CCOG for PE 186T Winter 2025
- Course Number:
- PE 186T
- Course Title:
- Hip Hop III
- Credit Hours:
- 1
- Lecture Hours:
- 0
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 30
Course Description
Develops Hip Hop dance skills at an advanced level with a focus on challenging choreography and performance. Emphasizes the development of correct technique and the strength needed to perform more advanced moves. Hip Hop I and Hip Hop II or previous experience highly recommended. Audit available.
Addendum to Course Description
Students will provide their own workout attire
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of this course students should be able to:
- Describe Hip Hop history and how Hip Hop continues to shape world culture.
- Execute challenging and original freestyle dance using prior knowledge of Hip Hop.
- Continue to develop peer leadership skills through group choreography.
- Develop skills needed to plan shows and performances.
Course Activities and Design
- Attendance and participation
- Creative projects
- Group or individual choreography
- Practical evaluation (exercise, floor work)
- Group or individual choreography
- Written exam
- Research paper
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
- Warm-up
- Isolations
- Strengthening exercises and floor work prep
- Locking or other upper body work
- Skill development
- Longer phrases and/or choreography
- Improvisation
- Cool down/stretch
- Movements:
- axial and locomotor
- ability to subdivide pulse
- use accent and syncopated rhythms
- isolations and qualities of movement