Major: Dance, B.A. (1008), 52 Credits

General Education: 42 Credits; Major: 52 Credits; Elective Credits: 26 Credits

Dance Department Programmatic Goals

Upon completing the BFA/BA major in dance, as appropriate to their concentration, students will be able to:

• Demonstrate substantive engagements with diverse dance practices and their intrinsic skill sets.
• Demonstrate through kinesthetic, written, and/or verbal work, a critical engagement with the histories, theoretical frameworks and cultural contexts of dance.
• Integrate conceptual and kinesthetic skills across dance practices, performances, theories, and/or histories.
• Propose and/or employ strategies for arts advocacy through dance.

Required courses: (31 credits)

	Ballet (by placement)	3
	Modern (by placement)	3
	Jazz (by placement)	3
DANC 120	Stagecraft for Dance	2
DANC 203	Rhythm in Sound and Movement	2
DANC 222	Embodied Africanist Aesthetics	3
DANC 354	Dance and Cultural Histories	3
DANC 364	Critical Approaches to Dance	3
DANC 495	Senior Seminar	3

The remaining 21 credits should be earned by completing one of the following four concentrations

Body, Science and Motion Concentration (w/optional Biology or Psychology Minor) (21 Credits)

Required courses: (21 credits)

BIOL 116	Nutrition	3
BIOL 136	Anatomy	4
BIOL 234	Human Physiology	4
DANC 261	Introduction to Movement Analysis and Notation	3
DANC 369	Anatomy II	3
DANC 371	Somatic Awareness	3
DANC 399	Independent Study/Internship	1-6
	or
DANC 499	Independent Study/Internship	1-6

Dance and Media Concentration (21 Credits)

Required courses: (15 credits)

ART 116	Color and Design	3
	or
DANC 291	Music for Dance	3
COMM 112	Storytelling Across Media	3
DANC 216/COMM 216/MUS 216	Digital Sound Workshop	3
DANC 351	Dance Composition I	3
DANC 370	Movement, Media, Theory	3

Two sequential courses from any one of the following areas: (6 credits)

A. Video

COMM 233	Video Field Production	3
COMM 359	Directing Video	3

B. Photography

ART 121	Photography I: An Introduction to Medium, Content and Context	3
ART 213	Photography II: An Intermediate Exploration of Medium, Content and Context	3

C. Digital Imaging and Web-based Media

ART 210	Digital Imaging I	3
ART 342	DIGITAL IMAGING II
COMM 225	New Media Workshop	3
COMM 325	Interactive Media	3
COMM 326	Producing For Creative Media	3
COMM 347	Integrated Media	3

D. Audio Design and Production

COMM 349/MUS 349	Projects in Digital Sound	3
THTR 254	Audio Technology for Performance I	3
THTR 354	Audio Technology for Performance II	3

E. Graphic Design

ART 237	Graphic Design I	3
ART 338	Graphic Design II: Digital	3

Dance Studies Concentration (21 Credits)

 

Required courses: (21)

 

DANC 261	Introduction to Movement Analysis and Notation	3
DANC 291	Music for Dance	3
DANC 351	Dance Composition I	3
DANC	One appropriate 300- or 400-level course from another Dance BA concentration	3
PHR 101	Foundations of Social and Political Inquiry	3
PHR 342/IS 342/PS 342/SOC 342	Social Movement Protest and Conflict	3
PHR 357/IS 357	Human Rights in Comparative Perspective	3

Teaching Dance Arts Concentration (21 Credits)

Required courses: (21)

DANC 291	Music for Dance	3
DANC 303	Experiential Anatomy	3
DANC 351	Dance Composition I	3
DANC 357	Techniques of Teaching Dance I: Creative Dance for Children	3
DANC 457	Techniques of Teaching Dance II	3
DANC	Elective in Modern or Ballet	3
	or
DANC 340	Improvisation	1
	and
	Two Semesters of Projects	2
DANC 371	Somatic Awareness	3

The student wishing to pursue the Teaching Dance Arts concentration must show proficiency in one of the dance techniques on a 220 level or above at the point of admission to this concentration.