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.
Course List | Course ID | Title | Credits |
| DANC 2010 | Performance I | 3 |
| DANC 2520 | Dance Composition II | 3 |
| DANC 3520 | Dance Composition III | 3 |
| DANC 3550 | Laban Movement Studies (with S/L) | 3 |
| DANC 4580 | Dance Company (Four Semesters) | 4 |
| DANC 4600 | Choreography & Media | 3 |
| DANC 4730 | Dance History: The History of Ballet and Modern Dance | 3 to 4 |
| DANC 4900 | Building Comm Thru Arts (with S/L) | 3 |
| Scene Shop Practicum | |
| Costume Shop Practicum | |
| Running Crew Practicum | |
| Senior Choreographic Project | |
| Special Topics | |
| Honors Thesis | |
| Honors Thesis | |
| US/Caribe Social Dance | |
| Philanthropy and Social Change | |
| Stage Management | |
| Performing Arts Management | |
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| 23 |
| Total Credit Hours | 56-57 |
Dance Technique
Students must achieve level IV in either ballet or modern 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 modern 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 modern dance through graduation. BFA candidates are required to enroll in both Intensive Modern 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.
