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Official Course
Description: MCCCD Approval: 6-26-2007 |
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DAH250
2007 Fall - 2011 Summer II |
LEC
3.0 Credit(s) 3.0 Period(s) 3.0 Load Acad |
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Dance
in Popular Culture |
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Interdisciplinary approach investigating the role dance
plays in shaping American popular culture from the late 19th to the early
21st centuries. Explores social and cultural issues of power, class, gender,
age and sexual orientation. Prerequisites: DAH100. |
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MCCCD
Official Course Competencies: |
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DAH250 2007
Fall - 2011 Summer II |
Dance in Popular Culture |
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Describe and
demonstrate connections between dance and immigration, industry, politics,
fashion, social change, class and gender, other art forms, civic pride,
transportation, mass and fine arts media and education. (III, IV, V) |
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Display the ability to
visually discriminate trends and styles in the cultural and historic
evolution of Dance in America through viewing selected films and videos. (I,
II) |
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Develop and awareness of
conceptual differences in cultural, entertainment, concert, ritual and
educational dance forms. (II, III) |
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Develop their capacity for
understanding the many social contexts for dance in 20th and 21st century
American popular culture. (IV) |
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Develop and understanding of the influence of dance as a
popular and fine art on American cultural norms. (II) |
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Develop a familiarity with
the elements of movement/dance and skills in using that knowledge to form
individual judgments about dance in social and cultural settings. (II, IV) |
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Understand contemporary trends in dance as a broadly based
cultural phenomenon (II, V) |
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MCCCD
Official Course Outline: |
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DAH250 2007
Fall - 2011 Summer II |
Dance in Popular Culture |
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I. Popular perceptions of
dance at the turn of the 20th century II. The emergence of
"art dance" A. Dance in vaudeville B
Dance in Film C Dance and television III. Cultures and their
contributions to popular dance form A. Dance and religion B. Dance in education IV. Dance as a reflection
of social change A. Power B. Class C. Gender V. The Age of Political and
Economic Growth A. Dance as social ritual B. Dance and the emergent
technology |