General Education: 42 Credits; Major: 64 Credits; Elective Credits: 16 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 Course: (56 credits)
| Ballet (by placement) | 12 |
| Modern (by placement) | 12 |
| Jazz (by placement) | 3 |
| Tap (by placement) | 1 |
| DANC 120 | Stagecraft for Dance | 2 |
| DANC 203 | Rhythm in Sound and Movement | 2 |
| DANC 222 | Embodied Africanist Aesthetics | 3 |
| DANC 291 | Music for Dance | 3 |
| DANC 303 | Experiential Anatomy | 3 |
| DANC 351 | Dance Composition I | 3 |
| DANC 352 | Dance Composition II | 3 |
| DANC 354 | Dance and Cultural Histories | 3 |
| DANC 364 | Critical Approaches to Dance | 3 |
| DANC 495 | Senior Seminar | 3 |
The remaining eight credits should be earned by completing one of the following four concentrations
Ballet Concentration (8 Credits)
Required courses: (8 credits)
| Ballet (by placement) | 3 |
| Pointe (by placement, 1 credit each) | 2 |
| | or | |
| Performing Masculinity in the Ballet Cannon (1 credit each) | 2 |
Modern Concentration (8 Credits)
Required courses: (8 credits)
| Modern (by placement) | 3 |
| DANC 340 | Improvisation | 1 |
| Special Topic of Related Interest* | 1 |
*Examples of Special Topics: African, Commercial Jazz, Flamenco, Partnering, and/or Contact Improvisation
Choreography Concentration (8 Credits)
Required courses: (2 credits)
Electives (complete 2 of the following)*: (6 credits)
Note: A student who choreographs four (4) semesters for DANC 294 or DANC 425 may bundle three of those credits as substitution for any one (1) three credit course of the Elective requirements.
Jazz Concentration (8 Credits)
Required courses: (8 credits)
| Jazz (by placement) | 6 |
| Tap (by placement, 1 credit each) | 2 |