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Expanding knowledge and skill of modern dance technique, including floor work, elevations, inversions, and emerging performance skills. May be repeated.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 11 - Performance and Participation
Areas of Interest:
Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications
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Study and practice of specific techniques to improve dancers' performance, health, and teaching. Consent of instructor is required.

Areas of Interest:
Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications
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The study of dance making, dance accompaniment, and dance criticism through the creation of dance works. Consent of instructor is required.

Prerequisites:
DANC 228, DANC 322. Consent
Areas of Interest:
Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications
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Exploration of a variety of improvisational techniques for beginning Dance Majors and Minors. May be repeated. Consent of instructor is required.

Prerequisites:
Consent
Areas of Interest:
Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications
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Increasing difficulty of jazz dance technique through complexity of combinations, multiple turns, and more developed performance skills as applied to musical theatre or concert dance. May be repeated. Consent of instructor is required.

Areas of Interest:
Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications
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This course is first in a two-part series of courses required for the K-12 Dance Education license. It examines the theory and practice of dance education and applies this knowledge to simulated teaching and to selected clinical settings. Consent of instructor is required. Fall

Areas of Interest:
Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications
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Increasing difficulty of ballet technique with more complex combinations, multiple turns, pointe work, and greater emphasis on performance skills. May be repeated. Consent of instructor is required.

Areas of Interest:
Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications
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Increasing complexity of tap technique for musical theatre with greater emphasis on performance skills. May be repeated. Instructor consent is required.

Prerequisites:
Consent
Areas of Interest:
Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications
Programs:

Increasing complexity of modern dance technique, including floor work, partnering, elevation, inversions, and performance skills. May be repeated. Instructor consent is required.

Areas of Interest:
Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications
Programs:

Individualized teaching, performance, or choreographic experiences occurring on, or off-campus. May be repeated.

Prerequisites:
Consent.
Areas of Interest:
Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications
Programs:

Expanding knowledge and skill in dance partnering, with the emphasis on styles used in performance of concert dance. May be repeated. Instructor consent is required.

Areas of Interest:
Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications
Programs:

Expanding knowledge and skill in dance partnering, with the emphasis on styles used in performance of theatre and musical theatre. May be repeated. Consent of instructor is required.

Prerequisites:
Consent
Areas of Interest:
Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications
Programs:

Continuation of the principles and techniques of choreography with an emphasis on group forms.

Prerequisites:
DANC 321
Areas of Interest:
Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications
Programs:

This course is the second in a two-part series of courses required for the K-12 Dance Education license. The focus of the course is on lesson planning, assessment, and teaching in a variety of K-12 settings. Spring

Prerequisites:
DANC 324
Areas of Interest:
Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Rotation of a variety of topics in dance. May be repeated. Consent of instructor is required.

Prerequisites:
Consent
Areas of Interest:
Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications
Programs:

Repertory experience in performance of the choreography by a variety of dance artists. May be repeated. Consent of instructor is required.

Areas of Interest:
Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications
Programs:

Capstone experience for all dance majors. Individually paced and directed, this project can be: choreographic, performance, or written.

Prerequisites:
DANC 484W
Areas of Interest:
Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications
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Course will advance individual student's compositional skills through her/his solo and group projects in an self-paced manner. Consent of instructor is required.

Areas of Interest:
Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications
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Course will further advance individual student's compositional skills through her/his solo and group projects in an self-paced manner.

Prerequisites:
DANC 430, consent
Areas of Interest:
Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications
Programs:

Historical survey of Western theatrical dance from the 1500's to the present. Also integrates reading and discussion about how class, gender, and race affected the development of concert dance history in the United States and Europe.

Prerequisites:
DANC 120, DANC 225, DANC 226, DANC 228, DANC 321
Areas of Interest:
Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications
Programs:

Investigation of concert dance history from diverse perspectives. Along with western European contributions, the legacies and traditions associated with the African diaspora, North American indigenous populations, vernacular and folk forms will also will be included. Sociopolitical ideologies of race, class, and gender will apply to this historical examination.

Prerequisites:
DANC 225
Graduation Requirements:
Writing Intensive
Areas of Interest:
Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications
Programs:

This course is designed to provide dance students additional dance experiences through work beyond the campus environment.Fall, SpringPrereq: Consent

Prerequisites:
consent
Areas of Interest:
Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

This course is designed to provide students with specialized study in dance.Fall, SpringPrereq: Consent

Prerequisites:
consent
Areas of Interest:
Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Repertory experience in performance of the choreography by a variety of danceartists. May be repeated.

Course develops skills to plan, find, secure and thrive in career path in either the professional or academic field.

Areas of Interest:
Video, Technology, and Communications
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