Performing Arts Major/Dance Concentration (Bachelor of Arts)

Curriculum Requirements - Total Credits Required: 126

First Year - Credits: 32

Quantitative Reasoning General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)

DAN 105 - Repertory Dance Ensemble (Cr: 1) (Students will take twice)
DAN 109 - Commercial Dance: Practice and Survey (Cr: 1) (Student will take twice)
DAN 120 - Ballet Techniques (Cr: 1) (Students will take twice)
DAN 225 - Dance History (Cr: 3)
DAN 235 - Mind and Body Awareness (Cr: 3)
DRA 220 - Introduction to Theater Production (Cr: 3)
DAN 240 - Global Dance (Cr: 3)
ENG 111 - Critical Reading and Writing I (Cr: 3)
ENG 112 - Critical Reading and Writing II (Cr: 3)
INT 100 - Internship I (Cr: 2)
PA 100 - Introduction to Performing Arts (Cr: 3)
Satisfies Aesthetic Awareness General Elective

Second Year - Credits: 32

Science and Technology General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
Literary Perspectives General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
Individual and Society General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
World Cultures General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
PA XXX Performing Arts Elective (CR: 3)

DAN 105 - Repertory Dance Ensemble (Cr: 1)
DAN 200 - Dance Composition (Choreography) (Cr: 3)
DAN 211 - Modern and Contemporary Dance Aesthetics (Cr: 1) (Students will take twice)
DAN 220 - Ballet Techniques II (Cr: 1)
INT 200 - Internship II (Cr: 2)
PA 101 - Performance Review (Cr: 1)
PA 300 - Performance Workshop I (Cr: 3)
PA 305 - Performance Workshop II (Cr: 3)

Third Year - Credits: 31

General Education Electives (Cr: 9)
Global Issues General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
Values and Ethical Reasoning General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
PA XXX Performing Arts Elective (Cr: 3)

ART 265 - Arts Administration I (Cr: 3)
DAN 105 - Repertory Dance Ensemble (Cr: 1)
DAN 214 - Dance Improvisation (Cr: 1)
DAN 220 - Ballet Techniques II (Cr: 1) (Students will take twice)
DRA 105 - Theater Performance (Cr: 1 or 3)
PA 101 - Performance Review (Cr: 1) (Students will take twice)
PA 310 - Audition and Portfolio (Cr: 3)

Fourth Year - Credits: 31

Elective (Cr: 3)
General Education Elective (Cr: 3)

Performing Arts Elective (Cr: 6)

DAN 105 - Repertory Dance Ensemble (Cr: 1)
PA 480 - Semester Internship (Cr: 12)
PA 489 - Senior Research (Cr: 3)
PA 491 - Senior Capstone (Cr: 3)

Performing Arts Elective

Students must take 12 credits under the designation of Performing Arts Elective.

For this elective requirement, students may take up to nine credits in any courses in their designed concentration area (DAN). However, three credits must be in an area outside the student’s concentration area in order to promote cross-discipline growth. Students may choose from any DAN, DRA, MUS, PA or any of the following courses:

AET 100 - Foundations of Creative Therapies (Cr: 3)
AET 200 - Materials, Media, and Metaphor (Cr: 3)
AET 205 - Music Therapy Foundations (Cr: 3)
AET 206 - Guitar for Therapy and Education (Cr: 3)
AET 207 - Drumming for Healing (Cr: 3)
AET 210 - Therapeutic Writing (Cr: 3)
AET 215 - Dance/Movement Therapy Foundations (Cr: 3)
AET 225 - Jung and Art Therapy (Cr: 3)
AET 305 - Cultural Humility in the Arts Therapies (Cr: 3)
AET 306 - Drama Therapy and Psychodrama (Cr: 3)
ART 240 - Imagination and Creativity (Cr: 3)
ART 266 - Writing in the Arts Seminar (Cr: 3)
ART 365 - Arts Administration II (Cr: 3)
DM 110 - Introduction to Digital Filmmaking (Cr: 3)
DM 255 - Writing for the Screen (Cr: 3)
DM 281 - TV Studio Production I (Cr: 3)
DRA 215 - Acting for Film (Cr: 3)
ED 215 - Creative Arts in the Early Childhood and Elementary Classrooms (Cr: 3)
ENG 103 - Public Speaking (Cr: 3)
ENG 212 - Drama Survey (Cr: 3)
ENG 229 - Playwriting and Screenwriting I (Cr: 3)
ENG 340 - Playwriting and Screenwriting II (Cr: 3)
ENG 365 - Shakespeare (Cr: 3)
IDS 301 - Yoga: Theory, Culture & Practice (Cr: 3)
MTH 105 - The Mathematics of Music (Cr: 3)