If you ask anyone, which course you liked most in college life .. especially from students of IIIT Hyderabad, they all will look at you like you have asked which one you like most osama, saddam or Kasaab.
Few of them will say C programming, data structures etc which they learn in first year, the age of innocence and sincerity.
But I'll say Dance, yeah the course under Humanities skill set courses label.
Taken by Sonal Nimbkar madam In first sem.
What she taught us was ‘what’ is dance, not 'how' to dance.
In the first class she just said everyone to walk with their eyes closed first normally
And then walk in a different manner, different style.
I usually try to walk with eyes closed many a times so this was not a problem, I tried but after 7-8 steps, i felt like i was walking like a blind man.
She asked "Aman, you are not taking it seriously", I said no mam "I am serious."
Then i explained that i do this many a times so it was like this.
In next class she made us play dumb-charades on animal names instead of movie names. We had to act like them and producing their sound was allowed.
I got "bat" to act upon. I tried by doing acting and showing black colour, it was easy so everyone guessed.
But when i came back, Akshay mani told me that you could do this by showing cricket bat.
Oh ya!! i though, I was lost in that game, that i forgot about winning it that way.
In next class she gave a stick, ask all of us to sit in a circle, everyone has to come in the middle and do something different with that:
someone used that like cricket bat, someone used it like pen, badminton racket, hammer, flute, straw, screw-driver, meter rod, key board, broom, water bottle and many other different things.
We just came to know that there is enormous creativity inside everyone.
In next class same thing was done using a piece of cloth.
In one class she asked what you saw in dream last night, just tell us all, without using your tongue.
Everyone was showing something, the scene was divine.
It was so beautiful that i could see what the person in front of me dreamed last night, and surprisingly everyone was doing this very enthusiastically and skillfully.
After every class students asked mam when will you teach us dance, she always replied this was dance.
Best thing was that I didn't know there will be grading in the course.
Until 14th of January, when the results were declared.
I got A grade :)
NOW
the learning part
I enjoyed the course no doubt but why i was able to enjoy the course, I got the answer in 3rd year, when i took "Education and Self" course.
Whatever we did she said this is dance. We all were happy, because that dance was ours, it came from with in.
We came to know about meaning of dance through that course
Had she taught us the history of dance or bio-psychology or the well defined steps of dance, she wound be teaching us the ‘why’ and ‘how’ part, which we may not have enjoyed that much.Knowing the ‘what’ part itself gives a delight to study it further.
Everybody though it is just a pass or fail course. While some of them enjoyed the course, others didn’t even show interest in it. But the thing was that every class we attended was full of fun, because there was no worry of grades, and cramming up things before the class. Every class we attended with a fresh mind full of creative ideas. This just shows how the modern education system has put this component out of the the learning. It was totally unbiased learning. :)
Few of them will say C programming, data structures etc which they learn in first year, the age of innocence and sincerity.
But I'll say Dance, yeah the course under Humanities skill set courses label.
Taken by Sonal Nimbkar madam In first sem.
What she taught us was ‘what’ is dance, not 'how' to dance.
In the first class she just said everyone to walk with their eyes closed first normally
And then walk in a different manner, different style.
I usually try to walk with eyes closed many a times so this was not a problem, I tried but after 7-8 steps, i felt like i was walking like a blind man.
She asked "Aman, you are not taking it seriously", I said no mam "I am serious."
Then i explained that i do this many a times so it was like this.
In next class she made us play dumb-charades on animal names instead of movie names. We had to act like them and producing their sound was allowed.
I got "bat" to act upon. I tried by doing acting and showing black colour, it was easy so everyone guessed.
But when i came back, Akshay mani told me that you could do this by showing cricket bat.
Oh ya!! i though, I was lost in that game, that i forgot about winning it that way.
In next class she gave a stick, ask all of us to sit in a circle, everyone has to come in the middle and do something different with that:
someone used that like cricket bat, someone used it like pen, badminton racket, hammer, flute, straw, screw-driver, meter rod, key board, broom, water bottle and many other different things.
We just came to know that there is enormous creativity inside everyone.
In next class same thing was done using a piece of cloth.
In one class she asked what you saw in dream last night, just tell us all, without using your tongue.
Everyone was showing something, the scene was divine.
It was so beautiful that i could see what the person in front of me dreamed last night, and surprisingly everyone was doing this very enthusiastically and skillfully.
After every class students asked mam when will you teach us dance, she always replied this was dance.
Best thing was that I didn't know there will be grading in the course.
Until 14th of January, when the results were declared.
I got A grade :)
NOW
the learning part
I enjoyed the course no doubt but why i was able to enjoy the course, I got the answer in 3rd year, when i took "Education and Self" course.
Whatever we did she said this is dance. We all were happy, because that dance was ours, it came from with in.
We came to know about meaning of dance through that course
Had she taught us the history of dance or bio-psychology or the well defined steps of dance, she wound be teaching us the ‘why’ and ‘how’ part, which we may not have enjoyed that much.Knowing the ‘what’ part itself gives a delight to study it further.
Everybody though it is just a pass or fail course. While some of them enjoyed the course, others didn’t even show interest in it. But the thing was that every class we attended was full of fun, because there was no worry of grades, and cramming up things before the class. Every class we attended with a fresh mind full of creative ideas. This just shows how the modern education system has put this component out of the the learning. It was totally unbiased learning. :)
