What will I learn?
The Bachelor of Arts in Dance provides students with a balanced course of study that helps to prepare them for graduate study in dance in addition to a range of careers in dance and dance-related fields.Majors will demonstrate competency in modern dance, ballet, jazz, and street and club dances, enabling them to pursue careers in dance and dance-related fields such as dance education, studio-based teaching, performance/choreography, and health and fitness.Majors will describe historical, socio-cultural, and scientific dimensions of dance.Majors will practice the fundamental skills and techniques necessary for the public performance of dance.Majors will demonstrate skills in the production and technological aspects of dance.Majors will analyze and describe the craft and aesthetic qualities of dance orally, practically, and in writing.The Department of Dance offers a variety of movement practices that include technique, improvisation, choreography and Pilates. Dance majors study modern/contemporary dance forms, ballet, jazz, street and club dances, and traditional and contemporary African dance forms tap may be taken as an elective. Dance majors learn the essentials of dance concert production, and music as it relates to dance, and draw connections between theory and practice by investigating dance through historical, pedagogical, scientific, and cultural lenses. The department also offers numerous GE and activity courses for non-majors, including introduction to dance courses and beginning through intermediate levels of ballet, modern, jazz, street and club dances, tap, and dances of Africa and the African diaspora. Performances, master classes and guest artist residencies enhance the creative vibrancy of the department, campus and community.All new undergraduate students (BA, pre-BFA, pre-BS in Dance Science) enroll in a series of foundation courses taken in the first year of study.
