DNCE 350 - Learning Through the Moving Arts
DNCE 350 - Learning Through the Moving Arts
Purpose: to help other instructors teaching the same course
Common Course ID: DANCE 350 - Learning Through the Moving Arts
CSU Instructor Open Textbook Adoption Portrait
Abstract: This open textbook is being utilized in a Dance Studies course for undergraduate or graduate students by Cherie Hill at CSU San Marcos. The open textbook provides required and suggested readings and videos to further student’s knowledge on dance pedagogy, dance education theories, and equity in dance. The main motivation to adopt an open textbook was to provide increased access and course affordability for all enrolled students. Most students access the open educational resources in their Library Reserves list available through the library.
Course Title and Number:
DNCE 350 - Learning Through the Moving Arts
Brief Description of course highlights: DNCE 350 develops artistic awareness by learning about dance and media art through practice and theory and investigates the impact of these art forms as applications for arts integration and creative instruction for K-8 students through perceptual practices, choreographic studies, curricular development, and written responses. Satisfies GE area: CC.
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Student population: Common majors are Liberal Studies students who are studying to enter the teaching credential program and teach in K-12 schools and Dance Studies minors.
Learning or student outcomes: Upon completing this course, students will be able to:
- Deconstruct, analyze, explain, and discuss dance & movement using specific terminology.
- Develop dance teaching studies and creative projects for grades K-8 using a variety of stimuli and media.
- Compare, contrast, and discuss pedagogy theories and how they relate to dance, media instruction, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Relate main ideas and content to lived experiences.
- Analyze and discuss how dances from various cultures, societies, historical periods, or communities impact learning and creative practices.
Syllabus and/or Sample assignment from the course or the adoption [optional]: To illustrates how the open textbook is used in the course.
Instructor Name: Cherie Hill
California State University, San Marcos
Assistant Professor in Dance Studies 
Please provide a link to your university page - https://www.csusm.edu/sofa/dance-studies/faculty/chill.html
Please describe the courses you teach.
I teach courses in lecture, theory, and practice.
Describe your teaching philosophy and any research interests related to your discipline or teaching.
As an educator and an equity advocate, I continue to seek ways that my research, service, and teaching interests can support an equitable and inclusive environment. As a faculty member in the Dance Studies program, my goal is to utilize my experience in multiple dance forms, choreography, improvisation, cultural research, and dance pedagogy to build connections between dance, other subjects, and life experiences. In addition, I aim to help students discover and refine their creative voice and cultivate spaces that embrace diversity and progress equity. My approach to teaching is holistic and geared toward student success.
OER/Low Cost Adoption Process
Provide an explanation or what motivated you to use this textbook or OER/Low Cost option. Many of our first-generation college students have responsibilities outside of higher education. As a former first-generation college student, I directly relate to the hardship that purchasing high-cost textbooks and class materials can bring to students and their families. When I heard about the CALM program, I immediately decided to do what I could to ensure my course did not require high material costs.
How did you find and select the open textbook for this course? I consulted with librarians, browsed OER sites, read book reviews, utilized resources from my own studies and research, and evaluated resources.
Sharing Best Practices: I created a list within Library Reserves for my course. Doing this ahead of time allowed me to communicate easily with the librarians so that the course materials could be ready for the beginning of the semester.
Describe any challenges you experienced, and lessons learned. Staying in communication with the library is helpful, because there are some journals and textbooks that needed to be purchased by the library.
Textbook or OER/Low cost Title:
Brief Description: The selected course materials cover a range of topics related to the body and brain, dance teaching in various genres, media arts, multicultural arts, and education theories. The course reading and viewing list includes textbooks, articles, films, and podcasts.
Please provide a link to the resource
Arts Integration: Teaching Subject Matter Through the Arts in Multicultural Settings / Goldberg, Merryl (pages 192-202)
Body, Movement, Language: AI Sketches with Bill T. Jones
CHANEL Podcast: KENNEDY YANKO & HONEY DIJON
Dance As Therapy: Natalia Duong at TEDxStanford
Dance pedagogy for a diverse world: culturally relevant teaching in theory, research and practice / Nyama McCarthyBrown; foreword by Takiyah Nur Amin (pages 13-21)
Dance pedagogy for a diverse world: culturally relevant teaching in theory, research and practice / Nyama McCarthyBrown; foreword by Takiyah Nur Amin (chapter 2)
Developing and Sustaining an Inclusive Dance Program: Strategic Tools and Methods / Morris, Merry Lynn; Baldeon, Marion; Scheuneman, Dwayne
Empowering Students through Creative Resistance: Art-based Critical Pedagogy in the Immigrant Experience - Diálogo (Chicago, Ill.)
"Janet Jackson hired her as a backup dancer. Instagram made her a star" by Sarah L. Kaufman
Teaching Hip Hop and Street Dance with Kim Elliott
Teaching (New) Media Art/ Pam Stephens
"The Misunderstood Role of the Arts in Human Development "by Eisner, Elliot W.
TikTok is more than just a frivolous app for lip-synching and dancing
Authors: (listed for each resource above)
Student access: Students access their course readings and videos online and through Library Reserves (Leganto) available in Canvas.
Provide the cost savings from that of a traditional textbook. Average $48
License: Materials are available for free online from the internet or available through Library Reserves.