Learning outcome

After successfully completing the course, the candidate will have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence.

Knowledge

The candidate has knowledge of:

• The role of dance in the curricula of primary and secondary education (LK06)
• Norwegian and foreign dance traditions
• Movement factors / dynamics: power, space, time and flow
• Creativity
• Choreography
• Dance as representing global, national and local cultural expressions
• Norwegian and European dance history
  

Skills

The candidate can:

• Demonstrate basic skills in dance forms such as Norwegian and foreign folk dancing, ballroom dancing, jazz dance and rhythm play
• Demonstrate and teach creative dance as a method
• Plan, implement and evaluate dance for children in different year levels
• Use choreography as a tool for dance
• Set up a dance performance - from idea to finished product
  

General competence

The candidate has:

• Expertise to plan, implement and evaluate dance classes for children and youth in different year levels
  

Course Description

3 ECTS, 1st year of study / one-year study program

The target area includes 3 dimensions: creating, practising and understanding dance. This year of study focuses mainly on teaching in the primary and lower secondary schools.

• Rhythm and play activities
• Creative dance
• Norwegian and international folk dancing
• Dance as a form of training

7 ECTS, 2^nd year of study

Dance in the second year of study will be a further development of the studies during the first year, i.e. creating, practising and understanding dance. The work with dance during this year of study will focus mainly on the 8th to 10th grades and upper secondary schools.

• Jazz dance
• Different dance types for youth culture
• Folk dance
• Ballroom dancing
• Dance as a form of exercise
• Didactic aspects of dance
• Dance project

Teaching and Learning Methods

3 ECTS, 1^st year of study / one-year study program

The target area dance will be organised into lectures and practical work, with the main focus on the latter. The work will be carried out individually and in groups. Students will gain experience in practical methodological dance arrangements, which will be documented in writing.

7 ECTS, 2nd year of study

The teaching and learning methods will include dance, self-training, lectures, group work, self-study and dance performances.

Practical work involving dance will be given priority in the teaching.

Over the course of the year, the students will complete a project in groups. This will be concluded with a dance performance, the choreography and presentation of which will be the responsibility of the groups. A log must be submitted once the project has been completed.

Assessment Methods

3 ECTS, 1st year of study / one-year study program

Obligatory work must be assessed as passed in the first year of study in order for the student to sit the final examination in the second year. Requirements for the first year of study:

• Minimum of 80 % participation
• Practical – methodological work in dance including a written report; pass/fail.

Each course unit must receive a passing grade in order for the major course unit to receive a passing grade.

Please refer to Telemark University College’s examination regulations for further information.

7 ECTS, 2nd year of study

The students must have received a passing mark for obligatory work before they will be permitted to take the final examination:

• Minimum of 80% participation
• Project work/dance performance in groups including a log
• Written assignments, individually or in groups

Final examination

The final examination consists of one practical component and one oral component:

• Individual practical methodological examination in dance, counts for 80% of the grade.
• Oral examination in the syllabus literature related to the practical/methodological examination, counts for 20%.

Organisation

• The students will receive the assignment questions 2 days before the first day of the examination.
• The students will carry out a 20-minute practical-methodological arrangement for fellow students, and in addition will be given a 10-minute oral examination based on the syllabus literature.

A final grade is entered on the diploma, graded from A to F, where A is the best and E the lowest passing grade. Each course unit must receive a passing grade in order for the student to receive a passing grade for the major course unit.

Please refer to Telemark University College’s examination regulations for further information.

Minor adjustments may occur during the academic year, subject to the decision of the Dean