Dance Scholarship, pro-seminar 2

Subject guarantor:

Dorota GREMLICOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Dorota GREMLICOVÁ, Helena KAZÁROVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

This course is to provide students with a basic bearing in dance research, introduce research institutions and their collections, prepare them for their own work. The course introduces preparations of the course paper for the exam before the deans commission. This course is linked to the Dance Research Seminar 1.

Mode of study:

Classes, discussion, text analyses, written work, excursions.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

No requirements. A good bearing in dance issues is requested.

Recommended optional programme components:

No elective requirements.

Course contents:

Work in the second semester focuses on dance source issues, heuristics, recognition of the types of dance sources in Czech collections and working with them. In the course students work on their own theory paper which they present at the exam before the dean's committee at the end of the first year of study. The designe of that work is set upon one of the sources (or limited colleciton of mutually related sources) and interpretation. In the exam before the dean's committee, students present it, in principle, in a PowerPoint presentation along with submitting the relative text in printed form.

Recommended or required reading:

Petermann, Kurt: Tanzbibliographie, 1-6, 1966-1987.

Warner, M.J.: Notation Scores Catalogue, New York 1984.

Towers, D.: Dance, Film and Video Guide, Pennington 1991.

Belknap, S. Y. ed. A Guide to Dance Periodicals, Gainsville 1959-63.

Chapman, J. A. ed.: Dance Current Awarness Bulletin, Guildford 1983 (pokračuje do současnosti).

Overby, L. Y.; Humphrey, J. H. eds.: Dance Current Selected research, Vol. 1,2, New York 1989, 1990.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Classes

Assessment methods and criteria:

Credit is awarded based on:

class participation

completion of assignments

work on a text study for testing before the dean's committee.

During the semester independent reading, competion of course assignments, consistent work on the written study are required. The overall grading is comprised of these items.

Conditions for successfull completion of this course: class participation, study of the literature and other resources, management of the written study in the content, formality, language and methodology aspects.

Course web page:

Note:

none

Schedule for winter semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Obor Taneční věda (Bc) (next compulsory subject)