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DANCE 675

DANCE AND COMMUNITY

2-3 credits.

Engages with dance arts for and in communities. Working in relation to core ideas about the value of dance/movement in community, covers interdisciplinary research, scholarship, and praxis within this diverse area of work. Investigates how dance and interrelated arts serve as vehicles for social and environmental change in diverse communities. Specific themes might include racial justice, environmental justice, indigenous survival struggles, and how these themes impact or galvanize communities. Theory and practice reaches beyond campus and connects to the H'Doubler legacy as well as the Wisconsin idea.

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Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Learning Outcomes: 1. Learn to listen to learn Audience: Graduate 2. Become self-reflective, respectful, and thoughtful Audience: Graduate 3. Develop understanding and appreciation of community groups through breadth and depth approach to this area of study Audience: Graduate 4. Gain perspective on space, place, and identity Audience: Graduate 5. Demonstrate awareness of issues and show sensitivity to access and accommodations Audience: Graduate 6. Apply skills in working with community groups and diverse populations Audience: Graduate 7. Design and use strategies to effectively engage, coordinate, communicate, collaborate, create with different groups Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Learn to listen to learn Audience: Graduate 2. Become self-reflective, respectful, and thoughtful Audience: Graduate 3. Develop understanding and appreciation of community groups through breadth and depth approach to this area of study Audience: Graduate 4. Gain perspective on space, place, and identity Audience: Graduate 5. Demonstrate awareness of issues and show sensitivity to access and accommodations Audience: Graduate 6. Apply skills in working with community groups and diverse populations Audience: Graduate 7. Design and use strategies to effectively engage, coordinate, communicate, collaborate, create with different groups Audience: Graduate

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