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BFA Dance Program
The Dance Program provides professional technical training, fosters an intensive creative process, offers extensive performance experience and promotes rigorous intellectual inquiry through its two degree programs: the Bachelor of Arts (BA) and the Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA). The BA is a Liberal Arts degree in general dance studies. The BFA requires a more in-depth study in technique, composition, performance and dance academics. Both degrees can prepare the student for a performance/creative career, teaching, or further studies in such areas of dance as: history, criticism, ethnology, pedagogy, movement analysis, kinesiology, etc.
While the Program's emphasis is on modern dance, four years of ballet, jazz and modern technique are offered as well as three years for tap instruction. Additional required course work includes history, theory, kinesiology, composition, music, pedagogy, performance, production, world dance techniques, somatic studies, and cultural studies. Acceptance by audition only.
| Dance Technique | ||
| DNCE 3010 | Modern Dance Technique 5 | 2 |
| DNCE 3020 | Modern Dance Technique 6 | 2 |
| DNCE 3110 | Ballet Technique 5 | 2 |
| DNCE 3120 | Ballet Technique 6 | 2 |
| DNCE 3210 | Jazz Technique 5 | 1 |
| DNCE 3220 | Jazz Technique 6 | 1 |
| DNCE 5010 | Modern Dance Technique 7 | 2 |
| DNCE 5020 | Modern Dance Technique 8 | 2 |
| Technique Electives | 6 | |
| Performance | ||
| DNCE 3700/5700 | Performance (1cr each) | 4 |
| Creativity/Dance Composition | ||
| DNCE 1601 | Improvisation | 1 |
| DNCE 1626 | Music for Dance | 3 |
| DNCE 3601 | Dance Composition 1 | 3 |
| DNCE 3602 | Dance Composition 2 | 3 |
| DNCE 4601 | Dance Composition 3 | 3 |
| DNCE 4602 | Dance Composition 4 | 3 |
| DNCE 5601 | Dance Composition 5 | 1 |
| Dance Academics | ||
| DNCE 3401 | Dance History 1 | 3 |
| DNCE 3402 | Dance History 2 | 3 |
| DNCE 3433 | Articulate Body | 3 |
| DNCE 3621 | Dance Production 1 | 2 |
| DNCE 3622 | Dance Production 2 | 2 |
| DNCE 3901 | Survival Strategies in Dance | 3 |
| DNCE 4443 | Theorizing Dancing Bodies | 3 |
| DNCE 4901 | Senior Seminar | 2 |
| DNCE 5858 | Teaching Dance | 4 |
| Related Academic Electives | 12 | |
| Total Dance Credits | 78 | |
| General Education Credits and Electives | 42 | |
| Total Degree Credits | 120 | |
| Dance Ethnology Requirements: World Dance Technique (2cr) and Academic Course (3cr) | ||