Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Upon successful completion students should be able to:

· Generate a greater sense of somatic authority, health, and wellbeing.
· Promote compassion, patience, critical thinking, and tolerance through philosophical discourse.
· Apply principles of self-care and injury prevention to enhance quality of life.

· Participation
· Other assessment to include one of the following:
· Personal practice research and development
· Research paper
· Journal entries
· Written exam to test knowledge of history, philosophy, and/or terminology

· Movement specific to somatic practice or conditioning method being studied
· Philosophical discourse
· Discuss transference not only to dance, but to everyday movement and situations
· Basic anatomical references, images, and visualization
· Learn safe practices in dance and other forms of movement
· Relaxation techniques