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

General Education: 30 Credits; Major: 52 Credits; Elective Credits: 38 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 120Stagecraft for Dance

2
DANC 203Rhythm in Sound and Movement  

2
DANC 222Embodied Africanist Aesthetics

3
DANC 354Dance and Cultural Histories  

3
DANC 364Critical Approaches to Dance

3
DANC 495Senior 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 116Nutrition

3
BIOL 136Anatomy

4
BIOL 234Human Physiology

4
DANC 261Introduction to Movement Analysis and Notation  

3
DANC 369Anatomy II 

3
DANC 371Somatic Awareness  

3
DANC 399Independent Study/Internship

1-6
or
DANC 499Independent Study/Internship

1-6

Dance and Media Concentration (21 Credits)

Required courses: (15 credits)
ART 116Color and Design

3
or
DANC 291Music for Dance

3
COMM 112Storytelling Across Media

3
DANC 216/COMM 216/MUS 216Digital Sound Workshop 

3
DANC 351Dance Composition I

3
DANC 370Movement, Media, Theory

3
Two sequential courses from any one of the following areas: (6 credits)
A. Video
COMM 233Video Field Production

3
COMM 359Directing Video

3
B. Photography
ART 121Photography I: An Introduction to Medium, Content and Context

3
ART 213Photography II: An Intermediate Exploration of Medium, Content and Context

3
C. Digital Imaging and Web-based Media
ART 210Digital Imaging I

3
ART 342DIGITAL IMAGING II
COMM 225New Media Workshop

3
COMM 325 Interactive Media

3
COMM 326Producing For Creative Media

3
COMM 347Integrated Media

3
D. Audio Design and Production
COMM 349/MUS 349 Projects in Digital Sound

3
THTR 254Audio Technology for Performance I

3
THTR 354Audio Technology for Performance II

3
E. Graphic Design
ART 237Graphic Design I

3
ART 338Graphic Design II: Digital

3

Dance Studies Concentration (21 Credits)

 
Required courses: (21)

 

DANC 261Introduction to Movement Analysis and Notation  

3
DANC 291Music for Dance

3
DANC 351Dance Composition I

3
DANC One appropriate 300- or 400-level course from another Dance BA concentration

3
PHR 101Foundations of Social and Political Inquiry

3
PHR 342/IS 342/PS 342/SOC 342Social Movement Protest and Conflict

3
PHR 357/IS 357Human Rights in Comparative Perspective

3

Teaching Dance Arts Concentration (21 Credits)

Required courses: (21)
DANC 291Music for Dance

3
DANC 303Experiential Anatomy

3
DANC 351Dance Composition I

3
DANC 357Techniques of Teaching Dance I: Creative Dance for Children 

3
DANC 457Techniques of Teaching Dance II 

3
DANC Elective in Modern or Ballet

3
or
DANC 340Improvisation

1
and
Two Semesters of Projects

2
DANC 371Somatic 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.