DANC 375 Dance Pedagogy

A course in Dance Pedagogy provides students with the methods and skills for teaching dance by studying diverse teaching and learning techniques in theory and practice. Students will explore evidence based methods in effective teaching and will learn how to be a competent teacher through observation, role play and practice. Aside from building lesson plans and curricula, monitoring dance technique classes, providing teaching samples and framing a personal teaching philosophy, students are required to study writings from a variety of sources dealing with day-to-day societal challenges in dance education such as culture, diversity, acceptance, collaboration, etc. in preparation for class discussions and writing assignments.

Credits

3

Offered

Every other year