated with different topics for credit. May not be taken pass/fail.
| Distribution Area | Prerequisites | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| 1/2-1 course |
This course examines teaching, learning, and curriculum through the lived realities of the black dancer. This course defines dance broadly, considering movement practices of the institutional discipline as well as the cultural expression of Black, as well as other marginalized communities. Thus, dance becomes a cultural form of expression within the social and political sphere. In this class, we ask the following questions: (1) What does the dancing body teach? (2) How does it teach? And finally, (3) How is that body further constructed by and navigating blackness and gender? This course draws on various case studies ranging from a variety of media sources¿ some of these case studies include the following: popular dance TV shows, Western concert dance, hip-hop, public protests as well as dance on stage and in schools. Through these visual mediums, this course explores the body's interlocking matrices of oppression, the intertextualities of the body, asking particular questions of the black female experience. The study of dance studies and curriculum studies as academic disciplines can be vast. This course is divided into five modules, each addressing a different philosophical, cosmological, theoretical or methodological approach to analyze dance and bodies historically and contemporarily.