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Master of Arts in Dance
(10.5 semester course credits, 7 at the graduate level)
Prerequisites:
The following prerequisites may be taken concurrently with other course work if not already completed elsewhere.
DNC 133 Dance Kinesiology (1)
DNC 174 Ballet History from the 16th Through the 19th Centuries (.5–1)
Required:
History/Theory (2 course credits):
DNC 265 Modern to Contemporary Performance: History, Theory, and Practice (1)
DNC 288 Critical Acts: Dancing Strategies, Theories, and Contexts (1)
Seminars (Seminars in other fine arts departments, with approval from dance faculty, may apply.) Select courses from the following to equal 3 course credits:
DNC 176 Dance Cultures (1)
DNC 291 Early Modern Women: Western Dance Pioneers (.5–1)
DNC 293 Contemporary Issues in Choreography (.5–1)
DNC 298 Dance Theatre in Traditional and Contemporary Performing Arts (.5–1)
Technique (1 course credit) selected from:
DNC 014 (114) Techniques in International Dance Styles: Selected Form (.25)
DNC 015 Jazz (.25)
DNC 016 (116) African Haitian and Dunham Technique (.25)
DNC 101 Elementary Ballet (.25)
DNC 103 Intermediate Ballet (.25)
DNC 105 Elementary Modern Dance (.25)
DNC 107 Intermediate Modern Dance (.25–.5) or
DNC 109 Advanced Modern Dance (.25–.5)
DNC 113 Somatic Arts (.25)
All students must take .25–.5 course credit per semester, minimum of two class sessions per week, for four semesters. Two semesters must include modern technique.
Note: .25 credit equals two technique class sessions per week; .5 credit equals four or five class sessions per week.
Thesis (2 course credits):
DNC 250A Thesis: Research Project (.5)
DNC 250B Thesis: Writing (1.5)
(spring/fall sequence)
And select 2.5 more graduate or upper-division undergraduate course credits from the following:
DNC 134 Dance Improvisation (.5)
DNC 152 Repertory Dance Lab (.5)
DNC 157 Music for the Dancer (1)
DNC 159 Dance Production (.25)
DNC 179 Laban Studies (.5)
DNC 181 Solo Choreography (.5)
DNC 231 Dance for the Camera (.5)
DNC 243 Independent Project (.5–1)
DNC 253 Theory of Teaching Dance (.5)
DNC 254 Laboratory Teaching of Dance (.5)
DNC 270 Seminar in Interdisciplinary Collaboration (5.–1)
DNC 293 Contemporary Issues in Choreography (.5–1)
DNC 296 Live and Media Performance (.5–1)
DNC 297 Ideas about Space (.5)
DNC 298 Dance Theatre in Traditional and Contemporary Performing Arts (.5–1)
Once a student has applied to and is accepted to the MA course of study she/he is not eligible to change her/his dance degree tracks mid-stream without reapplying to the MFA program.
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