COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MOVEMENT SCIENCE I

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TOM 1005 MOVEMENT SCIENCE I COMPULSORY 2 2 0 4

Offered By

Performance Arts

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SIBEL ERDENK

Offered to

Performance Arts

Course Objective

This course aims to improve the pysical qualifications needed like good condition, flexibility and to increase pysical awareness and to teach how to use the body for non-verbal communication.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students who succesfully complete this course should be able to: increase the physical ability and have the sufficient technic and theoric knowledge.
2   Students who succesfully complete this course should be able to: be aware of their physical, and use their bodies for non-verbal communication
3   Students who succesfully complete this course should be able to: do creative and original projects through movement
4   Students who succesfully complete this course should be able to: discover how to use their bodies for expressing theirselves and accordingly build up skills.
5   Students who succesfully complete this course should be able to: do artistic critics using required criteria after presentations,
6   Students who succesfully complete this course should be able to: effective in the group movement workings and keep the `ensemble energy2
7   Students who succesfully complete this course should be able to: create original ideas in presentation, reshape them with the lesson and to prepare presentations with the effective design units.
8   Students who succesfully complete this course should be able to: have information about movement workshops, different and contemporary methods.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Conditions exercises, streching ve non-verbal communication exercises.
2 Conditions exercises, streching ve non-verbal communication exercises.
3 Physical awareness exercises
4 Physical awareness exercises
5 Movement theory and practices.
6 Movement theory and practices.
7 The evaluation of the movement theory and practices.
8 Practice on the pysical expression possibilities through a specific issue.
9 Practice on the pysical expression possibilities through a specific issue.
10 Practice on the pysical expression possibilities through a specific issue.
11 Evaluation of the practices on the physical possibilities through a specific issue.
12 Revision of technical information in term.
13 Revision of technical information in term.
14 Final evaluation.

Recomended or Required Reading

Text Book(s)/Required Readings:

Rudolf Laban- The Mastery of Movement, Northcote House, United Kingdom 1992
Irmgard Bartinieff-Dori Levis-Body Movement,Gordon and Brech Publisher,U.S.A. 1993
Moshe Feldenkrais-Awareness Through Movement, HarperOne, 1991
Mabel Todd-The Thinking Body, Dance Books Ltd.,London,1997
Additional Sources:
Alexander Technique- Chris Stevens, United Kingdom,1995
Richard Magill-Motor Learning Concepts&Applications, McGraw-Hill Pub, U.S.A.,1998
Complementary Materials:
music and the things that student use for the projets.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1- Courses
Lecturer teaches students to improve their physical performances they need in their career. The knowledge required at the first phase of pysical awareness and the tranformation of this knowledge into practice are tought. Besides makes students to discover the movement potential of the human body. He/she does class works that students understand that the movement is a way of communication.
2- Practices
The issues mentioned and practiced in the class is transformed into a project. These projects are reported in detail.
3- Class Discussion
The projects made by students are discussed and critisized in the class. The criteria is that the work is right and effective . Student observes the effect on the audience. That helps to increase the quality and the creativity of the latter productions.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRC PRACTICE
2 ATT ATTENDANCE
3 COM COMMITTEE
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRC * 0.80 + ATT * 0.10 + COM * 0.10


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

*Evaluation phase requires advance physical ability, high concentration in class, group work ability, creativity and originality and absolute dicipline.
*Grades depand on attendance(1), concentration and creativity(2), success in presentation(3), positive contribution in class(4).

Assessment Criteria

The criteria stated above.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1- It's obligatory to attend %80 of the course
2- Student can't enter the class after the course begins.
3- For participation sportswear and sports shoes are obligatory.
4- During the class improper behaviors are ended with the send off of the student.
5- Being absent in the presentation day is equal to have no presentation.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

assoc. prof. dr. Sibel Erdenk
sibelerdenk@gmail.com

Office Hours

Thursday 10.00-11.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 11 2 22
Tutorials 11 2 22
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 6 4 24
Preparing assignments 3 4 12
Quiz etc. 3 4 12
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 92

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17PO.18PO.19PO.20
LO.145
LO.25
LO.35555
LO.454
LO.54
LO.65
LO.75455
LO.84545

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