Transfers ToCSUCSU GE Area C1DescriptionStudents will examine dance for its historical, religious, social, and artistic functions. Students will attain a historical perspective of dance from ritual to contemporary theatrical dance forms. Students will examine the progression of dance throughout western society in the forms of court dance, ballet, modern dance, musical theater, dance theater, tap, jazz and ballroom dance. Students will view live dances as well as in video form throughout the course. Students will broach the topics of dance as it relates to religion, history, sociology, aesthetics, and to the cultures where the forms are manifest. 