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May 20, 2026
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DANC 4160 - Dance, Health, and Wellness II: Community Dance in Practice
In this course, students collaborate with local community partners to engage in dance-based service-learning projects that support the health and wellbeing of a local community population. This course includes classroom and studio instruction on campus and substantial time off campus (20+ hours during the semester) that may require transportation. During class sessions, students learn movement and choreographic tools that promote the physical health, social connections, and creativity of community participants. Through readings, viewings, class discussions, and movement activities, students investigate, evaluate, and analyze the structure and content of existing local, regional, and national community-based arts programs. By exploring course content, they will gain a broader knowledge of the range of practices, partnerships, and outcomes of community-based art in the United States, and how these projects support community health and wellbeing. Students will work in teams and partner with a local community organization to learn about community health needs and develop lesson plans to implement in existing community dance classes. Through coursework and service-learning, students will develop reflexive teaching practices that support their growth as community-based artists and educators.
Requisites: DANC 2160
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Learning and Doing
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 seminar, 2.0 field experience/internship
Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to describe the elements of a mutually beneficial dance/movement-based service project.
- Students will be able to analyze existing arts-based community health interventions.
- Students will be able to assess community resources and needs in collaboration with a community partner to create dance activities for community settings.
- Students will be able to implement reflexive teaching practices that support their growth as community-based artists and teachers.
- Students will be able to effectively communicate with community participants, team-members and community organizations, using meaningful language and visual representation.
- Students will be able to connect relevant experience in the service-learning project to academic knowledge of dance, health, and wellbeing.
- Students will be able to see and make connections across dance disciplines and perspectives on dance, health and wellness locally and nationally.
- Students will be able to adapt and apply skills, abilities, theories, or methodologies gained in one community-engaged situation to a new community-engaged situation.
- Students will be able to demonstrate a developing sense of self as a learner and build on prior experience to respond to new and challenging community contexts and perspectives on dance, health and wellness.
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