Dance In Community: Postgraduate Certificate

DANCE IN COMMUNITY: POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE

EDUCATIONAL AIMS
The programme aims to:
· Produce graduates who are able to be reflective practitioners with a critical
awareness of issues central to community dance practice
· Provide communities with effective dance artists and develop the potential of dance
in community professionals
· Prepare graduates who are responsive to the changing needs of community dance
practice
· Produce graduates who are effective workshop leaders and choreographers within
a variety of community contexts
· Produce graduates who are able to acts as advocates for the role of dance within
the context of community arts.
· Enable students to gain knowledge and understanding of the contexts which have
informed developments within the field of community dance practice.
· Develop students' awareness of the social, cultural and political contexts of
communities and the place of the arts in meeting the needs of these
· Introduce approaches which facilitate self-directed learning
· Develop the mature interests, experiences and abilities of students to enable them
to make a significant contribution to the community
· Develop in students sensitive and co-operative attitudes and creative,
organisational and advocacy skills that are in consonance with the ethos of
community based work
· Prepare and equip students for a multifaceted career as community dance artists

TEACHING, LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES
The teaching and Learning and Assessment methods listed below have been
strategically implemented to meet the Programme Aims and Learning Outcomes. A
range of methods is utilised to ensure you are equipped for the multifaceted career as a
community dance artist. Learning and teaching methods encourage individual and group
responsibility, reflective evaluation and critical thinking. Assessments require the
application of written, oral and practical dance skills.

Programme Length Full time: 10 months
Part time: 20 months
Validated by City University, London Programme Content Compulsory core modules, crucial to the training of community dance artists, are based around issues in community dance practice:
Contemporary technique
Choreography
Choreological Studies
Community Practice
Dance Teaching and Education
You will also undertake an independent investigation in an aspect of community dance.

Electives, which you will study together with students from the Dance Studies Programme, offer you the opportunity to explore specialist areas of interest and to develop your knowledge and understanding of what dance can offer.

If you are a full time student you may take up to 17 x 1.5 hour sessions per week and if part time 9 x 1.5 hour sessions per week. In addition you are expected to attend the One Year Programme Seminar each week.

All students study two contemporary dance styles during their programme. For part time students the 2 years are designed as follows:

Year 1 you will take 2 x contemporary technique classes in one style + 1 technical training support class and choreological studies plus electives.
Year 2 you will take 2 x your second technique style and choreography plus electives. Assessment You will be assessed in each component of study by practical and/or written assignments.