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Course Syllabus

DANC 1680 Hip-Hop I

  • Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
  • Department: Dance
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1; Lecture: 1; Lab: 1
  • Repeatable: Yes.
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Corequisites: None
  • Semesters Offered: TBA
  • Semester Approved: Fall 2022
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Spring 2028
  • End Semester: Summer 2028
  • Optimum Class Size: 15
  • Maximum Class Size: 25

Course Description

This course will introduce students to hip-hop styles, including popping, locking, and breaking. Hip-Hop as a cultural movement will be discussed. This course is repeatable for credit.

Justification

Hip-hop is quickly becoming a major field of study in many university dance programs. It's an accessible high-energy dance technique with several styles, including popping, locking, and breaking. By offering hip-hop classes at Snow College, we continue to provide our students with an equitable and diverse dance education while making our dance training accessible to students of all backgrounds and skill levels.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will acquire beginning-level hip-hop technique skills.
  2. Students will develop critical thinking skills through observation and analysis of personal movement habits while displaying increased ability in areas of flexibility, strength, musicality, coordination, proprioception and endurance.
  3. Students will become familiar with the history of hip-hop and its contribution to the World culture.
  4. Students will analyze the relevance/application of hip-hop technique to a dance concert performance.

Course Content

Each class will consist of three essential components: warm-up, hip-hop progressions and combinations, and cool down. Hip-hop exercises emphasize strength, balance, core work, syncopated rhythms, and musicality. Students will explore various hip-hop choreographers and dancers in preparation for their Final. Finally, through observation and written critiques, students will further refine their critical thinking skills and further appreciate the art of dance.This class welcomes movers of all abilities, backgrounds, and body types.