DANC 343 - Teaching Creative Movement and Dance

CR: 3
Prerequisite: One DANC course or THTR 189 . This course focuses on ways of encouraging and developing the instinctive creative impulse to express thought and emotion through movement and dance. Through readings, films, lectures, improvisation, field trips, and teaching projects on and off campus, students will explore principles and methods of teaching creative movement and dance to young people and to specific populations. Topics include lesson planning, classroom management, spatial perceptions, and neurological and movement characteristics of the child through adolescence, including those with disabilities. Offered alternate years. III.O