DANCE 117A
Theories and Methods in Dance Composition III: Locations
Grades
3.87
Average grade awarded in DANCE 117A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
90%
of the 83 letter grades
D, F or W
1.2%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 83 grades over 5 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 5 terms ran 3.66 to 4.00.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 7 · 8.4%
- A 64 · 77.1%
- A- 4 · 4.8%
- B+ 6 · 7.2%
- C- 1 · 1.2%
- D 1 · 1.2%
Percentages are of the 83 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Winter 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CARLSON, ANN M reviews ↗ | 3.85 | 3.84 | 49 | 3 | 86% | - | not teaching it |
| ROUSSEVE, DAVID JOHN reviews ↗ | 3.90 | 3.91 | 34 | 2 | 97% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
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Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
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What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 2 courses long before DANCE 117A. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for DANCE 117A in Winter 2027 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for DANCE 67A, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Winters
Ran in 3 of the last 4 Winters.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
Seminar, two hours; studio, two hours; outside study, eight hours. Enforced requisites: courses 16, 67A, 67B. Examination of how location of dancing impacts its meaning. How does occasion of dance, concert, festival, ritual, or celebration influence experience of it? What are factors that need to be considered when locating dance in one particular place? Answers to these questions in relation to broad range of artistic approaches, acknowledging that dance-making occurs distinctively in different cultural contexts and different historical moments. Examination of range of locations for dances, including proscenium stages, theaters in round, parks, sidewalks, temples, amphitheaters, village squares, and other site-specific locations that endow dance with specific significance and how various artists have worked with place in construction of new dances. Use of these analyses to assist in creative process for making new dances. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2027
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