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Explores what dance is, how we study it, and what dance can do in society. Analyzes critical approaches in the field of dance studies and key issues raised by dance. Such analysis enables us to situate specific dance examples and the creation and interpretation of dance in relation to culture in a global context. Offers students an opportunity to understand dance as a social structure and how dance and culture develop out of shared aesthetics as well as political principles. This allows analysis of agency in dance and choreography and addresses their role toward the creation of a socially just, environmentally conscious, and decolonized society. Taught in the studio and values and approaches the moved and choreographed the same as the written and spoken.