DANCE 44

World Dance Histories

Dance · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)

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Comparative framework for looking at dance practices through time as they have developed around world, questioning relation of dance to culture and politics and providing students with tools for investigating histories of any given dance form.

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When it runs

Winter 2026
Winter 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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DANCE 44

DANCE 45Introduction to Dance Studies
- DANCE 101Theories of Dance

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