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DNCE 3601 - Dance Composition 1

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Movement, vocabulary in relation to theme, space, time, energy, and body parts; solo, duet, and trio forms. prereq: 1020, 1601, concurrent regis in a modern dance technique course, dept consent

DNCE 3602 - Dance Composition 2

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Movement, vocabulary in relation to theme, space, time, energy, and body parts. Solo, duet, and trio forms. prereq: 3601, dept consent, concurrent regis in a modern dance technique course

DNCE 4601 - Dance Composition 3

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Continuation of movement vocabulary through improvisation, analysis of form and structure, experimentation with tone and performance persona. Effects of lights/costumes/text/props/music; development of larger ensemble works. prereq: 3602, concurrent regis in a modern dance technique course, dept consent

DNCE 4602 - Dance Composition 4

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Continuation of 4601. Movement vocabulary through improvisation, analysis of form and structure, experimentation with performance persona, and the effects of technical elements. Development of larger ensemble works. prereq: 4601, concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in modern dance technique course, dept consent

DNCE 5601 - Dance Composition 5

Credits:	1.0 -2.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Final part of six-semester sequence in dance composition. Exploration of movement through independently scheduled rehearsals. Choreographic concepts. Tools in dance creation, development/refinement of movement, structure of group choreography. prereq: 4601, 4602, dept consent

DNCE 1626 - Music for Dance (AH)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Cultural gravity of the Western perspective. Ways global regions express natural laws of acoustics through music while considering historical, political, and ethical issues around the relationship between music and dance. Workshops, practice, and exercises. prereq: dept consent

DNCE 3401W - Dance History 1 (GP, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Historiography of dance, 20th century through present. Reconstruction/incorporation of dance practice in context of globalization. Artistic choices as influenced by complex history of performing arts and terrain of body/politics.

DNCE 3402W - Dance History 2 (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

History/theory of dance in varied forms/aspects. From development of ballet through 20th century modern dance. Second half of year-long survey. prereq: 3401W

DNCE 3433 - Articulate Body

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Lectures and movement sessions in biodynamic considerations for optimal dance performance and metabolistic demands of dance. prereq: Dnce major, dept consent

DNCE 3621 - Dance Production I

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Technical/administrative aspects of dance production. Lighting, costumes, sound, marketing, stage management, fundraising, publicity. Emphasizes practical project management and personal management skills. prereq: Dance major, dept consent

DNCE 3622 - Dance Production II

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Continuation of 3621. Students produce the spring Student Dance Concert. prereq: 3621, dance major, dept consent

DNCE 4443 - Theorizing Dancing Bodies

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Dnce 4443/Dnce 5443
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Major developments in Western philosophic thought on dance and dance theory, from its beginnings to present. prereq: 3402W or instr consent

DNCE 3901 - Career Readiness in Dance

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring & Summer

Strategies fundamental to a dancer's survival. Injury prevention/care. Development of healthy dietary and muscular/skeletal habits. Career tracks. prereq: Dance major, dept consent

DNCE 5858 - Dance Pedagogy

Credits:	3.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Teaching dance provides the foundational pedagogy and methods for artful and responsible teaching and learning in dance. Students will examine key dance education theories and quality teaching practices, and then apply the theories by developing and teaching dance lessons. The course introduces tools that assist in the planning, teaching, assessing, and sharing of dance experiences with children, adolescent, and adult learners in a variety of settings. Specific learning opportunities include: readings, investigation and discussion of dance pedagogy; the creation of lesson plans; teaching labs (in-class and off-site supervised practice teaching); and clinical observations where students can observe the theory in practice.

DNCE 1010 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 3

Credits:	1.0 -2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Third course in ten-section sequence of modern dance technique. Beginning modern dance technique training. Dance form varies by instructor. prereq: dept consent, audition

DNCE 1020 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 4

Credits:	1.0 -2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Fourth course in ten-section sequence of modern dance technique. Beginning modern dance technique training. Dance form varies by instructor. prereq: 1010, dept consent, audition

DNCE 3010 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 5

Credits:	2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Fifth course in ten-section sequence of modern dance technique. Application of principles of space, time, energy. Alignment, power from pelvic center, rotation/turnout, muscular tonality, joint articulation, clarity of intent, stretch, strength, stamina. prereq: dept consent, audition

DNCE 3020 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 6

Credits:	2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Sixth course in ten-section sequence of modern dance technique. Application of principles of space, time, energy. Alignment, power from pelvic center, rotation/turnout, muscular tonality, joint articulation, clarity of intent, stretch, strength, stamina. prereq: 3010, dept consent, audition

DNCE 5010 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 7

Credits:	2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Seventh course in ten-section sequence of modern dance technique. Continuation of technical development. Performance range/style. Students study with various guest artists. prereq: dept consent, audition

DNCE 5020 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 8

Credits:	2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Eighth course in ten-section sequence of modern dance technique. Performance range/style. Students study with various guest artists. prereq: 5010, dept consent, audition

DNCE 5030 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 9

Credits:	2.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Ninth course in ten-section sequence of modern dance technique. It focuses on pre-professional technique training for students prepared for that level of technical achievement and readying themselves for a potential career as contemporary dance professionals. All Dance Program Modern Dance Technique courses examine the practical application and understanding of principles of space, time, and energy focusing on alignment, weight, momentum, power for the body's core, joint and skeletal articulation, clarity of focus and intent, flexibility, strength, stamina and energy flow and lines through the use of breath appropriate to the technical level of the course. The course also explores a range of performance strategies that students may encounter for future performance experiences within the dance program and beyond.

DNCE 5040 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 10

Credits:	2.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Tenth course in ten-section sequence of modern dance technique. It focuses on pre-professional technique training for students prepared for that level of technical achievement and readying themselves for a potential career as contemporary dance professionals. All dance program modern dance technique courses examine the practical application and understanding of principles of space, time, and energy focusing on alignment, weight, momentum, power for the body's core, joint and skeletal articulation, clarity of focus and intent, flexibility, strength, stamina and energy flow and lines through the use of breath appropriate to the technical level of the course. The course also explores a range of performance strategies that students may encounter for future performance experiences within the dance program and beyond.

DNCE 1110 - Ballet Technique 3

Credits:	2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

First of two-semester sequence of beginning ballet technique. Level 3 in eight-level sequence of ballet technique. Practical application of ballet principles. Barre work needed for center work. Center work will consist of adagio, basic turns, petit, grand allegro. prereq: dept consent, audition

DNCE 1120 - Ballet Technique 4

Credits:	2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Second of two-semester sequence in beginning ballet. Practical application of ballet principles. Barre/center work. Ever-changing combinations/steps learned in previous level. prereq: 1110, dept consent, audition

DNCE 3110 - Ballet Technique 5

Credits:	2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Stretch, strength, balance, musicality. Longer phrases in adagio/allegro work. More complex elevations in petit allegro. Practical work conducted in context of study of technical development of ballet. prereq: dept consent, audition

DNCE 3120 - Ballet Technique 6

Credits:	2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Continuation of 3110. Ballet technique. Stretch, strength, balance, musicality. Longer phrases in adagio/allegro work. More complex elevations in petit allegro. prereq: 3110, dept consent, audition

DNCE 1353 - African Diasporic Movement 3

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Third of six-course sequence. Afro-Brazilian dance, including jumps, turns, floor work, and rhythmicity to develop flexibility, strength, and vocabulary in polycentric movement, moving toward body-sound harmony, illuminating dynamics of coordination, relaxation, breathing, undulation.

DNCE 1354 - African Diasporic Movement 4

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Fourth of six-course sequence. Builds on level 3 by exploring movement from mythology of Afro-Brazilian belief systems orix� and Candombl�. How corporal knowledge and technique fluency through the course sequence support different dance techniques. prereq: 1353 or audition or instr consent

DNCE 1210 - Jazz Technique 3

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Third of six-semester sequence of jazz dance. Vocabulary. Technical skills using variety of jazz dance styles while increasing flexibility, groundedness, strength. Increase understanding of musicality, dynamics, style, improvisation. prereq: dept consent, audition

DNCE 1220 - Jazz Technique 4

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Fourth of six-semester sequence of jazz dance. Expand vocabulary/develop skills, technique, style. Increase flexibility, strength. Use of space, clear articulation of movement, rhythmic footwork, grounding movement, dynamics, musicality. prereq: 1210, dept consent, audition

DNCE 3301 - Tap Technique 3

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Tap techniques and creative development through improvisational studies. prereq: 1302 or instr consent

DNCE 3302 - Tap Technique 4

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Tap techniques and rhythm structures. prereq: 3301 or instr consent

DNCE 3341 - Urban & Street Dance Forms 3: Emerging Scholar

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This is the third course in the dance program's 4-semester Urban and Street Dance sequence. It focuses on intermediate/advanced techniques in rocking, breaking, funk styles, krump, house, and specific techniques that mix these forms together. These further explorations focus on more advanced techniques, aesthetics, and complex issues within forms practiced by instructors. Students are assigned readings, videos, and writing assignments to think critically about each issue. There is an informal showing at the end of the semester. prereq: Completion of DNCE 2341 or audition.

DNCE 3342 - Urban & Street Dance Forms 4: Scholar

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This is the final course in the Dance Program's 4-semester Urban and Street Styles sequence. It focuses on advanced techniques in rocking, breaking, funk styles, krump, house, and specific techniques that mix these forms together. These further explorations focus on advanced techniques, aesthetics, and complex issues within forms practiced by instructors. Students are assigned readings, videos, and writing assignments to think critically about each issue. There is an informal showing at the end of the semester. Prerequisite: Completion of DNCE 3341 or audition

DNCE 1210 - Jazz Technique 3

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Third of six-semester sequence of jazz dance. Vocabulary. Technical skills using variety of jazz dance styles while increasing flexibility, groundedness, strength. Increase understanding of musicality, dynamics, style, improvisation. prereq: dept consent, audition

DNCE 1220 - Jazz Technique 4

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Fourth of six-semester sequence of jazz dance. Expand vocabulary/develop skills, technique, style. Increase flexibility, strength. Use of space, clear articulation of movement, rhythmic footwork, grounding movement, dynamics, musicality. prereq: 1210, dept consent, audition

DNCE 1353 - African Diasporic Movement 3

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Third of six-course sequence. Afro-Brazilian dance, including jumps, turns, floor work, and rhythmicity to develop flexibility, strength, and vocabulary in polycentric movement, moving toward body-sound harmony, illuminating dynamics of coordination, relaxation, breathing, undulation.

DNCE 1354 - African Diasporic Movement 4

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Fourth of six-course sequence. Builds on level 3 by exploring movement from mythology of Afro-Brazilian belief systems orix� and Candombl�. How corporal knowledge and technique fluency through the course sequence support different dance techniques. prereq: 1353 or audition or instr consent

DNCE 3210 - Jazz Technique 5

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Continuation of jazz technique. Rhythm structures, longer phrases, greater physical speed, attack/control. prereq: dept consent, audition

DNCE 3220 - Jazz Technique 6

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Continuation of 3210. Jazz technique. Rhythm structures, longer phrases, greater physical speed, attack/control. prereq: 3210, dept consent, audition

DNCE 3301 - Tap Technique 3

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Tap techniques and creative development through improvisational studies. prereq: 1302 or instr consent

DNCE 3302 - Tap Technique 4

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Tap techniques and rhythm structures. prereq: 3301 or instr consent

DNCE 3341 - Urban & Street Dance Forms 3: Emerging Scholar

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This is the third course in the dance program's 4-semester Urban and Street Dance sequence. It focuses on intermediate/advanced techniques in rocking, breaking, funk styles, krump, house, and specific techniques that mix these forms together. These further explorations focus on more advanced techniques, aesthetics, and complex issues within forms practiced by instructors. Students are assigned readings, videos, and writing assignments to think critically about each issue. There is an informal showing at the end of the semester. prereq: Completion of DNCE 2341 or audition.

DNCE 3342 - Urban & Street Dance Forms 4: Scholar

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This is the final course in the Dance Program's 4-semester Urban and Street Styles sequence. It focuses on advanced techniques in rocking, breaking, funk styles, krump, house, and specific techniques that mix these forms together. These further explorations focus on advanced techniques, aesthetics, and complex issues within forms practiced by instructors. Students are assigned readings, videos, and writing assignments to think critically about each issue. There is an informal showing at the end of the semester. Prerequisite: Completion of DNCE 3341 or audition

DNCE 3700 - Performance

Credits:	1.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Creation or reconstruction of a dance theatre work under the direction of a guest artist or faculty member. Work is performed at the end of the rehearsal period. prereq: Concurrent enrollment in a technique course, audition, dept consent

DNCE 5700 - Performance

Credits:	1.0 -2.0 [max 8.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Technique, improvisation, choreography, music, design, and technical production as they relate to dance performance. prereq: concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in technique course, dept consent, audition based Students cast in more than one choreographic piece should register for section 002 for 2 credits

DNCE 1701 - Freshman/Sophomore Repertory

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Immersed in a professional dance company environment, this repertory class will help students develop the necessary skills to effectively navigate the complexities inherent to professional repertory dance companies. Through learning the unique and varied styles of multiple choreographers, the course examines distinguishing factors of these various choreographic works, illuminating for the student, their responsibilities as dance artists and further developing their abilities to maintain the integrity of preexisting works.

DNCE 3701 - Summer Dance Intensive

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Real-world experience with a professional dance company. Students participate in daily technique and repertory classes culminating in an informal performance. Artists are arranged year-by-year.

DNCE 3411 - Dance and Popular Culture: Choreographing Race, Class, and Gender (DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

How race, class, and gender become aestheticized and are put into motion as popular culture. Choreographic analysis of moving bodies. How "popular" affects understanding of culture. Exoticism, binary structures of stereotypes, identity, hegemony.

DNCE 5493 - Choreographing Social Justice: Staging "Equitable" Choreographies

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Possibilities and implications of artistic work. Metaphoric bodily practices and intersections of performance and social justice practices. Theories and histories of intersections within communities of color across global North and South. Group project. prereq: 4443 recommended

AFRO 3112 - In the Heart of the Beat: the Poetry of Rap

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Contemporary African American poetry as expressed by popular culture contributors. Students analyze/evaluate poems used in rap, in context of African American literature, American culture, and aesthetics.

AFRO 3301 - The Music of Black Americans (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3301/Mus 3301
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course examines the variety of ways African and African Americans express social history through music. It will consider the union of African elements and European elements that combined to present a new syncretized African-American product. To do this it is imperative that we explore the diversity of musical ?voices? found within the African American culture. This diversity can be seen in the struggles to retain African cultural effects and the desire to be eclectic, creative, and contemporary. Such an approach to the study of the place of Black music in American music corresponds with the criteria of Diversity and Social Justice in the United States Liberal Education. The ?multi-layered operation of power, prestige, and privilege? can be understood through an examination of the music of African Americans, which represents both a Free African voice and an enslaved African voice; the western-trained Black performer/composer and the self-taught performer/composer. It also represents the habits of well-to-do African Americans and the poor African Americans. Students will examine the complexities of the history of African Americans and how this is played out in the development of musical styles and genres. From this, students will then begin to understand how this unique diversity within a community affects those outside of those communities. Such an approach to the study of the place of Black music in American music corresponds with the criteria of Diversity and Social Justice in the United States Liberal Education. We will follow elements found in West African culture and music such as "call and response" and the "2nd Line" as they travel to the "New World" and expressed through Spirituals, Symphonies, Gospel Music, Jazz, Rock and Roll, Step Bands and more. Through lectures, readings, discussion, audiovisual examples, and homework assignments student can expect to gain a deeper understanding of the ways music both reflects and influences the social history of all Americans.

AMST 3113W - Global Minnesota: Diversity in the 21st Century (DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Diverse cultural (racial, ethnic, class) groups in America. Institutions/processes that shape their relations and create domination, resistance, hybridity, nationalism, racism, alliance. Specific content may vary.

AMST 3114 - America in International Perspective (DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

The nature of international cultural exchange. The impact of U.S. cultures and society on other countries of the world as well as the impact of other cultures and societies on the United States.

AMST 3253W - American Popular Culture and Politics: 1940 to the Present (HIS, CIV, WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring & Summer

Historical analysis of how popular arts represent issues of gender, race, consumerism, and citizenship. How popular artists define boundaries of citizenship and public life: inclusions/exclusions in polity and national identity. How popular arts reinforce/alter political ideologies.

ANTH 3003 - Cultural Anthropology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 3003/GloS 3003
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Topics vary. Field research. Politics of ethnographic knowledge. Marxist/feminist theories of culture. Culture, language, and discourse. Psychological anthropology. Culture/transnational processes.

ANTH 3036 - The Body in Society

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Body-related practices throughout the world. Readings, documentaries, mass media.

ANTH 3043 - Art, Aesthetics and Anthropology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Summer Odd Year

The relationship of art to culture from multiple perspectives including art as a cultural system; the cultural context of art production; the role of the artist in different cultures; methodological considerations in the interpretation of art across cultural boundaries.

ARTH 3401W - Art on Trial (AH, CIV, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Why does art so often elicit anger, debate, protest, and vandalism? Arts controversies raise many difficult questions that this class examines: should artists be allowed to use taxpayer funds to create works of art critical of the government or that some find offensive? Should public sculptures commemorate Confederates, slave owners, or colonialists? How do we know when something is obscene? Is censorship ethical? Do artists have the right to control the fate of their work after it is sold? Who should decide what artists are chosen for public commissions, what artworks are selected for public buildings, or how works of art should be interpreted? Does public opinion make bad art? This course trains students in the history of arts controversies in the United States from the 19th century to the present and in the changing social conditions through which art has become a flashpoint for public debate. Assignments focus on discipline-specific research and writing techniques that build toward a group project in which students research, take up positions, and debate the merits of important case studies. The class is primarily designed for students to learn about the arts and arts policy today, i.e., the art world of which they are and will be citizens. They are asked to inspect the sources of dominant cultural beliefs and to gain a deeper understanding of and take responsibility for their own cultural, political, and artistic values.

ARTH 3464 - Art Since 1945 (HIS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

The end of the Second World War is commonly understood as a watershed moment in art history when the center of western art shifted from Paris to New York and the old tradition of art academies and annual salons disappeared once and for all. It is a moment that sees dramatic changes in who artists are, how they are trained, what kind of art they make, and the audiences to whom they appeal. This course surveys U.S. and European art history from 1945 to the present so that students gain a thorough understanding of the social, political, and economic forces that contributed to the development of significant art movements including abstract expressionism, pop art, and minimalism, as well as key modes of artmaking including painting and sculpture, happenings, installations, video, earthworks, and participatory art. The course also trains students in philosophies of art and tracks the dramatic changes in aesthetics over the period. Primarily a lecture course, students? historical knowledge is assessed through two in-class examinations in which they identify, compare, contrast, and think critically about works of art. In addition, students practice discipline-specific research skills by compiling an annotated bibliography and writing short papers that rigorously examine primary sources.

CSCL 3351W - The Body and the Politics of Representation (HIS, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Western representation of the human body, 1500 to present. Body's appearance as a site and sight for production of social and cultural difference (race, ethnicity, class, gender). Visual arts, literature, music, medical treatises, courtesy literature, erotica. (previously 3458W)

CSCL 3425W - Critical Theory and Social Change (AH, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course introduces students to influential thinkers in the field of critical theory, broadly conceived. Critical theory is similar to philosophy because it asks big questions that stretch the boundaries of human knowledge. But it is distinct in its focus on practical change?critical theory advocates for a more just and emancipated human world. Its key techniques are the diagnosis and critique of histories, systems, and ideologies of social power. Critical theory emerged from a group of Marxist intellectuals in the 1920s and 30s who were concerned about the rise of fascism, the staggering inequalities produced by industrial capitalism, the trauma of mass violence, and the numbing standardization of modern life. Since then, the field has expanded to encompass concerns about structural racism, gender inequality, the rise of neoliberalism, the expansion of modern carceral and mental health systems, and the ongoing inequities wrought by histories of slavery, colonization, and imperial conquest. Featured authors may include Sigmund Freud, W. E. B. Du Bois, Georg Simmel, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Frantz Fanon, Herbert Marcuse, Patricia Hill Collins, Malcom X, Jackie Wang, Angela Y. Davis, Sheldon George, Alfredo Carrasquillo, Joshua Javier Guzman, Willy Apollon, Jean Rouch, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Saidiya Hartman, bell hooks, �douard Glissant, Aurora Levins Morales, Michael Rothberg, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Christopher Pexa, Yuichiro Onishi, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Lewis Gordon, and Barbara Christian.

DNCE 3334 - Introduction to Dance/Movement Therapy

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Historical/theoretical perspectives on use of movement/dance in relationship to psychology/healing. D/MT pioneers/techniques. Applications of D/MT with various populations/settings. Experiential course. prereq: dept consent

DNCE 3411 - Dance and Popular Culture: Choreographing Race, Class, and Gender (DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

How race, class, and gender become aestheticized and are put into motion as popular culture. Choreographic analysis of moving bodies. How "popular" affects understanding of culture. Exoticism, binary structures of stereotypes, identity, hegemony.

DNCE 3434 - Nutrition and Body Maintenance for Movement Artists

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Students learn and research ways to improve nutrition and remain injury-free throughout career and beyond. Discuss nutrition principles and apply to unique challenges, needs, interests of movement artists. Examine anatomy of movement to develop constructive injury prevention and management strategies. Stress reduction.

DNCE 5334 - Introduction to Dance/Movement Therapy

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Historical/theoretical perspectives on use of movement/dance in relationship to psychology/healing. D/MT pioneers/techniques. Applications of D/MT with various populations/settings. Experiential course. prereq: dept consent

DNCE 5493 - Choreographing Social Justice: Staging "Equitable" Choreographies

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Possibilities and implications of artistic work. Metaphoric bodily practices and intersections of performance and social justice practices. Theories and histories of intersections within communities of color across global North and South. Group project. prereq: 4443 recommended

GLOS 3602 - Other Worlds: Globalization and Culture

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

'Globalization' and 'Culture' are both terms that have been defined and understood in a variety of ways and the significance of which continues to be debated to the present, both inside and outside the academy. Globalization has been talked about both as an irresistible historical force, tending toward the creation of an increasingly interconnected, or, as is sometimes claimed, an increasingly homogeneous world, and as a set of processes, the outcome of which remains open-ended and uncertain, as likely to produce new kinds of differences as universal sameness. Culture meanwhile has been variously defined as that which distinguishes humans from other species (and which all humans therefore share) and as that which divides communities of humans from one another on the basis of different beliefs, customs, values etc. This course reflects on some of the possible meanings of both "Globalization" and "Culture" and asks what we can learn by considering them in relation to one another. How do the phenomena associated with globalization, such as increasing flows of people, capital, goods and information across increasing distances challenge our understandings of culture, including the idea that the world is composed of so many discrete and bounded "cultures"? At the same time, does culture and its associated expressive forms, including narrative fiction, poetry and film, furnish us with new possibilities for thinking about globalization? Does global interconnection produce a single, unified world, or multiple worlds? Are the movements of people, goods, ideas and information across distances associated with new developments caused by contemporary globalization, or have they been going on for centuries or even millennia? Might contemporary debates about climate change and environmental crisis compel us to consider these phenomena in new ways? The course addresses these questions as they have been discussed by scholars from a variety of disciplines and as they have been imagined by artists, poets, novelists and filmmakers. In doing so, it considers whether the distinctiveness of present day globalization is to be sought in part in the new forms of imagining and creative expression to which it has given rise.

GWSS 3003 - Gender and Global Politics (SOCS, GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Similarities/differences in women's experiences throughout world, from cross-cultural/historical perspective. Uses range of reading materials/media (feminist scholarship, fiction, film, news media, oral history, autobiography).

GWSS 3302 - Women and the Arts (AH, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Study of women in the arts, as represented and as participants (creators, audiences). Discussion of at least two different art forms and works from at least two different U.S. ethnic or cultural communities.

GWSS 4103 - Transnational Feminist Theory (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GWSS 4103/GWSS 5104
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Third World and transnational feminisms. Interrogating the categories of "women," "feminism," and "Third World." Varieties of power/oppression that women have endured/resisted, including colonization, nationalism, globalization, and capitalism. Concentrates on postcolonial context.

KIN 3001 - Lifetime Health and Wellness (SOCS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Overview of health/wellness. Physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, social, environmental, and financial health. Influence of societal changes on general health/wellness of diverse populations.

KIN 3027 - Human Anatomy for Kinesiology, Physical Activity, and Health Promotion

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Kinesiology 3027 is a 4-credit introduction to human anatomy with two 50-min lectures and one 100-min lab per week. Upon completing this course, students will be able to use proper anatomical terminology and identify the majority of the human anatomical structures and their functions. The lecture series is organized around an organ systems approach and currently follows the text of Human Anatomy. The lectures are divided into basic anatomy and human development principles and the major anatomical systems: skin, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, neurological, endocrine, immune, and digestive. Each section proceeds an anatomic description from the microscopic or cellular level to the key features of tissues that aggregate into organ anatomy (bottom up). The kinetic anatomy perspective describes organ systems' dynamic and functional characteristics based on their component organ anatomy and interactions (top-down). The context for course material covered will reflect a kinesiology focus on human movement in exercise and sports. This will better prepare students for graduate school courses in the health sciences, movement sciences, and Athletic Training. In addition, students will be encouraged to learn their anatomy as a health and preventive medicine skill. The laboratory component is divided into two; one identifies cells, tissues, and bones and the different bone parts. These activities are performed in the Human Performance Teaching Laboratory (HPTL) in Mariucci Arena 141. Laboratory activities include using light microscopes to identify cells and tissues and working with individual bones and intact skeletons. The second component is the cadaver lab at the Anatomy Bequest Program. Students will have the opportunity to visualize and identify anatomical structures in cadavers and cadavers specimens during these labs. The cadaver labs provide students with the three-dimensional organization of the human anatomy and the association with neighboring anatomical structures. The instructors will demonstrate the functional anatomical aspects and clinical anatomical correlations. Students are able to further complement their understanding of human anatomy by using anatomy and physiology virtual labs.

MUS 5950 - Topics in Music

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 60.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer

Each offering focuses on a single topic. Topics specified in Class Schedule.

PA 4101 - Nonprofit Management and Governance

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Managing/governing nonprofit/public organizations. Theories, concepts, real-world examples. Governance systems, strategic management practices, effect of different funding environments, management of multiple constituencies.

TH 3716 - Stage Management

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Production process, pre-production to maintaining/closing. Managing rehearsals, communication, conflict resolution. Individual/group projects: promptbook building, blocking notation, Cue placement/execution, scene breakdowns, creating/maintaining checklist, building a form library. prereq: 1501 or instr consent

TH 5117 - Performance and Social Change

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Reading, writing, research, presentations and workshops explore activist performance projects. Theories of social formation and ideology provide framework to discuss/animate theater's potential for social change. prereq: Jr or sr or grad student

AAS 3251W - Sociological Perspectives on Race, Class, and Gender (SOCS, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3251W/Afro 3251W/Soc 3251W
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

In the midst of social unrest, it is important for us to understand social inequality. In this course we will analyze the impact of three major forms of inequality in the United States: race, class, and gender. Through taking an intersectional approach at these topics, we will examine the ways these social forces work institutionally, conceptually, and in terms of our everyday realities. We will focus on these inequalities as intertwined and deeply embedded in the history of the country. Along with race, class, and gender we will focus on other axes of inequality including sexuality, citizenship, and dis/ability. We will analyze the meanings and values attached to these social categories, and the ways in which these social constructions help rationalize, justify, and reproduce social inequality.

AFRO 3251W - Sociological Perspectives on Race, Class, and Gender (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3251W/Afro 3251W/Soc 3251W
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Analytical overview of three major forms of inequalities in the United Sates today: race, class, gender. Focus on these inequalities as relatively autonomous from one another and as deeply connected/intertwined with one another. Intersectionality key to critical understanding of these social forces. Social change possibilities.

SOC 3251W - Sociological Perspectives on Race, Class, and Gender (SOCS, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3251W/Afro 3251W/Soc 3251W
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

In the midst of social unrest, it is important for us to understand social inequality. In this course we will analyze the impact of three major forms of inequality in the United States: race, class, and gender. Through taking an intersectional approach at these topics, we will examine the ways these social forces work institutionally, conceptually, and in terms of our everyday realities. We will focus on these inequalities as intertwined and deeply embedded in the history of the country. Along with race, class, and gender we will focus on other axes of inequality including sexuality, citizenship, and dis/ability. We will analyze the meanings and values attached to these social categories, and the ways in which these social constructions help rationalize, justify, and reproduce social inequality. prereq: Soc majors/minors must register A-F

AMST 4101 - Gender, Sexuality, and Politics in America (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmSt 4101/GLBT 4101
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Ways public and private life intersect through the issues of gender, sexuality, family, politics, and public life; ways in which racial, ethnic, and class divisions have been manifest in the political ideologies affecting private life.

GLBT 4101 - Gender, Sexuality, and Politics in America (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmSt 4101/GLBT 4101
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Ways public and private life intersect through the issues of gender, sexuality, family, politics, and public life; ways in which racial, ethnic, and class divisions have been manifest in the political ideologies affecting private life.

ANAT 3001 - Human Anatomy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anat 3001/Anat 3611/Anat 3601
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Anatomical relationships. Function based upon form. Clinical applications. Gross (macroscopic) anatomy, histology (microscopic anatomy). Neuroanatomy (nervous system), embryology (developmental anatomy). prereq: [BIOL 1002W or BIOL 1009 or BIOL 2002 or equiv], at least soph

ANAT 3651 - Principles of Human Anatomy with Cadaver Laboratory

Credits:	5.0 [max 5.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anat 3002/3302/3602/3612/3651
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Anatomical relationships. Function based upon form. Clinical applications. Gross (macroscopic) anatomy, histology (microscopic anatomy). Neuroanatomy (nervous system), embryology (developmental anatomy). 150 minutes of lecture and 2 hrs or lab per week. Lecture sections are (i) three 50-minute sessions per week; or (ii) two 75-minute session per week. All lab sections are 2hrs. The course director will not allow students to register after the class has started. This course has mandatory orientation sessions that cannot be missed. Principles of Human Anatomy (ANAT 3651, lecture and lab components) is offered in the spring. Human Anatomy (ANAT 3001, has only a lecture component) is offered in fall. ANAT 3651 and ANAT 3001 are not equivalent. A student in-need of a lab component must register for ANAT 3651. This course would be equivalent to someone taking (3601or 3611) and (3602 or3612). prereq: [BIOL 1002 or BIOL 1009 or BIOL 2002 or equiv], at least soph

ANAT 3658H - Principles of Human Anatomy with Cadaver Laboratory for Honors Students

Credits:	6.0 [max 6.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ANAT 3658H/3608H
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Anatomical relationships. Function based upon form. Clinical applications. Gross (macroscopic) anatomy, histology (microscopic anatomy). Neuroanatomy (nervous system), embryology (developmental anatomy). 150 minutes of lecture and 2 hrs or lab per week. Lecture sections are (i) three 50-minute sessions per week; or (ii) two 75-minute session per week. All lab sections are 2hrs. prereq: [BIOL 1002 or BIOL 1009 or BIOL 2002 or equiv], at least soph. The course director will not allow students to register after the class has started. This course has mandatory orientation sessions that cannot be missed. Principles of Human Anatomy (ANAT 3651, lecture and lab components) is offered in the spring. Human Anatomy (ANAT 3001, has only a lecture component) is offered in fall. ANAT 3651 and ANAT 3001 are not equivalent. A student in-need of a lab component must register for ANAT 3651.

CSCL 3350W - Sexuality and Culture (DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CSCL 3350W/GLBT 3456W
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.

GLBT 3456W - Sexuality and Culture (DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CSCL 3350W/GLBT 3456W
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.

GLOS 3144 - Knowledge, Power, and the Politics of Representation in Global Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GloS 3144/GloS 3144H
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course provides an introductory overview of core theories and concepts that prepare students for successful completion of the Global Studies curriculum. In this half of the Global Studies core course sequence, students will investigate questions pertaining to how representations of the modern world in popular media and academic writing contribute to, reaffirm, and often challenge relations of inequality and division tied to such categories as ethnicity, gender, and race. Drawing on a wide range of interdisciplinary sources including magazines, novels, films, and digital media, these questions may include: How do cultural representations of the Global South reinforce European imperial and colonial projects? What role do mass-market magazines and newspapers have in constructing difference and producing stereotypes that justify imperialist attitudes? How does the development of technologies, from railroads to the internet, affect collective experiences of time and space? How is 'fake news' and intentional misrepresentation a threat to democracy and to the ecological security of the Earth? Students will meet twice a week for lecture and attend a weekly recitation section, with assignments that include short writing exercises and/or weekly Canvas posts and a midterm and final examination. This course will show how the politics of representation and knowledge production relate to changing formations of power, while giving students the conceptual vocabulary and critical skills to prepare for subsequent Global Studies courses. Prereq: soph, jr, or sr

GLOS 3144H - Honors: Knowledge, Power, and the Politics of Representation in Global Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GloS 3144/GloS 3144H
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course provides an introductory overview of core theories and concepts that prepare students for successful completion of the Global Studies curriculum. In this half of the Global Studies core course sequence, students will investigate questions pertaining to how representations of the modern world in popular media and academic writing contribute to, reaffirm, and often challenge relations of inequality and division tied to such categories as ethnicity, gender, and race. Drawing on a wide range of interdisciplinary sources including magazines, novels, films, and digital media, these questions may include: How do cultural representations of the Global South reinforce European imperial and colonial projects? What role do mass-market magazines and newspapers have in constructing difference and producing stereotypes that justify imperialist attitudes? How does the development of technologies, from railroads to the internet, affect collective experiences of time and space? How is 'fake news' and intentional misrepresentation a threat to democracy and to the ecological security of the Earth? Students will meet twice a week for lecture and attend a weekly recitation section with assignments that include short writing exercises and/or weekly Canvas posts and a midterm and final examination. This course will show how the politics of representation and knowledge production relate to changing formations of power, while giving students the conceptual vocabulary and critical skills to prepare for subsequent Global Studies courses. Prereq: Honors soph, jr, or sr

GLOS 3145 - Global Modernity, the Nation-State, and Capitalism

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GloS 3145/GloS 3415H
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course provides an introductory overview of core theories and concepts that prepare students for successful completion of the Global Studies curriculum. In this half of the Global Studies core course sequence, students will investigate questions pertaining to the emergence of global modernity, capitalism, and the nation-state, with particular focus on theoretical concepts and institutional forms. Drawing on a wide range of interdisciplinary sources including critical theory, philosophy, and texts from the social sciences, these questions may include: How did reason and culture emerge as key concepts in modernity, and how were they associated with transformations in time and space? How did the nation-state become a dominant political unit in the West, and how do postcolonial African states challenge its structure? What is the relationship between the Western liberal tradition, secularity, and violence? What are the histories and internal dynamics of the capitalist economy? Students will meet twice a week for lecture and attend a weekly recitation section, with assignments that include short writing exercises, a group project, and midterm and final examinations. This course will contextualize and trouble aspects of the global that are easily abstracted and taken for granted, while giving students the conceptual vocabulary and critical skills to prepare for subsequent Global Studies courses. Prereq: soph, jr, or sr Units: 3.00

GLOS 3145H - Honors: Global Modernity, the Nation-State, and Capitalism

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GloS 3145/GloS 3415H
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course provides an introductory overview of core theories and concepts that prepare students for successful completion of the Global Studies curriculum. In this half of the Global Studies core course sequence, students will investigate questions pertaining to the emergence of global modernity, capitalism, and the nation-state, with particular focus on theoretical concepts and institutional forms. Drawing on a wide range of interdisciplinary sources including critical theory, philosophy, and texts from the social sciences, these questions may include: How did reason and culture emerge as key concepts in modernity, and how were they associated with transformations in time and space? How did the nation-state become a dominant political unit in the West, and how do postcolonial African states challenge its structure? What is the relationship between the Western liberal tradition, secularity, and violence? What are the histories and internal dynamics of the capitalist economy? Students will meet twice a week for lecture and attend a weekly recitation section with assignments that include short writing exercises, a group project, and midterm and final examinations. This course will contextualize and trouble aspects of the global that are easily abstracted and taken for granted, while giving students the conceptual vocabulary and critical skills to prepare for subsequent Global Studies courses. Prereq: Honors soph, jr, or sr Units: 3.00

GWSS 4103 - Transnational Feminist Theory (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GWSS 4103/GWSS 5104
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Third World and transnational feminisms. Interrogating the categories of "women," "feminism," and "Third World." Varieties of power/oppression that women have endured/resisted, including colonization, nationalism, globalization, and capitalism. Concentrates on postcolonial context.

GWSS 5104 - Transnational Feminist Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Third World and transnational feminisms. Interrogating the categories of "women," "feminism," and "Third World." Varieties of power/oppression that women have endured/resisted, including colonization, nationalism, globalization, and capitalism. Concentrates on postcolonial context.

GWSS 4403 - Queering Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GWSS 4403/GWSS 5503/GLBT 4403
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This course will give you a solid theoretical foundation in the field of queer studies in addition to explaining its relation to other scholarly traditions, including (but not limited to) feminist theory, GLBT studies, literary studies, psychoanalysis, and postmodernism. Over the course of the semester you will examine the historical forces that birthed queer politics and theory, become conversant in its conceptual basis, interrogate and analyze its various uses and applications, and finally apply it in your own arguments. prereq: Any GWSS or GLBT course

GLBT 4403 - Queering Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GWSS 4403/GWSS 5503/GLBT 4403
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This course will give you a solid theoretical foundation in the field of queer studies in addition to explaining its relation to other scholarly traditions, including (but not limited to) feminist theory, GLBT studies, literary studies, psychoanalysis, and postmodernism. Over the course of the semester you will examine the historical forces that birthed queer politics and theory, become conversant in its conceptual basis, interrogate and analyze its various uses and applications, and finally apply it in your own arguments. prereq: Any GWSS or GLBT course

DNCE 1040 - Modern Dance Partnering Technique

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Technical demands, approaches, and skills needed for partnering in modern dance. prereq: Dance major or instr consent

DNCE 1301 - Tap Technique 1

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Learning fundamental terms, basic rhythm structures, stock steps, and standard time steps.

DNCE 1302 - Tap Technique 2

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Fundamental terms, basic rhythms and syncopation, stock steps, and standard time steps; clarity of sound and rhythm. prereq: 1301 or instr consent

DNCE 1313 - African Based Movement

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Varied movement of African diaspora, primarily but not limited to West African region and continent of Africa. Traditional movement. Movement inspired by Africa, the Caribbean, and African diaspora at large. In-class movement participation, one movement midterm, one two-page paper.

DNCE 1327 - Argentine Tango

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Basic rhythms emphasizing posture, axis, walking, lead/follow techniques, footwork patterns. Students listen to music to identify rhythm, communicate.

DNCE 1331 - Yoga

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Theory/practice of Yoga. Standing postures, forward bends, twists, balancing, seated postures, inversions, back bends, guided relaxation/meditation. Proper alignment, weight placement, body awareness, relaxation, breathing techniques. Midterm paper, movement demonstration final.

DNCE 1335 - T'ai Chi Ch'uan

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring & Summer

Ancient Chinese slow-motion exercise. Helping body/mind to become relaxed/centered. Natural movement patterns, deep breathing, tranquil stress-free mind. Self-defense applications of movements. Non-competitive, non-aggressive.

DNCE 1343 - Urban & Street Dance Forms 1: Introduction

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

We study the origins of Hip Hop dance and how it has evolved to the current incarnations of the form. There is also a focus on Hip Hop culture as a whole and we have many discussions about issues of identity, relation to power, appropriation, and youth culture. The specific forms of movement in this course are toprocking, rocking, breakdancing (breaking), New Jack Swing, and house dance. Some questions to focus on: What is Hip Hop dance? Where does it originate? Who created Hip Hop artistic expressions? What voices/bodies are heard/seen or not heard/not seen in the films assigned?

DNCE 1349 - Contact Improvisation

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Safe, clear introduction to principles of contact improvisation. Rolling point of contact, supporting/being supported, falling/recovering, connecting with center as source/support for movement. Classes include warm-up.

DNCE 1351 - African Diasporic Movement 1

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Dnce 1313/Dnce 1351
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

First of six-course sequence. Introduction to traditional West African dance technique as a foundational base to begin learning technique, body placement, movement, space, time, energy, isolations, patterns, etiquette, community building, group work and presentation.

DNCE 1353 - African Diasporic Movement 3

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Third of six-course sequence. Afro-Brazilian dance, including jumps, turns, floor work, and rhythmicity to develop flexibility, strength, and vocabulary in polycentric movement, moving toward body-sound harmony, illuminating dynamics of coordination, relaxation, breathing, undulation.

DNCE 1354 - African Diasporic Movement 4

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Fourth of six-course sequence. Builds on level 3 by exploring movement from mythology of Afro-Brazilian belief systems orix� and Candombl�. How corporal knowledge and technique fluency through the course sequence support different dance techniques. prereq: 1353 or audition or instr consent

DNCE 3301 - Tap Technique 3

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Tap techniques and creative development through improvisational studies. prereq: 1302 or instr consent

DNCE 3302 - Tap Technique 4

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Tap techniques and rhythm structures. prereq: 3301 or instr consent

DNCE 5110 - Ballet Technique 7

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Continuation of ballet technique. Musicality, performance, stylistic differences. Practical work conducted within context of choreographic/aesthetic development of ballet. prereq: dept consent, audition

DNCE 5120 - Ballet Technique 8

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Continuation of 5110. Musicality, performance, stylistic differences. Practical work conducted within context of choreographic/aesthetic development of ballet. prereq: 5110, dept consent, audition

DNCE 4901 - Capstone Seminar for Dance

Credits:	1.0 -2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Dnce 4901/Th 4901
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Development of senior project, alone or in groups, under guidance of faculty members. prereq: Sr, [Dnce or Th major]

AMST 3113W - Global Minnesota: Diversity in the 21st Century (DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Diverse cultural (racial, ethnic, class) groups in America. Institutions/processes that shape their relations and create domination, resistance, hybridity, nationalism, racism, alliance. Specific content may vary.

AMST 3253W - American Popular Culture and Politics: 1940 to the Present (HIS, CIV, WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring & Summer

Historical analysis of how popular arts represent issues of gender, race, consumerism, and citizenship. How popular artists define boundaries of citizenship and public life: inclusions/exclusions in polity and national identity. How popular arts reinforce/alter political ideologies.

CSCL 3351W - The Body and the Politics of Representation (HIS, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Western representation of the human body, 1500 to present. Body's appearance as a site and sight for production of social and cultural difference (race, ethnicity, class, gender). Visual arts, literature, music, medical treatises, courtesy literature, erotica. (previously 3458W)

CSCL 3425W - Critical Theory and Social Change (AH, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course introduces students to influential thinkers in the field of critical theory, broadly conceived. Critical theory is similar to philosophy because it asks big questions that stretch the boundaries of human knowledge. But it is distinct in its focus on practical change?critical theory advocates for a more just and emancipated human world. Its key techniques are the diagnosis and critique of histories, systems, and ideologies of social power. Critical theory emerged from a group of Marxist intellectuals in the 1920s and 30s who were concerned about the rise of fascism, the staggering inequalities produced by industrial capitalism, the trauma of mass violence, and the numbing standardization of modern life. Since then, the field has expanded to encompass concerns about structural racism, gender inequality, the rise of neoliberalism, the expansion of modern carceral and mental health systems, and the ongoing inequities wrought by histories of slavery, colonization, and imperial conquest. Featured authors may include Sigmund Freud, W. E. B. Du Bois, Georg Simmel, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Frantz Fanon, Herbert Marcuse, Patricia Hill Collins, Malcom X, Jackie Wang, Angela Y. Davis, Sheldon George, Alfredo Carrasquillo, Joshua Javier Guzman, Willy Apollon, Jean Rouch, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Saidiya Hartman, bell hooks, �douard Glissant, Aurora Levins Morales, Michael Rothberg, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Christopher Pexa, Yuichiro Onishi, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Lewis Gordon, and Barbara Christian.

DNCE 3401W - Dance History 1 (GP, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Historiography of dance, 20th century through present. Reconstruction/incorporation of dance practice in context of globalization. Artistic choices as influenced by complex history of performing arts and terrain of body/politics.

DNCE 3402W - Dance History 2 (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

History/theory of dance in varied forms/aspects. From development of ballet through 20th century modern dance. Second half of year-long survey. prereq: 3401W

AAS 3251W - Sociological Perspectives on Race, Class, and Gender (SOCS, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3251W/Afro 3251W/Soc 3251W
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

In the midst of social unrest, it is important for us to understand social inequality. In this course we will analyze the impact of three major forms of inequality in the United States: race, class, and gender. Through taking an intersectional approach at these topics, we will examine the ways these social forces work institutionally, conceptually, and in terms of our everyday realities. We will focus on these inequalities as intertwined and deeply embedded in the history of the country. Along with race, class, and gender we will focus on other axes of inequality including sexuality, citizenship, and dis/ability. We will analyze the meanings and values attached to these social categories, and the ways in which these social constructions help rationalize, justify, and reproduce social inequality.

AFRO 3251W - Sociological Perspectives on Race, Class, and Gender (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3251W/Afro 3251W/Soc 3251W
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Analytical overview of three major forms of inequalities in the United Sates today: race, class, gender. Focus on these inequalities as relatively autonomous from one another and as deeply connected/intertwined with one another. Intersectionality key to critical understanding of these social forces. Social change possibilities.

SOC 3251W - Sociological Perspectives on Race, Class, and Gender (SOCS, DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 3251W/Afro 3251W/Soc 3251W
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

In the midst of social unrest, it is important for us to understand social inequality. In this course we will analyze the impact of three major forms of inequality in the United States: race, class, and gender. Through taking an intersectional approach at these topics, we will examine the ways these social forces work institutionally, conceptually, and in terms of our everyday realities. We will focus on these inequalities as intertwined and deeply embedded in the history of the country. Along with race, class, and gender we will focus on other axes of inequality including sexuality, citizenship, and dis/ability. We will analyze the meanings and values attached to these social categories, and the ways in which these social constructions help rationalize, justify, and reproduce social inequality. prereq: Soc majors/minors must register A-F

CSCL 3350W - Sexuality and Culture (DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CSCL 3350W/GLBT 3456W
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.

GLBT 3456W - Sexuality and Culture (DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CSCL 3350W/GLBT 3456W
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.

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