Teaching

Professor Blu Wakpa has taught a wide range of interdisciplinary and community-engaged courses at public, private, tribal, and carceral institutions. In 2020, she was the first Assistant Professor at UCLA to receive a Chancellor’s Award for Community-Engaged Scholars.

University of California, Los Angeles

Dance 44: World Dance Histories (core; lower-division undergraduate course)

Dance 45: Introduction to Dance Studies (core; lower-division undergraduate course)

Dance 101: Theories of Dance/Performance (core; upper-division undergraduate course)

Dance 145/245: Colonization and Confinement (elective; concurrent graduate and upper-division undergraduate course)

Dance C145/245XP: Dance and Decolonization (elective; concurrent graduate and upper-division undergraduate course)

What Students Say

 

"This has been one of my favorite classes during my UCLA experience, and I'm really grateful to have gotten the opportunity to learn from Professor Blu Wakpa, who had such an amazing passion and depth of knowledge for the topics that we engaged."

Dance 145: Colonization and Confinement, Spring 2021

"Professor Blu Wakpa's course content is very informative, important, relevant, and impactful. I really enjoy all the topics she includes as it has helped expand my understanding and relationship of/with dance and dance studies."

Dance 45: Introduction to Dance Studies, Spring 2021

"Professor Blu Wakpa is a gem. She is knowledgeable about dance studies, and she is warm towards her students."

Dance 44: World Dance Histories, Winter 2021