The B.F.A. curriculum in dance emphasizes professional level training within a liberal arts setting while focusing on the development of technical abilities, choreographic skill, teaching methods, dance technology, movement studies, the study of dance history, and other dance related courses. The program strives to unite academic and artistic inquiry with a wide range of course offerings in both practice and research. Invited auditions in sophomore year.
The major requires 57 credits as follows:
Note: Auditions are required for the BFA degree. Candidates audition in the spring semester of their sophomore year. They may audition for the BA in their first year. BA auditions are held every year in the fall semester.
Students must achieve level IV in either ballet or contemporary dance technique and level III in the other in order to graduate and will be evaluated at the end of each academic year. Students who demonstrate proficiency at the technique level III in contemporary dance or ballet (DANC 3830 Intensive Contemporary Dance III (3 c.h.), DANC 3840 Intensive Ballet III (3 c.h.)) will be place at level IV (DANC 4830 Intensive Contemporary Dance IV (3 c.h.), DANC 4840 Intensive Ballet IV (3 c.h.)). Each of these courses may be repeated for credit. Dance majors must continue to be enrolled for credit in ballet and contemporary dance through graduation. BFA candidates are required to enroll in both Intensive Contemporary Dance (4-day) and Intensive Ballet (4-day) each semester at their proper level III or IV. For the BFA candidate, the maximum number of dance technique credits that may be counted toward the 120 credit hours for graduation is 30 credits.
