Classification: Minor
Degree:
With courses being offered in choreography, various dance techniques, and dance conditioning and injury prevention, students can feel prepared and confident creating dance works and/or performing set choreography on stage.
The total number of courses required for the minor is 6−9 (16−21 semester hours).
Required Courses
Both of the following (7 sem. hrs.)
- DANC 106 Get Moving! (3 sem. hrs.)
- THEA 100 Introduction to Performing Arts (4 sem. hrs.)
A combination of the following technique and/or performance courses (for a total of 6-8 sem. hrs.)
- DANC 205 Modern Dance Technique I (2 sem. hrs.)
- DANC 206 Ballet Technique I (2 sem. hrs.)
- DANC 210 Dance Technique I (2 sem. hrs.)
- Topics may include Jazz, Contemporary, Tap, Musical Theatre, and/or Choreography
- DANC 281 Rehearsal and Performance/Dance/Faculty (1−3 sem. hrs.)
- DANC 350 Advanced Rehearsal and Performance/Dance/Faculty (1−3 sem. hrs.)
- DANC 305 Modern Dance Technique II (2 sem. hrs.)
- DANC 306 Ballet Technique II (2 sem. hrs.)
- DANC 310 Dance Technique II (2 sem. hrs.)
- Topics may include Jazz II, Contemporary II, and/or Tap II
One of the following theory and creative process courses (3 sem. hrs.)
- DANC 300 Dance Kinesiology (3 sem. hrs.)
- DANC 316 Dance History (3 sem. hrs.)
- DANC 325 Dance Composition and Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis (3 sem. hrs.)