2022-2023 Catalog

Major: Dance, B.F.A. (1008), 64 Credits

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 120Stagecraft for Dance

2

DANC 203Rhythm in Sound and Movement  

2

DANC 222Embodied Africanist Aesthetics

3

DANC 291Music for Dance

3

DANC 303Experiential Anatomy

3

DANC 351Dance Composition I

3

DANC 352 Dance Composition II 

3

DANC 354Dance and Cultural Histories  

3

DANC 364Critical Approaches to Dance

3

DANC 495Senior 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 340Improvisation

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)
DANC 340Improvisation

1

DANC 294Projects

1

or

DANC 425Dance Production 

1

DANC 294, DANC 425: must fulfill the course as a choreographer

Electives (complete 2 of the following)*: (6 credits)
DANC 453Dance Composition III

3

THTR 317/DANC 317Design for Directors & Choreographers 

3

THTR 347Viewpoints

3

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