CCOG for PE 186D archive revision 202504
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- Effective Term:
- Fall 2025
- Course Number:
- PE 186D
- Course Title:
- Ballroom Dance I
- Credit Hours:
- 1
- Lecture Hours:
- 0
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 30
Course Description
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of the course students should be able to:
1. Apply the fundamental concepts of partnering, spatial awareness, and rhythm in order to perform the rumba, foxtrot, waltz, cha-cha, tango, and swing in social ballroom dance settings.
2. Perform the elementary steps of the rumba, foxtrot, waltz, cha-cha, tango, and swing in social ballroom dance settings.
3. Utilize learned dance skills to help maintain and/or improve fitness and health.
Aspirational Goals
1. Use and increase spatial awareness, musicality, and coordination in order to build social connections, and help make social choices.
2. Apply learned history, origin, and precise styling of each dance to increase an understanding of Ballroom Dance as an art form and how it fits with other areas of dance.
3. Use developed skills in freestyle dancing to promote creative problem solving.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
Attendance and participation
Creative projects
Practical evaluation (exercise, floor work)
Group or individual choreography
Written exam
Research paper
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
1. Basic skill introduction and/or review
2. new pattern presentation
3. practice with rotation of partners
4. develop both leading and following skills
5. freestyle dancing and practice time