Dance 317: Advanced Writing for Dance – MWF, 8:00-8:50 a.m.
**This course fulfills the Advanced Writing and Oral Communication GE requirement** Co-taught by Shelli Spotts (English) and Marin Roper (Dance).
Unless dancers can write and speak effectively about what it is we do, our best efforts to ‘move’ the world often fall flat. The goal of Dance 317: Advanced Writing for Dance, is to prepare dance majors with specific writing skills needed in your work as artists, educators, scholars and advocates out in the world. This class focuses on similarities between the creative processes used in writing and dancing to help you become more articulate and embodied writers and dancers. Units such as Dance Criticism, Dance Research, Dance Advocacy and Technical Writing for Dance will equip students with the tools to get funded, to get published, to get hired and to create change in the world.
Paired with the new Dance 317: Advanced Writing for Dance course, the Department of Dance is also excited to reinstate the annual “Writers’ Symposium” in Winter 2021. The Writers’ Symposium is a department event that recognizes, celebrates and rewards excellent student writing. The Writers’ Symposium will be directed by Professor Amy Jex.
Questions? Contact marin_roper@byu.edu with questions.