Learning Outcomes
Dance Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)
1. Dance Domain Communication: Students will apply and synthesize knowledge and skills in properties of style and dance genres, choreographic processes, anatomical and kinesiological concepts of the body, and aesthetic principles that shape artistic and cultural ideas that are necessary for professional careers in teaching, performance, choreography, research, and/or related fields.
2. Creative Engagement Skills: Students will generate, prepare, evaluate, perform, and solve artistic problems essential to communication in dance and expressive dance forms to effectively connect with a diverse audience.
3. Critical Thinking: Students will critically identify, analyze, interpret, reflect, and evaluate dance works and dance skills, and disseminate this knowledge at diverse local and global communities through oral, written, visual, and movement communication.
4. Cultural and Body Literacy: Students will apply, analyze and evaluate multiple perspectives of historical/sociocultural contexts and anatomical and kinesiological concepts of the body in which diverse global dance traditions were achieved.
Student Learning Outcomes for BA in Dance (SLOs)
1. Dance Domain Skills: Students will demonstrate and apply competency beyond basic coursework and performance in one or more dance forms (i.e., modern dance, contemporary dance forms, ballet, hip hop, jazz, Folklorico, Latin dance), which will enable students to pursue careers in dance and dance-related fields.
2. Creating, Performing, Engaging: Students will generate, prepare, evaluate, perform, and solve artistic problems required in dance choreography, performance, production, and artistic expression to effectively connect with diverse audiences.
3. Critical Analyses and Communication Skills: Students will critically identify, analyze, interpret, reflect and evaluate dance in oral, written, visual, and movement communication modalities.
4. Cultural and Body Literacy: Students will describe, compare, analyze, and evaluate historical, sociocultural, and kinesiological dimensions of dance