Student Learning Outcomes & Objectives

LEARNING OUTCOMES

^{(Borrowed from Dance Performance and Choreography Major at Spellman College)}

KNOWLEDGE & CRITICAL THINKING
Engage in dance as a mode of inquiry, knowledge production, and critical thinking through embodied creative processes, theoretical investigations, literature, and performance.

HISTORICAL/CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
Articulate—orally, in written form, and through embodied practice—historical and contemporary sociocultural contexts of dance practice. 

CHOREOGRAPHIC PROCESS
Demonstrate high-level choreographic skills to investigate, engage in, and develop creative processes for commercial and concert performances.

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION PRACTICE
Demonstrate the ability to self-generate professional opportunities and creative spaces and maneuver within various concert, commercial, and social communities locally, regionally, and internationally.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

The students will:

• explore the development, elements, purposes, and significance of dance and its relationship to other performing arts disciplines.
• demonstrate an ever-growing proficiency in the repertory presented, emphasizing professionalism and performance.
• search for an internal discipline, motivating you to challenge your limits, both physical and psychological, and to motivate others to do the same.
• work to collectively create a community of artists and audience members dedicated to cultural sharing.