Course Detail
Units:
3.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Prerequisites: Complete a class that fulfills a WR2 OR AP Language/Comp score of 4 or higher OR AP Comp/Lit score of 4 or higher OR complete an (Interstate Passport OR Associates Degree OR Bachelors Degree).
Requirement Designation:
Upper Division Communication/Writing
Description
This course is the first semester of a two-semester sequence, designed to examine human movement as a distinguishing identifier of culture throughout history. By looking at select cultural dance forms in a non-hierarchical sequence, the course examines how dance and ritual have been used for political resistance, storytelling, historical investigation, and shaping and maintaining cultural identity in the past and present.