Program: Dance with a Concentration in Dance Studio - Reed College

Jun 25, 2025

2025-26 Catalog

(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.

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.

One unit of choreography or improvisation from:

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.

One Unit in Theatre Design

Technical Proficiency:

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

Production:

Completion of

Junior Year Requirement:

Junior qualifying examination

Two units of Thesis

DANC 470 - Thesis