Telitha E. Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities 275 DANC 3580 - Intermediate/Advanced Tap Dance Credits: (l) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] even years Intermediate/Advanced training in tap dance skills and techniques. Prerequisite: Lower Division Tap Dance (DANC 1580) and/or instructor approval. May be repeated for up to 3 credit hours, but use toward Major/Minor must be approved by program advisor. DANC 3640 - Teaching Creative Dance in the Elementary School Credits: (2) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] Techniques for teaching creative dance and basic dance forms. Suggested for Elementary Education majors. DANC 3860 - Field Experience Credits: (l) A course designed to provide opportunities for students to gain practical experience in the field by assisting in the activities of community agencies, schools, and Weber State. Prerequisite: DANC 3320 for those who plan to teach in a middle or secondary school or DANC 3640 for those who plan to teach in an elementary school. May be repeated for up to 4 credit hours, but use toward Major/Minor must be approved by program advisor. DANC 3910 - Moving Company: Rehearsal & Development Credits: (2) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] The Moving Company is designed to give students the opportunity to learn about the various aspects of creating, rehearsing, and implementing performances off-campus and to reach the community with our dance program. The commitment is for both fall (rehearsal - 3910) and spring (performance - DANC 3911) semesters. This segment deals with preparation and rehearsal. May be repeated 3 times up to 8 credit hours, but use toward Major/Minor must be approved by program advisor. DANC 3911 - Moving Company: Performance Credits: (2) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] The Moving Company is designed to give students the opportunity to learn about the various aspects of creating, rehearsing, and implementing performances off-campus and to reach the community with our dance program. The commitment is for both fall (rehearsal - DANC 3910) and spring (performance - 3911) semesters. This segment deals with implementation and performance. Prerequisite: DANC 3910. May be repeated 3 times up to 8 credit hours, but use toward Major/Minor must be approved by program advisor. DANC 4250 - Alignment and Conditioning for Dance/Pilates Credits: (2) Typically taught: Spring [Full Sem] even years Strength and alignment for dancers, using Pilates mat exercises and Reformer. The class addresses areas of strength essential for dancers, focuses on breathing techniques integral to the exercises, and uses the exercises as a means to better understand and improve alignment. The course also addresses how strength and alignment facilitate ease and efficiency of movement. Co-Requisite: DANC 2250. May be repeated once up to 4 credit hours, but use toward Major/ Minor must be approved by program advisor. DANC 4610 - Dance and Digital Technology Credits: (2) Typically taught: Spring [Full Sem] even years This course will provide students with an opportunity to explore the integration of dance and technology, specifically the use of the digital video medium and the use of the internet for creative and professional distribution. DANC 4610 will introduce students to dance-videography, video editing, and dissemination of work through media such as the DVD format, You Tube, Vimeo and the creation/maintenance of on-line portfolios. May be repeated for credit, but use toward Major/Minor must be approved by program advisor. DANC 4620 - Dance and Digital Technology Seminar Credits: (l) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] This seminar will provide students with individual and collaborative study and research in the field of dance and the digital video medium. The course will cover artistic and technical forms, including, but not limited to capturing dance on the digital/video medium, choreographic processes through non-linear digital editing, audio/visual editing for dance, lighting, dance theory and criticism in the context of dance in the digital age. Prerequisite: DANC 2610. May be repeated once up to 2 credit hours, but use toward Major/ Minor must be approved by program advisor. DANC 4700 - Creative Synthesis in Dance Credits: (2) Project oriented experience intended to coordinate student work. It will serve as guide in the synthesis of philosophy, experience, and understanding of dance as an art form and/ or dance as education. This capstone course will include a portfolio and have an artistic or scholarly outcome. Prerequisite: for BA in Dance: DANC 2610, DANC 3520 and senior dance major standing. Prerequisite: for BA/BS in Dance Education: DANC 2610, DANC 3860 and senior dance major standing. DANC 4800 - Individual Study Credits: (1-4) Individual work or work in small groups by arrangements in special topics not included in the announced course offerings. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor. In individual cases, this Weber State University 2015-2016 Catalog