Dance Education Minor

Minor - Dance Specialization Education (Minor)

College of Visual & Perf Arts

Catalog Year: 2016-2017

Degree Specific Credits: 21

Required Cumulative GPA: 2.0

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Dance Education Minor LD Core

Rule: Must complete the following subcategories.

5 Total Credits Required

Composition

Rule: Course is required.

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Show Description DANC 220A - Creative Practice I
(R-6) Offered spring. Prereq., DANC 200A. Exploration of stimulus, structure, and performance of both composed and improvised movement. Elements such as space, shape, energy, motion, time, quality, form and awareness emphasized. Instructor-designed structures, transitioning to student-designed scores, culminating in originally created/improvised performance.
 3 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 3 Total Credits Required

Teaching Experience

Rule: Repeat once.

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Show Description DANC 295 - Stdnt Tching:Children’s Dance
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
Minimum Required Grade: C- 2 Total Credits Required

Dance Education Minor UD Core

Rule: Must complete the following subcategories.

14 Total Credits Required

Required Courses.

Rule: All courses are required

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Show Description DANC 360L - World Dance
(R-6) Offered autumn odd-numbered years. Investigation of dances of diverse cultures. Study of dance as: an emblem of cultural identity, social order, power and gender-specific behavior; an expression of religion and/or ritual; a classical art form; and as a medium for personal expression in Western and non-Western world cultures.
 3 Credits
Show Description DANC 440 - Dance Pedagogy
(R-9) Offered autumn even-numbered years. Methods and experiences in teaching modern dance, ballet and jazz.
 3 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 6 Total Credits Required

In-Schools Experience

Rule: Repeat once.

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

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Show Description DANC 497 - Methods: Tchng Movmnt in Schls
Offered autumn odd-numbered years. Prereq., consent of instr. Experience in planning, observing and directing creative movement as a teaching tool in K-5.
 3 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 6 Total Credits Required

Technique Experience I

Rule: Choose 1 of the 2 options.

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Show Description DANC 300 - Contemporary 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 310 - Ballet III
(R-12) Offered autumn and spring. Development of ability to combine steps; carriage of head and arms.
 2 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 2-3 Total Credits Required

Technique Experience II

Rule: Select at least 1 of the 5 options as listed below.

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Show Description DANC 118A - Dance Forms: Tap
(R-8) Offered intermittently. Introduction to basic tap dance vocabulary and technique.
 2 Credits
Show Description DANC 160A - Dance Forms: Irish
(R-8) Offered autumn and spring.  Introduction to basic Irish dance vocabulary and technique.
 2 Credits
Show Description DANC 165A - Dance Forms: African
(R-8) Offered autumn. Introduction to basic African dance vocabulary and technique.
 2 Credits
Show Description DANC 315 - Jazz III
(R-12) Offered autumn. Prereq., DANC 215A or consent of instr. Continuation of DANC 215A.
 2 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 2 Total Credits Required

Rule: By advisement.

Note: Social, Cultural/World, or Traditional/Indigenous technique course.

Dance Education Minor Electives

Rule: Optional; by advisement.

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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
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: Pass 6 Total Credits Required