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  • DN 252: Contemporary Issues in Dance

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    This course focuses on current dance works and some of the issues that inform contemporary dance practices. Discussions include the ways in which choreographers, performers, and societies confront matters of political climate, cultural diversity, entertainment, globalization, and the politicized human body in dance. Open to first-year students. [W2] C. Dilley.
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  • DN 265: Teaching through the Arts

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    This course provides students an opportunity to explore teaching in and through the arts. The class addresses education theory and policy, practical aspects of using the arts as teaching practice, and considers career options. Class sessions include large and small group work, participatory experiences, lectures, group discussions, and student-led activities and presentations. Through a thirty-hour field placement in community schools, students experience the challenges and delights of using the arts in teaching. Enrollment limited to 18. Staff.
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  • DN 269: Movement for Actors

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    A practical study of movement for actors. Making use of the principles of Laban Movement Analysis and the techniques of contact improvisation, students explore and develop ways to create character through movement in theatrical performance. Work with masks and character-related gesture encourages students to expand their movement vocabularies. The goal of the course is to test and experience a variety of methods through which the actor can achieve full physical expressiveness on stage. Enrollment limited to 16. Instructor permission is required. Staff.
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  • DN 290: Aesthetics and Dance

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    This course approaches issues of aesthetic theory in terms of dance and human performance. Using some of the pivotal texts that have advanced aesthetic understanding through time, students draw dance into the ongoing dialogue of the arts and their cultural significance, investigating the experience of art, the making of meaning, aesthetic perception, and the curse of beauty. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 12. [W2] C. Dilley.
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  • DN 337: Atelier

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    The atelier offers composers, performers, choreographers, and other artists the opportunity to collaborate using new technologies. Meeting in the Bates Computer Music Studio, students work together with interactive music and video software to create performances. Work in progress is shown weekly, then performed in public on and off campus. Recommended background for music majors: Music 222 and either 235 or 237. Enrollment limited to 16. Instructor permission is required. W. Matthews.
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  • DN 352: The Cultural Performative Body

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    Is gender restricted by certain cultural aesthetics How much control does our sociocultural environment have over our normative bodies We all perform in some way or another. Whether it is interviewing for a job, teaching, or going on a date, our bodies prepare for performance. This course takes an in-depth look at female and male bodies in dance to further inquire how and why gender is so integral to our understanding of society. Students learn how to observe movement, approach gender concepts, and develop critical thinking skills. Recommended background: one of the following: African American Studies/Dance 252, Dance 250, Dance/Philosophy 290, Philosophy 226, 262, 274, or any women and gender studies course. Staff.
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  • DN ED S29A: Tour,Teach,Perform I

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    This course uses the diverse collective skills of the students in the class as base material for the creation of a theater/dance piece that tours to elementary schools. The first two weeks are spent working intensively with a guest artist to create the performance piece. The remaining weeks are spent touring that piece, along with age-appropriate movement workshops, to elementary schools throughout the region. Open to performers and would-be performers of all kinds. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 20. Normally offered every year. Staff.
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  • DN ED S29B: Tour,Teach,Perform II

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    Continued study of the integration of dance and other arts for the purpose of producing a performance piece for elementary school children. Students participate in all aspects of creating the performance, encompassing a wide variety of topics and movement-based performance styles, and developing a creative movement workshop to be taught in the classrooms. Open to performers and would-be performers of all kinds. Prerequisite(s): Dance s29A. Enrollment limited to 6. Normally offered every year. Staff.
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  • DN ED S29C: Tour,Teach,Perform III

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    Further study of the integration of dance and other arts for the purpose of producing a performance piece for elementary school children. Students participate in all aspects of creating the performance, encompassing a wide variety of topics and movement-based performance styles, and developing a creative movement workshop to be taught in the classrooms. Open to performers and would-be performers of all kinds. Prerequisite(s): Dance s29B. Enrollment limited to 4. Normally offered every year. Staff.
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  • EC 229: Economics of Greater China

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    The Chinese are among the world's leading experimentalists in economics. The twentieth-century economic history of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the overseas Chinese diaspora spans the entire gamut of economic regimes from virtually unrestricted competition to rigid state management. This course surveys economic development in Greater China with emphasis on understanding how institutions and institutional change affect economic and social development. Prerequisite(s): Economics 101 or 103. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 45. [W2] M. Maurer-Fazio.
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