SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

EDUCATION

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SPECIAL TOPICS: DANCE EDUCATION

Spring Semester, 1991

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Instructor: Ruth Emerson

(Jan. 7 - April 5)

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Phone:

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294-5522

Monday, 4:30 - 8:20

Location: MPX 7540 (Gym)

PREREQUISITES

Educ. 401/402 or equivalent, or permission of instructor recommended:

Educ. 495, Special Topics: Teaching Creative Dance (K-7). Dance

experience, though welcome, is not essential.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course, a continuation of Educ. 495, Teaching Creative Dance

(K-7), works both experientially and theoretically on movement

principles of Body, Effort, Space, Shape, and Relationship, the what,

how, where, and with whom of dance and movement. Dance will be

considered from fine arts and physical education perspectives, and

ideas will be developed for integration in fine arts areas. Arts in

education will be connected to the work of practising artists. Topics

and projects will include choreography and improvisation, history

reading, dance lesson and unit plans, and collaborative teaching in the

arts.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

class attendance and participation

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35%

in-class work

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30%

final written project

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35%

REQUIRED TEXT

A xerox packet by Anne Gilbert, to be purchased at the first class.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Ruth Emerson has a Master of Arts in Dance from the University of

Illinois, and she is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst. In recent

years, she has been teaching dance, choreographing, developing

school arts programs, and directing her

own dance company. She is

presently an adjunct professor in

the Faculty of Education, and a

teacher at the Burnaby Arts Centre.