Student ID:__________________________ Student Name:_______________________ Advisor Name:_______________________ Catalog: 2025-26 Catalog Program: Dance with a Concentration in Dance Studio

Dance with a Concentration in Dance Studio

(Requirements for the Dance major with a concentration in danc studio are listed below. Follow this link for the Dance Minor requirements.)

Students must complete all of the following requirements to graduate with a bachelor of arts in this program. Some courses may apply toward multiple requirements.

College Requirements:

Degree Requirements 

Students are required to complete all standard college requirements.

Major Requirements:

Total major units: 13.5-15

Dance Requirements:

Dance Studies (history, theory, critical and cultural studies):

⇒Courses that satisfy dance studies requirements may not simultaneously satisfy dance studio requirements.

Course NameTermCompleted?Group Req.
DANC 201 - Introduction to Dance Studies: History and Culture

 

DANC 362 - Dance & Ecology: Ethnographic Approaches

OR

DANC 365 - Dance and Identity on the Global Stage

⇒Completed prior to the senior year

⇒Students should inquire with the Dance department about appropriate substitutions

Two additional units in dance studies (excluding 470)

Dance Studio (technique, improvisation, choreography and performance):

⇒Courses that satisfy dance studio requirements may not simultaneously satisfy dance studies requirements.

Course NameTermCompleted?Group Req.
DANC 211 - Afro-Contemporary Dance

OR

DANC 311 - Contemporary Dance III: Action and Interaction

Prerequisite(s): DANC 211 or DANC 313, or equivalent experience

One unit of choreography or improvisation from:
Course NameTermCompleted?Group Req.
DANC 252 - Improvisation
DANC 253 - Improvisation: Solo Forms and Shared Practices
DANC 254 - Contact Improvisation
DANC 313 - Contemporary Dance V: Biography/Autobiography

Prerequisite(s): DANC 211 or DANC 311 or equivalent experience

Five additional units in dance studio (excluding 470)

⇒With departmental permission, one unit of this requirement may be met by a studio course in art, creative writing, music, or theatre.

⇒Credit for dance technique courses (DANC 101) may be applied toward this requirement.

A minimum of one unit of the above requirements (studio or studies) must focus on dance outside the Euro-American tradition.

Course NameTermCompleted?Group Req.
DANC 112 - Introduction to Contemporary Dance: Cross-Cultural Contexts
DANC 260 - Dances of Bali, Indonesia
DANC 265 - Dances of Africa and the African Diaspora
DANC 362 - Dance & Ecology: Ethnographic Approaches
DANC 365 - Dance and Identity on the Global Stage

One Unit in Theatre Design

Course NameTermCompleted?Group Req.
THEA 202 - Introduction to Theatrical Design
THEA 225 - Drawing, Rendering, and Modeling Live Performances
THEA 328 - Performance Technology

Prerequisite(s): THEA 202 

Technical Proficiency:

  • 400-level technical proficiency in one dance form
  • 200-level technical proficiency in a second dance form

Production:

Completion of

Course NameTermCompleted?Group Req.
DANC 100 - Dance Production

Prerequisite(s): Audition or department approval

OR

THEA 100 - Theatre Laboratory

OR

THEA 201 - Stagecraft

Junior Year Requirement:

  • Junior qualifying examination

Two units of Thesis

Course NameTermCompleted?Group Req.
DANC 470 - Thesis
Notes: