Courses

This course focuses on the advanced study of principles and procedures of theatrical scenery design, stage construction and theatre technology. It prepares students for careers in professional technical theatre or scenic design for dance and other theatrical...

This course focuses on the advanced study of principles and procedures of theatrical scenery
design, stage construction and theatre technology. It prepares students for careers in
professional technical theatre or scenic design for dance and other...

This course focuses on the various approaches in performing dance. It will introduce students
to the movement vocabulary, techniques in the various traditional African dance forms as
well as emerging world forms. Students will be given the conceptual...

This course examines the position of dance in the development of school curriculum. It
focuses on restructuring music and dance forms in the curriculum and re-examining their
structural elements, style and contextual framework. Key issues will concern the...

 This course focuses on the concept of ‘informed practice’ and other theoretical underpinnings of practising dance. It engages students in a critical examination of how theory informs practice in the dance world. The course explores the...

 
This course focuses on the discussion of the sum total of what the African conceptualises as
dance and how this is packaged as an educational material. The focus will be on the structural
elements of African dance, its aesthetics, philosophies...

 This course explores the fundamental issues connected with knowledge, values and virtues embedded in African dance as a documented history of a people. It focuses on dance movements, gestures and song texts of the various African dances to establish how...

This course considers the conceptual underpinnings of using dance as a tool for knowledge
transmission. It focuses on African definitions of knowledge and how these knowledge
bodies and values are transmitted in the various African cultures. It explores...

This course explores the role of dance in African systems of governance through traditional
leadership. It will focus on the function of dance in ceremonial and socio-political dimensions
of African societies. The course will orient students on the...

This module interrogates dance as a very important part of a people’s socio-cultural life. It employs dance as a window to explore social structures of Ghanaian and African people in relation to the shared traditions of the various communities. Students...