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2024-2025 General Catalog [Current] 
    
2024-2025 General Catalog [Current]

Dance (Minor)

Location(s): Main Campus



Program Information

  • To qualify for technique classes that are level II or above requires a placement audition or Departmental approval regardless of minor status.

Dance Minor Curriculum (18 Credits)


Required Courses (5 Credits)


Theoretical Electives (3 Credits)


Complete 3 credits from the following:

Physical Practice Electives (10 Credits)


Complete 10 credits from the following:

Total Credits, Minor: 18


Program Learning Outcomes


A successful student will:

  • Demonstrate a beginning-level proficiency in multiple dance disciplines, an intermediate-level in few, or an advanced-level in one.
  • Analyze the historical, physical, and sociopolitical development of dance as a global art form.
  • Employ basic principles of improvisation and composition as tools for choreography.
  • Apply basic knowledge of human movement and anatomy to dance practice.
  • Possess working knowledge of one or more advanced topics related to the dance field: teaching methods, music fundamentals for dance, dance history, or dance kinesiology.