This is a self-directed, cumulative course for the Dance Major - Performance Art. The student will choreograph and produce an original dance piece for public performance. This interdisciplinary, integrated project may enhance employability and augment artistic entrepreneurship.
Exploration of compositional movement techniques. Improvisation and choreographic structures are presented for student study. The course culminates with a studio demonstration or theatre performance.
Instruction and practice in the Feldenkrais Method to address physical habits, movement adaptability, and specific performance skills for dance and related movement-based performance styles. Processes which enhance human expression through refinement of motor learning will be explored. CCSF GE Area G2 and CSU GE Area E2.
Focus on conditioning techniques that relate to the dance idiom. Emphasis on basic Pilates principals that build abdominal and back strength. Exercises include body alignment, flexibility techniques, floor barre, weight training and stability exercises.
An overview of dance history with an emphasis on Western dance forms, American concert dance, and understanding dance practice and performance as a lineage. Focus is centered on the cultural origins and aesthetics of ballet, modern dance, jazz, tap, some social dance forms, and the emergence and influences of contemporary forms.
Description and analysis of ultrasound physics as applied to sound waves, transducers, two-dimensional
images, Doppler, hemodynamic principles, system functions, ultrasound artifacts
and biosafety concerns.
Advanced complex cardiac rhythms including heart blocks, bundle branch blocks, and accessory pathways. Includes cardiac pharmacology, pacemaker technology, exercise treadmill exams, and stress echo indications: procedures and analysis.
Develop technical imaging skills to perform echocardiograms and manipulate ultrasound system instrumentation. Identify cardiac structures and locations of standardized measurements. Complete an electrocardiogram (ECG) and assess rhythm strips and 12 lead electrocardiograms.
Cardiac anatomy and the cardiac electrical conduction system. Electrocardiogram (ECG) identification and measurements, action potential curve, basic cardiac dysrhythmia, myocardial ischemia and infarction patterns. Interpretation techniques of 12 lead ECGs, long term ECG recording and exercise stress testing protocols, procedures, and analysis.
Development and improvement upon the basic skills and common techniques used in the baking and pastry industry. Topics include meringues, petit fours and miniatures, mousses and creams, frozen desserts, chocolate and confections, fancy and display cakes, yeast-raised products using preferments, baker's math, ingredient functionality, troubleshooting.