Dance Minor

Minor - Dance (Minor)

College of Visual & Perf Arts

Catalog Year: 2014-2015

Degree Specific Credits: 31

Required Cumulative GPA: 2.0

Dance Minor LD Core

Rule: Must complete the following subcategories

22 Total Credits Required

Composition

Rule: Course required.

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Show Description DANC 220A - Beginning Composition
(R-4) Offered spring. Prereq., DANC 200A. Basic use of space, time and energy in dance. Movement composition studies assigned each week.
 2 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 2 Total Credits Required

Modern Experience I

Rule: 4 credits required at or above the listed level.

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Show Description DANC 100A - Modern Dance I
(R-4) Offered autumn and spring. Introduction to basic modern dance vocabulary through exercises for alignment, strength and flexibility and combinations across the floor.
 2 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 4 Total Credits Required

Modern Experience II

Rule: Repeat once.

Note: Section 01 for first registration; Section 40 for second.

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Show Description DANC 200A - Modern II
(R-12) Offered autumn and spring. Prereq., DANC 100A. Continuation of the modern dance vocabulary at an advanced-beginner level.
 2 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 4 Total Credits Required

Ballet Experience I

Rule: 4 credits required at or above the listed level.

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Show Description DANC 110A - Ballet I
(R-4) Offered autumn and spring. Introduction to basic ballet positions and steps.
 2 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 4 Total Credits Required

Ballet Experience II

Rule: 2 credits required at or above the listed level.

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Show Description DANC 210A - Ballet II
(R-12) Offered autumn and spring. Prereq., DANC 110A. Continuation of the ballet vocabulary at an advanced-beginner level.
 2 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 2 Total Credits Required

Jazz Experience

Rule: 2 credits required at or above the listed level.

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Show Description DANC 115A - Jazz Dance I
(R-4) Offered autumn and spring. Introduction to basic strengthening and stretching exercises and stylistic characteristics of jazz.
 2 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 2 Total Credits Required

Production Course

Rule: Registration and credit load based on casting for Theatre & Dance productions.

Note: Performing in one piece equals one credit.

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Show Description DANC 225 - Rehearsal & Performance
(R-12) Offered autumn and spring. Prereq., consent of instr. Open to students who are choreographing a dance for a concert or to those who have been selected through audition to perform.
 1 To 4 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 2 Total Credits Required

Lab Courses

Rule: Repeat once.

Dance Minor UD Core

Rule: All courses required.

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Show Description DANC 300 - Modern III
(R-12) Offered autumn and spring. Prereq., DANC 200A. Extension of the modern dance vocabulary through lengthier combinations of movement.
 3 Credits
Show Description DANC 334 - Dance History
Offered autumn odd-numbered years. Discussion of primary movements and major figures in American modern dance, including global influences and its relationship to cultural trends of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
 3 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 6 Total Credits Required

Dance Minor Electives

Rule: Select 1 of 3 options as listed below: Improv, Kinesiology, or Teaching.

Minimum Required Grade: C-
3-4 Total Credits Required

Improv

Rule: All courses are required.

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Show Description DANC 205 - Improvisation
(R-6) Offered spring. Exploration of stimulus, structure and performance of improvised movement. Elements such as space, shape, motion, time, quality, form and awareness emphasized. Instructor-designed structures, transitioning to student-designed scores, culminating in improvised performance.
 2 Credits
Show Description DANC 305 - Contact Improvisation
(R-6) Offered autumn odd-numbered years. The art of moving with one or more partners while using a shifting point of contact and supporting each other's weight. Skills such as rolling, suspending, falling and recovering together explored through physical sensations that use weight, counter-balance and yielding.
 2 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 4 Total Credits Required

Kinesiology

Rule: All courses are required.

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Show Description DANC 280 - Dance Conditioning: Pilates
(R-8) Offered autumn and spring. Pilates mat (floor) exercises to build core control, strength and flexibility.
 1 Credits
Show Description DANC 380 - Science of Dance Movement
Offered spring even-numbered years. Study of the skeletal system and how it relates to dance movement. Basic kinesthetic principles, conditioning for dancers, and injury recognition and prevention.
 3 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 4 Total Credits Required

Teaching

Rule: All courses are required.

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Show Description DANC 298 - Internship: Children's Dance
(R-4) Offered autumn and spring. Students participate and gain beginning-level teaching experience in two of four dance classes for children ranging in ages from 3 ½ to 12 years old.
 1 Credits
Show Description DANC 406 - Dance as a Healing Art
(R-6) Offered spring. Study of body movement as a reflection of inner emotional states. How changes in movement lead to changes in the psyche, promoting health and growth. Exploration of techniques for experiencing the inter-connection between movement and emotional expression.
 2 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 3 Total Credits Required