Jazz Dance: from the Street to the Stage

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Critically analyze claims, arguments, artifacts, or information related to jazz dance.
• Construct coherent, evidence-based arguments.
• Describe how political, social, and cultural systems have affected the authorship and transmission of jazz dance.
• Demonstrate increased physical understanding of jazz dance practice, including rhythmic specificity, relationship to gravity, and personal artistic expression within a movement style.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Attendance & Participation	30 points
Assessments & Reflections	20 points
Midterm Demonstration & Reflection	10 points
Movement Journal Entries	10 points
Article Presentation Project	10 points
Final Group Choreography & Research Project	20 points

Grading Scale

Percentage	Letter Grade
94-100	A
90-93	A-
87-89	B+
83-86	B
80-82	B-
77-79	C+
73-76	C
70-72	C-
67-69	D+
63-66	D
60-62	D-
Below 60	F

Attendance/Participation:

Attendance and full participation are expected at each class meeting. The School of Dance requires an 80% participation rate to receive credit for the course.

Students are allowed two excused absences; after that, the course grade is lowered by one-third of a letter grade for each additional absence.

Students who accrue more than five absences automatically fail the course.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

Selected readings from Rooted Jazz Dance: Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century.