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  • 1.00 Credits

    This is the first of a two-semester sequence. The course provides modern dance majors with opportunities for mastery of ballet technique at an intermediate/advanced level. Prerequisites: "C-" or better in DANC 2321 OR Department Consent.
  • 2.00 Credits

    This course continues to focus on mastery of technical facility, qualitative expression, and bodily connectivity. Students build technical and performance skills through exposure to increasingly complex movement material. Techniques taught can include but are not limited to: varied modern and post-modern dance forms, jazz, somatic practices, forms from the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, and varied improvisational forms. Prerequisites: "C-" or better in DANC 3310 OR Department Consent.
  • 1.00 Credits

    This is a second of a two-semester sequence. The course provides modern dance majors with opportunities for mastery of ballet technique at an intermediate/advanced level. Prerequisites: "C-" or better in DANC 2311 OR Department Consent.
  • 2.00 Credits

    This course is designed to offer advanced experience with improvisational studies, including learning to design and lead improvisation activities. Students develop individual expression and movement creation through improvisational structures, practice, and forms. Prerequisites: "C-" or better in DANC 2420 OR Department Consent.
  • 2.00 Credits

    The course explores the relationship between dance and other artistic elements and considerations that include music, sound design, text, projections and interactive media, and the space(s) in which dance is created and presented. Prerequisites: "C-" or better in (DANC 3410 AND DANC 2640) OR Department Consent.
  • 1.00 - 4.00 Credits

    This course will provide students in-depth study of a specific dance genre focusing on technique and style. The genre of dance will vary semester to semester based on the expertise of the instructor. Prerequisites: Full Major status in the School of Dance or Department Consent
  • 1.00 Credits

    This is an open forum techniques course that offers students alternate movement practices from ones taught more consistently in the School of Dance. The course focuses on gaining new movement pathways and dance skills, and/or mastery of technical facility, qualitative expression, and bodily connectivity in a variety of dance forms. Students build technical and performance skills through exposure to increasingly complex movement material. This course may introduce alternate movement practice that help expand each dancers art horizon. Techniques taught can include but are not limited to: varied alternate ballet and contemporary forms, contact improvisation, forms from the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, varied somatic practices, theater practices, forms from the Pacific Islands diaspora, among others.
  • 1.00 - 3.00 Credits

    This course is available to undergraduate dance majors desiring academic credit for a relevant course or experience outside of the departmental undergraduate curriculum. Students must seek faculty approval for independent study. Prerequisites: Full Major Status in Modern Dance OR Department Consent.
  • 1.00 - 5.00 Credits

    This course will provide students with an introduction to the technology used in supporting dance related activities in both marketing and art-making, including web design and video shooting and editing. Prerequisites: Full Major Status in Modern Dance OR Department Consent.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course consolidates and develops the knowledge and practice of Screendance, and provides a springboard for in-depth exploration of concepts and practices of choreographic composition for the screen. It builds on the Introduction to Screendance class by offering opportunities for further investigation of the creative possibilities of Screendance, its context, and potentials.