| Module Code: DAN1002 |
Module Title: CULTURAL APPROACHES |
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Module Provider: Dance,Film & Theatre
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Short Name: CULTAPPS
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Level: HE1
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Module Co-ordinator: COURTIER CH Miss (Arts)
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Number of credits: 20
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Number of ECTS credits: 10
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| Module Availability |
Semester 1 and 2 |
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| Assessment Pattern |
Lecture demonstration (10 minutes) (40%)
Bibliography (10%)
Essay (1,500 words) (50%)
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| Module Overview |
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Components of Assessment
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Method(s)
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Percentage weighting
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Presentation
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Lecture Demonstration
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40%
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Coursework
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Bibliography
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10%
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Coursework
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1500 word Essay
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50%
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| Module Aims |
- To provide a factual and conceptual knowledge of the variety of dance forms from different cultures evident in theatre dance, social dances and in different forms of media.
- To create an awareness of the appropriate terminology and the nature of Dance Studies.
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| Learning Outcomes |
Knowledge and Understanding:
- A basic understanding of a range of theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and concepts in Dance Studies.
- An initial comprehension of how different cultures, historical epochs, contexts, and locations create distinct approaches towards training, choreography, performance and corporeal representation.
- A recognition of a range of dance and movement examples from different cultural, historical, theatrical, technological and social contexts.
- A basic familiarity with study skills required to investigate dance practices and theatrical, vernacular or technological representations of dance across cultures and contexts.
Cognitive/Intellectual Skills:
- Ability to analyse a range of dances and movement examples with guidance using provided classifications and principles.
- Ability to evaluate and interpret dances based on observations of components, structure and context.
- Ability to categorise examples of dances.
Practical/Key Skills:
- Ability to apply various theoretical models on identity formation to a range of dance examples.
- Ability to construct rational arguments in support of particular readings of dances.
- Ability to articulate ideas in class discussion in a clear and concise manner.
- Ability to acquire study skills: collating sources and appropriate documentation, essay structuring, academic writing with appropriate support.
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| Module Content |
- The module introduces historical, cultural, technological and institutional developments as reflected in training systems and dances.
- The module draws on methodologies, analytic frameworks and source materials of relevant disciplines such as Dance Studies, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory and Anthropology.
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| Methods of Teaching/Learning |
| Lecture, seminar, video analysis, movement exercises and group discussion. |
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| Selected Texts/Journals |
Required reading:
Adshead-Lansdale, Janet and Layson, June (eds) Dance history: an introduction. London: Routledge, 1994.
Banes, Sally. Terpsichore in sneakers: post-modern dance. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1987.
Bremser, Martha (ed) Fifty Contemporary Choreographers. London: Routledge, 1999.
Carter, Alexandra. The Routledge Dance Studies Reader. London: Routledge, 1998.
DeFrantz, Thomas F. Dancing Many Drums. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.
Delgado, C & J. Muñoz (eds) Every-night Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1997.
Dodds, Sherril Dance on Screen: Genres and Media from Hollywood to Experimental Art. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001.
Foster, Susan Leigh. Corporealities. New York and London: Routledge, 1996.
Grau, Andrée and Jordan, Stephanie. Europe Dancing. London: Dance Books, 2001.
Thomas, Helen (ed) Dance Gender and Culture. London: Macmillan, 1993. |
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| Last Updated |
9 October 09 |
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