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DANC 632 (ELECTIVE COURSES) : Dance and Technology

 Coursework in dance and technology offers the student opportunities to explore dance creation, performance, research, documentation, practice, and analysis through existing and emerging practices in film, animation, interactive computing, motion capture...

DANC 626 (ELECTIVE COURSES) : Dance Notation and Documentation

This course focuses on the different approaches of notating and documenting dance. It will employ advanced form of Labanotation to notate parts of the dancing body. Special emphasis will be on the exploration of symbolic movements and gestures in Ghanaian/...

DANC 625 (ELECTIVE COURSES) : Dance Videography

Videography will serve as an introduction to film/video. The history of film/video will be introduced, including pre motion picture devices and zoetrope. Students will also learn the fundamentals of camcorder and video editing equipment, while exploring...

DANC 624 (ELECTIVE COURSES) : Dance and the Creative Industry

 The course will examine the connection of dance as a viable profession and commodity to the new and emerging Creative Industry in Ghana. It will address issues of training, product development, packaging and touring. The course will be linked to the...

DANC 623 (ELECTIVE COURSES) : Inter-relationship between Music and Dance

 
This course focuses on the interdependency between music and dance in African cultures. It
explores the artistic collaboration between the body and music in a holistic form. Emphasis
will be on the uniqueness of this interrelation in that the two...

DANC 622 (ELECTIVE COURSES) : Dance and Tourism

This course prepares students for entry into the dance profession either as dance artists or
coordinators of dance and related art forms in the tourism sector. It develops skills,
knowledge and understanding of a range of dance techniques and styles,...

DANC 621 (ELECTIVE COURSES) : Dance and Wellness

 As part of this programme, students will be assigned to professional physiotherapists for an advanced study of the therapeutic benefits of dance through stress and pain management, body massage and isometrics that help to increase the production and...

DANC 619 (ELECTIVE COURSES) : Dance and the Related Arts

This course focuses on the discussion of dance and its relation with music, dramatic
enactment, costume, props, visual arts, language and symbolism. It examines dance as a
holistic art form whose scope extends beyond the borders of movement and space...

DANC 618 (CHOREOGRAPHY/PERFORMANCE (MFA)) : Dance Theatre

This course focuses on advanced methods, procedures, philosophy and materials required in
Dance Theatre as a form. It aims at equipping students with the skills required for applying
the appropriate tools and materials in creating and transforming dance...

DANC 617 (ELECTIVE COURSES) : Dance and Nationalism

 This module examines how dance is used in constructing national identity. It will draw on case studies of postcolonial nations and their national dance companies. The main issues to be examined include politics of representation and cultural identity....

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