Dance 1000- Introduction to Dance

  • True Blue Core Knowledge Domain: Creativity and Cultural Expression (9 hours) 

    • For all catalogs 2024-2025 and beyond, this course can be used to satisfy 3 hours of the True Blue Core curriculum requirement for Discovery in Fine Arts/Humanities in CCE. If you have already fulfilled the Discovery requirement for CCE, this course can be used in the Explorations in CCE category. To learn more about TBC requirements: https://w1.mtsu.edu/truebluecore/core.php 
    • For all catalogs prior to 2024-2025, this course can be used to satisfy 3 hours of the general education curriculum requirement for Humanities/Fine Arts. To learn more about general education requirements for catalogs prior to 2024-2025: https://w1.mtsu.edu/gen_ed/requirements.php 
    • The TBC outcome for Discovery in Fine Arts/Humanities (CCE): Students demonstrate intercultural understanding by building knowledge, self-awareness, and conceptions of global and intercultural perspectives, values, systems, and attitudes. 

Description:

This course is an overview of dance as a wide-ranging art form and examines its role and impact in world cultures. A comprehensive study of the significant forms, major contributors, concepts, and terminologies of dance will provide the fundamental skills needed to interpret the historical, social, political and narrative content communicated by dance.

See the sample syllabus!

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Director of the True Blue Core
Susan Myers-Shirk, Ph.D.
Professor of History

Assistant Director
Dr. Christina Cobb
Associate Professor, University Studies

Administrative Coordinator
Abby Arnold

Graduate Assistant
Molly Walters

Contact Information
core@mtsu.edu
615-898-5624


Institutional Memberships

  • Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U)
  • Association for General & Liberal Studies (AGLS)

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