KDB222 World Dance

Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal

Overview

This unit aims to develop your sensitivity, curiosity, and knowledge of cultural diversity and protocols, through participating in dance styles from around the world and learning about their contexts. Through practical classes you will gain an experiential understanding of the dance styles, which will be contextualised through lectures and reflective practice strategies. The new generation of twenty-first century global citizens needs to be agile in the understandings and skills necessary to negotiate cultural difference if they are to contribute to creating peaceful communities. In this unit, participating in dance styles from around the world and learning about their contexts, provides an opportunity for you to develop these attributes.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:

1. Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning world dance styles.
2. Cite and discuss a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary world dance styles, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dance.
3. Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently.
4. Formulate and apply an independent perspective of world dance through reflective practice strategies.
5. Demonstrate respect for cultural and social differences.
6. Operate with initiative, ethical judgement and professionalism.

Content

Learning Approaches

In this unit you will gain a contextual and experiential understanding of various global dance styles. Through the use of reflective practice strategies, including the creation of a reflective journal, you will formulate understandings of the dance styles and their contexts.

Feedback on Learning and Assessment

You will receive formative feedback on your progress in this unit during lectures and practicals throughout the semester.

Assessment

Overview

There are two assessment items for this unit. The first is an essay which discusses a topic related to Indigenous Australian Dance and the second is a reflective journal in digital format.

Unit Grading Scheme

7- point scale

Assessment Tasks

Assessment: Essay

An in-depth discussion of a topic relating to Indigenous Australian dance.

This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.

Assessment: Reflective journal

Reflective journal in electronic format.

This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.

Academic Integrity

Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.

Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.

You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.

Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.

Requirements to Study

Requirements

All students and staff who access campus buildings and facilities are required to complete the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.

Resources

Risk Assessment Statement

For risks associated with using campus buildings or facilities, refer to the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction.

The study in this unit will involve dancing at home and may involve physical training in purpose-built dance studios. Full physical participation in any practice-based class is subject to compliance with safe dance practice. Physical challenges are an inherent part of dance training. The development of essential risk-management skills that minimise potential injury is a high priority with all lecturing staff. All students are taught safe dance principles as life-long learning skills and it is expected that they apply them in this unit. Due to the athletic nature of dance training, the dance discipline provides the necessary duty of care in emergency situations through its first-aid and health and safety officers at all on-campus venues in which you may be required to participate in this unit.

Course Learning Outcomes

KK34 Bachelor of Fine Arts

1. Cite and discuss a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts for creative practice, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
   Relates to: ULO1
2. Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
   Relates to: ULO2
3. Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
   Relates to: ULO3
4. Formulate and apply an independent perspective through reflection and by acting on the informed critique of others.
   Relates to: ULO4
5. Demonstrate respect for cultural and social differences, and work with integrity across creative practice networks.
   Relates to: ULO5
6. Operate with initiative, ethical judgement and professionalism in creative practice, both alone and in groups.
   Relates to: ULO6