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DANC 176 Body Pathways I
1.5 credits 33.75 hours
100 level undergraduate course
Body Pathways I is a core course in the first year Foundation Series designed to introduce students to the following: conditioning & assessment; awareness for alignment, placement and strength; experiential anatomy; and varying somatic practices for sustaining the body in dance. Informed by somatic principles, the course offers physical practices alongside detailed explanations of body mechanics. This course provides students with ongoing and consistent body assessment tools that will keep them dancing in a healthier, stronger way throughout their careers in dance.
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 177 Body Pathways II
1.5 credits 33.75 hours
100 level undergraduate course
Body Pathways II, part two of a two-part core course in the first year Foundation Series, is designed to further introduce students to: conditioning and assessment; awareness for alignment, placement and strength; experiential anatomy; and varying somatic practices for sustaining the body in dance. Informed by somatic principles, the course offers physical practices alongside detailed explanations of body mechanics. This course provides students with ongoing and consistent body assessment tools that will keep them dancing in a healthier, stronger way throughout their careers in dance.
Prerequisites DANC*176
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 181 Student Choreography Workshop I
1.5 credits 45.0 hours
100 level undergraduate course
This course is an introduction to choreographic process. Students will expand their ideas of choreography through participating in compositional exercises, discussions and critical feedback sessions while creating choreographic studies of their own.
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 182 Languaging Dance, Thinking Choreographically
1 credit 22.5 hours
100 level undergraduate course
This course introduces dance making through the study of choreographic methodologies and strategies. Students will explore the work of contemporary artists who approach choreography as practice and research. Topics including race, gender, spectatorship, protest, and social justice will be discussed and will situate how language informs practice. Students will begin to create choreographic studies based on individual and collaborative research.
Prerequisites DANC*180
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 183 Introduction to Improvisation Performance Practice
1.5 credits 33.75 hours
100 level undergraduate course
This class introduces basic concepts of improvisation through the lens of maker and performer. Students will engage in solo and group improvised practice to encourage risk taking and broaden movement choices. Scores are introduced to expand conceptual ideas of ensemble dancing while collaborating in real time and space.
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 184 Languaging Dance, Thinking Choreographically
1.5 credits 33.75 hours
100 level undergraduate course
This course introduces dance making through the study of choreographic methodologies and strategies. Students will explore the work of contemporary artists who approach choreography as practice and research. Topics including race, gender, spectatorship, protest, and social justice will be discussed and will situate how language informs practice. Students will begin to create choreographic studies based on individual and collaborative research.
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 196 First-Year Performance Workshop
1.5 credits 45.0 hours
100 level undergraduate course
The First-Year Performance Workshop, the capstone of the first year, offers students the opportunity to make important connections between their studio practice and Thinking, Making & Doing coursework through ensemble crafting in the studio and staged performance. The First-Year Performance Workshop is designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in both the making and performing of dance works.
Open to majors in the School of Dance only.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 198 Selected Topics in Dance
1 - 3 credits undefined hours
100 level undergraduate course
The topic will change by semester according to the expertise of the faculty and visiting artists, leaving room in the curriculum for emerging forms. These courses combine research and practice, employ strategies that combine historical inquiry within contemporary dance making and seek to provide new intersecting pedagogical practices.
This course may be repeated for credit.
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DANC 235 Costume Design & Construction for Dance
2 credits 45.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
This course introduces the fundamental principles of costume design and construction for stage productions. Through the analysis of music, movement, color texture, light and mood, the student will develop a knowledge of the various elements of effective costuming. Students will study types of fabric and costume construction methods through a series of class projects. They will develop the skills to create design ideas in collaboration with choreographers, performers, and directors. This course carries an additional fee.
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
$40 materials fee
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 237 Tools: Digital Dance Making
1.5 credits 33.75 hours
200 level undergraduate course
This course is designed to equip students with an introductory understanding of how to produce a digital dance work. Students will learn basic editing in Adobe Premiere, study visual framing and composition, and explore non-linear and abstract narrative structures. Material and discursive references will broaden students’ understanding of digital dance. With short weekly projects and peer critique, we will become more perceptive of how and when to use specific tools and enhance our digital projects.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 241 Studio Practice
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
This second-year course will rotate through techniques, styles, faculty, and visiting artists. Each five weeks of the term, a new practice is introduced. Continuous advancement and development is provided through this 5 week module sequence.
Open to majors in the School of Dance only.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 242 Studio Practice
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
This second-year course will rotate through techniques, styles, faculty, and visiting artists. Each five weeks of the term, a new practice is introduced. Continuous advancement and development is provided through this 5 week module sequence.
Prerequisites DANC*241 or DANC*241M
Open to majors in the School of Dance only.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 243 Studio Practice
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
This second-year course is situated in curricular dialogue with a range of studio practices. Each five weeks of the term, a new practice is introduced. Continuous advancement and development is provided through this 5 week module sequence.
Open to majors in the School of Dance only.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 244 Studio Practice
3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
This second-year course is situated in curricular dialogue with a range of studio practices. Each five weeks of the term, a new practice is introduced. Continuous advancement and development is provided through this 5 week module sequence.
Prerequisites DANC*243 or DANC*243M
Open to majors in the School of Dance only.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 251 Critical Dance Studies 1
3 credits 45.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
The study of the interaction between dance and the society in which it develops, emphasizing the changing role and nature of dance. Critical Dance Studies 1 attempts to go as far back as history can go, examining dance as an important part of culture in the form of ritual and ceremony, and looking at its transition into the marketplace.
Prerequisites WRIT*102, WRIT*102H, or DANC*150
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
This course can fulfill a discipline history elective, critical studies elective, or general elective requirement.
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DANC 270 Body Pathways Movement Lab
1 credit 22.5 hours
200 level undergraduate course
This course, taught in cycles, reinforces the ideas and perspectives introduced in the Body
Pathway coursework. It emphasizes the study of somatics alongside anatomy and kinesiology
through the practice of movement and hands-on investigation. Students will extend their
understanding of studio practice and deepen their somatic awareness.
Prerequisites DANC*174 and DANC*175
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 271 Intermediate Pilates Mat
1 credit 22.5 hours
200 level undergraduate course
A continuation of Pilates Mat Class. The Pilates Method is a series of exercises intended as a complete approach to developing body awareness and easing physicality. It is an exercise-based system that aims to develop the body’s center in order to create a stable core for all types of movement. Intermediate Pilates Mat continues to build strength and flexibility through the practice and study of the practical and conceptual work of founder Joseph Pilates. Exercises are taught in greater depth with a more advanced exploration of the Pilates conditioning system.
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit.
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DANC 272 Introduction to Bartenieff Fundamentals™
1 credits 22.5 hours
200 level undergraduate course
This course introduces students to Bartenieff Fundamentals™, a set of concepts and principles
based upon developmental movement and established by Irmgard Bartenieff to help create
neuromuscular building blocks for efficiency, coordination, and flow of movement. Students will
learn basic Bartenieff exercises in relationship to the concepts of dynamic alignment, breath
support, core support, rotary function, initiation and sequencing, spatial intention,
weight transfer, dynamic intention, and developmental patterning.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit.
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DANC 273 Introduction to the Franklin Method
1 credit 22.5 hours
200 level undergraduate course
The Franklin Method, developed by movement specialist Eric Franklin, teaches dynamic alignment and how to move the body with maximum efficiency to keep the body youthful and energized. In every moment, the ideal combination of limbs, joints, gravity, moving parts, connective tissue, and muscle must be found and directed by the brain and nervous system.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit.
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DANC 274 Experiential Anatomy
1.5 credits 30.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
This course is the study of human anatomy with an emphasis on understanding the skeletal and muscular systems. Students explore the human body through movement exploration, hands-on investigation, the use of imagery and the senses. Students gain a kinetic understanding of, not only what is moving, but also how individual human bodies move. This understanding can lead to greater articulation and accuracy for any artist who utilizes the human form in their artistic expression. The course work is physical and analytical. Artists from all areas of the university are encouraged to enroll.
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit.
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DANC 276 Body Pathways Movement Lab
1.5 credits 33.75 hours
200 level undergraduate course
This course, taught in cycles, reinforces the ideas and perspectives introduced in the Body Pathway coursework. It emphasizes the study of somatics alongside anatomy and kinesiology through the practice of movement and hands-on investigation. Students will extend their understanding of studio practice and deepen their somatic awareness.
Prerequisites DANC*176 and DANC*177
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 281 Student Choreography Workshop II
1.5 credits 45.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
In this course, students will develop an in-depth research practice within the framework of a choreographic workshop. Students will be introduced to compositional strategies that invite them to experiment with and re-imagine spectatorship, spatial design, and virtual platforms. The emphasis of the course is on exploration, process and the sharing of research for feedback and critical discussion.
Prerequisites DANC*181
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 282 Dance Making: Music, Sound, Silence, and Noise
1.5 credits 33.75 hours
200 level undergraduate course
An exploration of music and sound materials in relation to dance making and movement invention.
Requires completion of 12 credits.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 284 Improvisation Performance Practice
1.5 credits 33.75 hours
200 level undergraduate course
This class extends practices studied in Introduction to Improvisation Performance Practice by continuing to examine score-based structures and solo/group improvisations.Students will engage in improvised structures as both director and performer. Site-specific and durational projects will be undertaken to broaden examinations of time and space. Projects in this class will include both individual and collaborative studies.
Prerequisites DANC*180
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 285 Expanded Field in Dance & Performance
1.5 credits 33.75 hours
200 level undergraduate course
Students will be encouraged to consider dance, performance and technology within and alongside
the expanding fields of contemporary art. These labs will be a location where the physical,
social, and theoretical will join. Emphasis on hands-on media and movement projects that push
and pull at the boundaries of how dances get made, where dances happen and (even) why dance
matters in today’s society.
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 286 The Performative Voice in Choreography
1.5 credits 33.75 hours
200 level undergraduate course
This Thinking, Making, Doing (TMD) course focuses on the treatment of the “embodied” voice in relation to choreographic study through individual & group imaginative projects, poetic exploration and in class presentations.
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 288 Duet Forms
1.5 credits 33.75 hours
200 level undergraduate course
This course challenges students to examine the possibilities of the duet form through creating original choreographic studies and/or by studying historic and contemporary duets made by leading choreographers across genres of dance. Students will study ways in which theories of touch, gender, relationality, and aesthetics inform the physicality of partnership and dialogue. Student work will culminate in the presentation of original and/or historic works for the UArts community.
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
Requires completion of 45 credits
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 289 Choreographic Viewpoints
1.5 credits 33.75 hours
200 level undergraduate course
This course furthers the study of foundational choreographic tools that emphasize time, space, theatricality and narrative in relationship to the shaping of movement. Students will develop short compositional studies through the exploration of these viewpoints. Guided discussions and critiques help students develop skills for analysis and interpretation alongside critical readings, viewings and written responses.
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
Requires completion of 45 credits
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 293 Performer as Author
1.5 credits 33.75 hours
200 level undergraduate course
This course will delve into creative practices that propose and acknowledge the role of the dancer as creator. Questions to be addressed: Is it possible to make work primarily from a dancer’s perspective? How do the particular sensibilities of a dancer inform or transform a work? What are the larger implications of revising dancer-choreographer hierarchies and narratives?
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
Requires completion of 45 credits
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 296 Sophomore Performance and Coaching Project
1.5 credits 45.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
This capstone course is designed to be the culmination of the Foundation Series. The course gives students the opportunity to develop and perform new choreographic works with an emphasis on the vast approaches to process that are current and emergent in the expanded field of dance. The course challenges students to develop relationships to performance as research and practice.
Prerequisites DANC*141, DANC*142, DANC*143, and DANC*144
This course may be completed 2 times for credit.
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DANC 297 Sophomore Performance and Coaching Project
1.5 credits 45.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course
This capstone course is designed to be the culmination of the Foundation Series. The course gives students the opportunity to develop and perform new choreographic works with an emphasis on the vast approaches to process that are current and emergent in the expanded field of dance. The course challenges students to develop relationships to performance as research and practice.
Prerequisites DANC*141, DANC*142, DANC*143, and DANC*144
This course may be completed 2 times for credit.
This course is equated with the following courses: DACR*292, DACR*294
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DANC 298 Selected Topics in Dance
1 - 3 credits undefined hours
200 level undergraduate course
The topic will change by semester according to the expertise of the faculty and visiting
artists, leaving room in the curriculum for emerging forms. These courses combine research
and practice, employ strategies that combine historical inquiry within contemporary dance
making and seek to provide new intersecting pedagogical practices.
Prerequisites DANC*150 and DANC*182
This course may be completed 2 times for credit.
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DANC 300 Performance Pedagogies of Dance
1.5 credits 45.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course
PODs offer students the opportunity to make connections through multiple access points, especially in areas of performance. PODs are designed to help students recognize the tools and methodologies used in their own creative work both as performers and as choreographers. Structurally each POD is identified by a unique topic. PODs have required rehearsal times and culminate in a public showing.
Prerequisites DANC*296 and DANC*297
Open to majors in the School of Dance only.
Requires completion of 60 credits.
This course may be repeated for credit.
This course requires permission by the offering program office.
Pass/fail grading only.
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DANC 303 Pointe
1 credit 22.5 hours
300 level undergraduate course
This course develops and refines the technique of dancing ballet en pointe. Students will explore solo variations from the classical repertoire as well as contemporary choreography.
Open to majors in the School of Dance only.
Advanced Course - See Dept.
This course may be repeated for credit.
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DANC 305 Studio Practice
1 credit 22.5 hours
400 level undergraduate course
This course is situated in curricular dialogue with a range of studio practice courses and is open to all School of Dance students.
Prerequisites DANC*242
Open to majors in the School of Dance only.
This course may be repeated for credit.
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DANC 306 Studio Practice
1 credit 22.5 hours
300 level undergraduate course
This course is situated in curricular dialogue with a range of studio practice courses and is open to all School of Dance students.
Prerequisites DANC*242
Open to majors in the School of Dance only.
This course may be repeated for credit.
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DANC 316 Ballet Partnering
1 credit 22.5 hours
300 level undergraduate course
The basic technique of adagio (pas de deux). Students perform major classical works.
Experience Required- See Dept.
This course may be repeated for credit.
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DANC 317 Contemporary Partnering
1 credit 22.5 hours
300 level undergraduate course
This contemporary partnering course utilizes both modern and post-modern dance forms from a non-gendered point of view. Students will work in pairs, trios and small groups. The class will explore lifts, simple holds, and counter-balances. Students will hone each of these skills separately, and then combine them into phrase material. The phrase work may develop into larger choreographic forms.
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
This course may be repeated for credit.
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DANC 319 Classical and Contemporary Variations
1 credit 22.5 hours
300 level undergraduate course
The practice of technical movements and variations from both classical and contemporary ballet repertories.
Open to majors in the School of Dance only.
This course may be repeated for credit.
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DANC 330 Field Study in Dance
1.5 - 3 credits undefined hours
300 level undergraduate course
With the advisement & mentoring of a School of Dance faculty member, students take on studio practice study within the professional training schools in the city of Philadelphia. The study extends the student’s specific career interest. These training centers include PA Ballet and Philadanco, among others.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit.
This course requires permission by the offering program office.
Pass/fail grading only.
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DANC 332 Mentorship: First-Year Performance Workshop
1 credit 30.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course
This course offers Junior and Senior students in the School of Dance the opportunity to mentor first-year students as they move through the process of the First-Year Performance Workshop. Tools for effective mentorship and coaching are shared by the instructors in guided feedback sessions both within First-Year Performance Workshop rehearsals and in individual and group sessions held separately. Each student mentor will be responsible for a cohort of first-year dancers, helping to guide them through the workshop process from the outset of the course through the final performances. Mentorship within the First-Year Performance Workshop is designed to advance a student’s understanding and implementation of the tools and methodologies used in both the making, teaching, coaching, and performing of dance works.
Prerequisites DANC*296 and DANC*297
This course may be completed 2 times for credit.
This course requires permission by the offering program office.
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DANC 336 Dance Management and Entrepreneurship
1.5 credits 22.5 hours
300 level undergraduate course
This course prepares students for leadership in the field through the introduction of practical
and procedural skills to establish, market, manage, and sustain dance in today’s landscape.
Topics including fundraising, financial management, marketing, communication,
development, grant writing, and strategic planning will be examined in relationship to
individual careers, companies, community engagement platforms, educational outreach
projects, creative residencies, and partnerships with cultural institutions.
Prerequisites DANC*182
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 341 Studio Practice
1.5 credits 45.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course
This course is situated in curricular dialogue with a range of studio practice courses. Juniors and seniors in the School of Dance study a variety of techniques incorporating established dance forms as well as new, emerging practices that blur boundaries and share styles. Dancers learn to translate and adapt across forms while focusing on the unique and inherent expressivity of each methodology.
Prerequisites DANC*242 and DANC*244
This course may be repeated for credit.
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DANC 342 Studio Practice
1.5 - 3 credits undefined hours
300 level undergraduate course
This course is situated in curricular dialogue with a range of studio practice courses. Juniors and seniors in the School of Dance study a variety of techniques incorporating established dance forms as well as new, emerging practices that blur boundaries and share styles. Dancers learn to translate and adapt across forms while focusing on the unique and inherent expressivity of each methodology.
Prerequisites DANC*242 and DANC*244
This course may be repeated for credit.
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DANC 351 Critical Dance Studies 2
3 credits 45.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course
The study of the interaction between dance and the society in which it develops, emphasizing the changing role and nature of dance. Critical Dance Studies 2 considers how the development of dance within the 20th and 21st centuries reflect and resist cultural and political bodies through an intersectional and contemporary perspective.
Prerequisites DANC*251
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
This course can fulfill a discipline history elective, critical studies elective, or general elective requirement.
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DANC 353 Body Pathways Research Lab
1 credit 22.5 hours
300 level undergraduate course
Building on foundations introduced and reinforced through Body Pathways I, Body Pathways II, and Body Pathways Movement Lab, this course advances the study of somatics through deepened study in experiential anatomy with emphasis on the connections between somatic practices and studio practices.
Prerequisites DANC*174, DANC*175, and DANC*270
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 355 Body Pathways Research Lab
1.5 credits 33.75 hours
300 level undergraduate course
Building on foundations introduced and reinforced through Body Pathways I, Body Pathways II, and Body Pathways Movement Lab, this course advances the study of somatics through deepened study in experiential anatomy with emphasis on the connections between somatic practices and studio practices.
Prerequisites DANC*270 or DANC*276
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 371 Pilates Mat Certification
1.5 credits 45.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course
In this course, students will learn Pilates Matwork and prepare to safely and successfully instruct Pilates Mat classes. Students who successfully complete the course will earn a certificate of proficiency from the University of the Arts in Pilates Matwork, enabling them to teach Pilates Mat at dance studios, fitness centers, or one on one with clients. Matwork lays the foundation for all comprehensive Pilates certification programs.
Prerequisites DANC*171
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 373 Franklin Method: Art and Science of the Plié Certification
1.5 credits 45.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course
The Franklin Method® is a somatic practice that combines imagery, anatomical study, and movement explorations to reduce stress on one’s body and improve movement patterns. This course is a hands-on, student-centered study of the Franklin Method, most specifically the dynamics of plié, that readies students to lead workshops and classes and integrate the material into their dance practices. Course work includes experiential anatomical study, development of safe and efficient movement practices and utilization of Franklin Method balls and bands for dance specific conditioning, as well as guided student teaching and exams that culminate in an official teaching certificate for the Art and Science of the Plié® from Franklin Method Institute.
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 380 Improvisation Into Choreography
1.5 credits 33.75 hours
300 level undergraduate course
This course examines the processes through which improvisational research and practice shape choreographic structures. Utilizing score-based systems and interfacing with objects, texts and sound, students will generate and develop solo and group choreographic proposals. Discussions and feedback sessions will extend and guide works in process. A final project will be shared in an open showing.
Prerequisites DANC*182
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 381 Collaborative Process and the Choreographic
1.5 credits 33.75 hours
This course will examine how collaborative relationships and dramaturgical practices function across artistic fields. Students will “collaborate” with a contemporary artist of their choice by analyzing their methodologies and body of work, and by building a project that uses this artist’s working process as a point of departure. Students will also act as dramaturges for each other’s processes. A final project will be shared in an open showing.
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
Requires completion of 12 credits
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 382 Solo Studies
1.5 credits 33.75 hours
300 level undergraduate course
Solo Studies is a choreography and performance course that examines and expands possibilities of solo performance. Choreographic material will be generated through research that explores relationships to identity and personal/collective history. Throughout the course, students will be challenged to create multiple solo studies, exploring different methods of creation and sites for performance. Each student will create a final solo project to be performed in an open showing.
Prerequisites DANC*182
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 383 Activism, Social Justice As Choreography
1.5 credits 33.75 hours
300 level undergraduate course
This course introduces students to a wide range of methodologies for linking choreographic practice with the work of social justice and activism. Research will center issues of race, class, gender, sexuality and ability. Students will study artists whose creative output engages questions of politics, protest and social change through an expanded lens of the choreographic. Each student will create a final project that will challenge them to consider strategies of activism and social justice within their own work. Projects will be shared in an open showing.
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
Requires completion of 12 credits
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 384 Choreography and Alternative Media
1.5 credits 33.75 hours
300 level undergraduate course
Students will generate and develop choreographic ideas and material using digital media in ways that multiply, overlap, and continuously blend. Central to the course is each student’s articulation of a set of research questions/prompts that guide their engagement with technology. A final project will be shared in an open showing.
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
Requires completion of 30 credits.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 385 Drawing Lab: Extending the Choreographic
1.5 credits 33.75 hours
300 level undergraduate course
This course engages drawing as a practice that activates critical observations/interventions of space, anatomy and movement. The act of drawing will be used to initiate imaginative possibility: how can drawing lead to choreographic practice that dreams, drafts and makes visible new modes of performance? Elements of drawing such as line, tone, texture, solidity/fluidity, atmosphere, spatial planning/design will be discussed and practiced. Drawing exercises will be carried out as both visual art practices and danced studies. A final project will be shared in an open showing.
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
Requires completion of 30 credits.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 386 Curatorial and Creative Residencies
1.5 credits 22.5 hours
300 level undergraduate course
This course offers students the opportunity to partner with a professional arts-presenting institution to observe first-hand a contemporary example of arts curation. Students will study the history and current methodologies of curation to develop their own curatorial and creative projects. This course is open to students in all majors.
Requires completion of 30 credits.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 388 Before Utterance
1.5 credits 33.75 hours
300 level undergraduate course
This course researches commonalities between pre-semiotic compositional methods of contemporary dance and poetry. Students will begin by looking towards multiple artists in each field and exploring their particular methods of making. As the class considers what initiates designing a conceptual work, students will attempt to find parallels between how and why a work is made. Through this encounter of disciplines, the course poses the following questions: What are the intuitive senses that startle each artist into a channel of expressive form? What do these disciplines share in relationship to time, space, and matter? By experimenting with speed/acceleration, imagery, metaphor, the body, sensation, or the flip-flopping of tenses - recognizable tools that cross between dance and poetry become visible. These experiments will make it possible to view poetry and dance as matching models, despite (or rather because of) the distinction each form makes between how written language and embodiment function as modes of utterance. Ultimately, each student will create a comprehensive practice that will lead to the development of a final project.
Prerequisites DANC*182
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 396 Junior Seminar I
1.5 credits 30.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course
This seminar focuses on the conceptual and gestural frameworks of the choreographic. These frameworks include time, space and context through a lens of multiplicity and criticality. From the writing of personal manifestos to collecting drawings, diagrams, photographs, scores and journal entries, students begin to bring into focus a practice that involves continuous activity and weekly creative encounters. This practice of consistent work (research) yields imaginative directions for each senior project.
Prerequisites DANC*296 and DANC*297
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 397 Junior Seminar II
1.5 credits 30.0 hours
300 level undergraduate course
This seminar is a continuation of Junior Seminar I. Students will begin to translate their ideas into creative projects using different modalities that help to make visible their choreographic and performative gestures.
Prerequisites DANC*396
Open to majors in the School of Dance only.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 398 Selected Topics in Dance
1 - 2 credits undefined hours
300 level undergraduate course
This topic will change by semester according to the expertise of the faculty and visiting artists and leaves room in the curriculum for emerging forms.
This course may be repeated for credit.
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DANC 441 Studio Practice
1.5 credits 45.0 hours
400 level undergraduate course
This course is situated in curricular dialogue with a range of studio practice courses. Juniors and seniors in the School of Dance study a variety of techniques incorporating established dance forms as well as new, emerging practices that blur boundaries and share styles. Dancers learn to translate and adapt across forms while focusing on the unique and inherent expressivity of each methodology.
Prerequisites DANC*341
Open to majors in the School of Dance only.
This course may be repeated for credit.
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DANC 442 Studio Practice
1.5 - 3 credits undefined hours
400 level undergraduate course
This course is situated in curricular dialogue with a range of studio practice courses. Juniors and seniors in the School of Dance study a variety of techniques incorporating established dance forms as well as new, emerging practices that blur boundaries and share styles. Dancers learn to translate and adapt across forms while focusing on the unique and inherent expressivity of each methodology.
Prerequisites DANC*341
Open to majors in the School of Dance only.
This course may be repeated for credit.
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DANC 451 Advanced Readings in Dance History, Theory & Criticism
1.5 - 3 credits undefined hours
400 level undergraduate course
This course will focus on some of the most influential historical and theoretical texts in the field of dance and performance studies. Students will develop skills in archival research and analysis of documentation and live performance.
Prerequisites DANC*251 and DANC*351
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 480 Choreography as Research
1.5 credits 33.75 hours
400 level undergraduate course
Focusing on the further development of research methodologies in and through dance, this course extends ways of thinking about, discussing and making visible the creative processes that render choreography. Students will build choreographic studies leading to a final project and reflect on their processes through in-class critiques. Final works will be shared in an open showing.
Prerequisites Complete 4.5 credits from TMD courses
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 481 Choreography As Research in Performance
1.5 credits 33.75 hours
400 level undergraduate course
This course further examines how performance functions as a research practice within choreographic process. The emphasis of the course is on sharing work multiple times in varied theatrical and non-theatrical frameworks to better understand how creation can be informed by the experience of performance. Students will take an active role in their peers’ work through collaborative participation in each others’ processes and critical feedback/dialogue. A final project will be shared in an open showing.
Prerequisites Complete 4.5 credits from TMD courses
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 482 Improvisation as Research in Performance
1.5 credits 33.75 hours
400 level undergraduate course
This course advances the studies of solo and group improvisational practices as research in performance. Through improvisational exercises, discussions, in-class presentations, readings and critical feedback sessions, this course investigates the theoretical and practical dimensions of improvisation. Students will develop work and present multiple iterations of performance based research over the course of the semester. A final project will be shared in an open showing.
Prerequisites Complete 4.5 credits from TMD courses
Priority enrollment to majors in the School of Dance.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 490 Independent Study
1 - 6 credits 15.0 hours
400 level undergraduate course
Independent Study offers a matriculated student the opportunity to initiate individual research or advanced projects that are beyond the limits of the standard curriculum.
This course may be repeated for credit.
This course requires permission by the offering program office.
This course may not be audited.
This course cannot be taken pass/fail.
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DANC 492 Senior Seminar
1.5 credits 22.5 hours
400 level undergraduate course
This seminar course explores and enacts multidirectional modes of research in and through dance. The course will situate study and practice as a series of lectures, workshops and experiments that ignite processes through notions of collective action, play, citation, and mutual aid. Students will develop written work and performative enactments as well as create social and public platforms for their research and engage in dialogues related to sustainability, equity and possibility within the field of dance.
Prerequisites DANC*397
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 494 Senior Thesis Workshop
2 credits 45.0 hours
400 level undergraduate course
Each student will propose a thesis project, develop goals and objectives for the semester, and present their work. Modes of practicing, situating and expressing thesis project research will be mobilized and extended through ongoing critical dialogue. We will attend to, in practice, the urgent questions facing our lives and the field of dance and performance.
Prerequisites DANC*397
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 498 Selected Topics in Dance
1.5 credits 45.0 hours
400 level undergraduate course
This topic will change by semester according to the expertise of the faculty and visiting artists and leaves room in the curriculum for emerging forms.
Open to majors in the School of Dance only.
This course may be repeated for credit.
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DANC 499 Dance Internship
1 - 12 credits undefined hours
400 level undergraduate course
Internships are a valuable part of a student’s academic experience. By reinforcing and expanding classroom theory and practice, internships enable students to test career choices and gain a greater understanding of the workplace through this initial entry into the professional world. The internship assists students in testing and expanding their professional skills and knowledge, enabling them to make informed career decisions.
Open to majors in the School of Dance only.
Requires completion of 45 credits.
This course requires permission by the offering program office.
Pass/fail grading only.
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DANC 611 Mentored Practice
4 credits 120 hours
600 level graduate course
Students select and schedule weekly practice from a variety of scheduled classes in consultation with core faculty, meet one-on-one every week with a mentor, and meet twice a term as a group. Mentors guide students through the plan that may include a combination of techniques, technologies and methodologies. The format provides opportunity for varied explorations and choices. Inquiry and experimentation is encouraged.
Open only to MFA in Dance majors.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit.
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DANC 621 Individualized Practice
2 credits 30.0 hours
600 level graduate course
Students develop and schedule their own weekly creative practice using student-initiated resources or scheduled classes. They are expected to engage in independent work, meet the equivalent once each week with mentor, create an archive of the experiences, and find innovative ways to share both resources and experiences with classmates at the end of the course. The format provides opportunity for varied explorations and choices. Inquiry and experimentation is encouraged.
Open only to MFA in Dance majors.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit.
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DANC 622 International Individualized Practice Lab
2 credits 30.0 hours
600 level graduate course
This course allows students to self design course work by combining topic LABS from the Somatic & Movement LAB and the Critical Studies LABS to meet required hours. The LABS take the form of a series of workshops, and include both lecture/discussion and studio formats. The LABS create an opportunity for students to be in direct dialogue with a variety of international practitioners, scholars and artists/choreographers.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit.
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DANC 651 Somatic Practice & Movement Lab
2 credits 30.0 hours
600 level graduate course
Students are given opportunities to deepen their understanding of and relationship to movement practices that include somatic practices, exercise modalities, and dance science. The LABS take the form of a series of workshops, and include both lecture/discussion and studio formats. The LABS create an opportunity for students to be in direct dialogue with a variety of somatic and movement science practitioners. (examples include: Yoga, Feldenkrais Methodologies, Body-Mind Centering, and Alexander Technique)
Open only to MFA in Dance majors.
This course may be repeated for credit.
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DANC 652 Critical Practices Lab
2 credits 30.0 hours
600 level graduate course
Students are given opportunities to consider and locate dance within emerging performance cultures, practices and art world contexts. The LABS take the form of a series of workshops, and include both lecture/discussion and studio formats. The LABS create an opportunity for students to be in direct dialogue with a variety of internationally recognized artist, scholars, choreographers, curators and movement practioners.
Open only to MFA in Dance majors.
This course may be repeated for credit.
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DANC 653 Individualized Practice Lab
2 credits 30.0 hours
600 level graduate course
This course allows students to self design course work by combining topic LABS from the Somatic & Movement LAB and the Pedagogic Practice LABS to meet required hours. The LABS take the form of a series of workshops, and include both lecture/discussion and studio formats. The LABS create an opportunity for students to be in direct dialogue with a variety of practitioners, scholars and pedagogs.
Open only to MFA in Dance majors.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit.
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DANC 661 Critical Studies in History & Theory
3 credits 45.0 hours
600 level graduate course
This course exams a selected range of topics in contemporary dance, emphasizing the relations between dance, critical theory, critical writing and culture. Students will engage in theoretical inquiry and study in the dance-related areas of history and dance criticism in a variety of contexts, from the popular to the scholarly. Weekly lectures provide overviews while both scholars and working artists are invited to give lectures, seminars and/or workshops on their research interests and projects.
Open only to MFA in Dance majors.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit.
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DANC 662 History, Theory & Criticism II
3 credits 45.0 hours
600 level graduate course
Part two of a two-part course examines 20th and 21st century dance history, emphasizing the relations between dance, critical theory, critical writing and culture. Students will engage in theoretical inquiry and study in the dance-related areas of history and dance criticism in a variety of contexts, from the popular to scholarly. Weekly lectures provide overviews, while critics, dance historians, and artists are invited to give lectures, seminars, and/or workshops on their research interests and scholarship.
Open only to MFA in Dance majors.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 663 Research as Action Lab
1 credit 15.0 hours
600 level graduate course
Students work individually and in small groups with a faculty advisor to present topic driven presentations. These public ‘actions’ are open to the University community, and the public at large. Presentations are developed alongside, and as an extension of, class and studio work.
Open only to MFA in Dance majors.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit.
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DANC 664 Languaging the Contemporary
2 credits 30.0 hours
600 level graduate course
A writing workshop: this course introduces critical insight into themes, theories, artists’ writings, creative processes and aesthetic approaches that have been essential to the transformation of art and dance into a global practice. Daily writing assignments, lectures, discussions and assigned readings are augmented by artists, curators, and scholars who engage with students in a variety of formats, from traditional lecture/artist talks to performative lectures.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 671 Collaborative Pedagogies
2 credits 30.0 hours
600 level graduate course
Designed to expand potentialities through direct interplay with practitioners within communities (both local and international), students will learn about the possibilities of shared study, scholarship, and fields of interest. This course will set the ground-work for Study Groups. The course challenges students to examine where their practice intersects directly with the public.
Open only to MFA in Dance majors.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 672 International Graduate Seminar I
2 credits 30.0 hours
600 level graduate course
This course introduces the ongoing process of inquiry into what it means to do research in a creative practice, such as dance, within the framework of an international festival environment and within scholarship outside the US. A wide range of current orientations, reflections, writings, ways of thinking and forms of presentations will be discussed. Students learn about different research methods outside of the arts, and are encouraged to apply some of these processes to their own artistic/creative processes and practices. How might dance practice and theory mutually engage? What might be termed ‘practice as research?’ How might choreography be a theoretical act (Foster)? How might theory and methods be transported from one subject matter to another (Foster)? How might the relationship between the written word and the moving body be examined and explored? How do we test, analyze, study or diagram our processes? A seminar format, this course will include an in-class viewing performances, sharing experiences, as well as the formation of a student curated course archive.
Open only to MFA in Dance majors.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 673 International Graduate Seminar II
2 credits 30.0 hours
600 level graduate course
This seminar is designed to assist the students in developing their writing and critical performance reading skills in preparation for their thesis work. Using artists’ writings and performances to activate dialogue and develop a shared common language within each MFA cohort, this shared inquiry connects a range of literary, creative and artistic works to enable students, as producing artists, to respond to and situate their own practice within a larger field of discourse. Through conversation, reading, writing and critique both group and individual sessions explore how writing can be imagined and produced. How might writing deepen both action (doing) and reflection?
Open only to MFA in Dance majors.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 674 Graduate Seminar in Residence I
2 credits 30.0 hours
600 level graduate course
This practiced based seminar focuses on current developments within the field of dance and performance around urgent issues of presentation, archiving, scoring, documentation and collecting. Working within and alongside ideas of sculpture, conceptual art and design students will build models and transcribe their choreographic ideas into new media as a way to re-imagine and re-tool.
Open only to MFA in Dance majors.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit.
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DANC 675 Graduate Seminar in Residence II
2 credits 30.0 hours
600 level graduate course
Students will gather to discuss and reflect on practices, research as action and thesis developments.
Prerequisites DANC*674
This course may be completed 2 times for credit.
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DANC 680 Performative Methodologies
2 credits 60.0 hours
600 level graduate course
This studio-based course is a venue for the critique of students’ creative work and practice. It is designed to integrate the various components of the MFA program (Practice, Dance in Context, Practice in Context and Grad Seminar) by including the discourse of the coursework as well as focused work on presenting and archiving intentionally different and diverse performative methodologies.
Open only to MFA in Dance majors.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
This course cannot be taken pass/fail.
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DANC 681 Thesis Workshop
2 credits 30.0 hours
600 level graduate course
This studio-based course is a venue for the culmination and digitizing of students’ thesis project work. It is designed to integrate the various components of the thesis project into the research catalog to include the artist’s book and the thesis collection/archive.
Open only to MFA in Dance majors.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit.
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DANC 682 Study Cycle I
2 credits 30.0 hours
600 level graduate course
Part one of a two part course, this portion of the study cycle provides students with seminars, lectures, workshops, and performances, as well as an opportunity to meet and become acquainted with both faculty mentors, community partners, and student peers. Locations provide a space for important networking, support, and the space to prepare for and initiate the program.
Open only to MFA in Dance majors.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 683 Study Cycle II
2 credits 30.0 hours
600 level graduate course
Part two of a two-part course, this portion of the study cycle provides students with seminars, lectures, workshops, and performances, as well as an opportunity to reconnect and share thesis project directions, portfolio developments, and field study updates. Locations provide a space for shared learning, the sharing of resources, and the collective developing of curated thesis platforms.
Prerequisites DANC*682
Open only to MFA in Dance majors.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 695 Study Group I
2 credits 45.0 hours
600 level graduate course
Part one of a two-part course, students, in consultation with faculty mentors & advisors, will choose their own Study Group and work to develop a Study Group plan that takes place over the term.
Prerequisites DANC*671
Open only to MFA in Dance majors.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 696 Study Group II
2 credits 45.0 hours
600 level graduate course
Part two of a two-part course sequence. Students, in consultation with faculty mentors & advisors, will choose a study group and work to develop a Study Group plan that takes place over the term.
Prerequisites DANC*671
Open only to MFA in Dance majors.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 699 Topics: Dance
1 - 6 credits 0.0 hours
600 level graduate course
Graduate students may register for upper-level undergraduate liberal arts courses and studio electives for graduate credit. Graduate students are expected to contribute at a higher level in the classroom and have additional assignments (readings, papers, etc.) in order to be granted graduate credit. Students are advised to select an area of study that broadens or intensifies their background in the arts, education, and related disciplines. Often this work contributes directly to the preparation of the graduate project proposal. In order to register for an upper-level undergraduate course and receive credit, the student must submit a completed special topics/independent study form to the Office of the Registrar.
This course may be repeated for credit.
This course requires permission by the offering program office.
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DANC 711 Thesis Practice
2 credits 30.0 hours
700 level graduate course
Students work to develop and articulate independent creative practices that emerge alongside and within their thesis work. Thesis mentors guide students through the reflective, critical processes. Students will find innovative ways to share their processes with classmates throughout the course.
Open only to MFA in Dance majors.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit.
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DANC 721 Thesis Forms: Thinking Partner
2 credits 30.0 hours
700 level graduate course
Thesis Forms: Thinking Partner is one of the capstone experiences of the MFA program. Students propose, plan, rehearse, discuss and develop new work. A synthesis of the program’s coursework, this original research is two-part: a digital catalog that includes written work and a public sharing. Thesis work develops under the direction of a thesis thinking partner.
Prerequisites DANC*661 or DANC*662
Open only to MFA in Dance majors.
This course may be completed 2 times for credit.
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DANC 722 Thesis Forms: Artist’s Book & Research As Action
2 credits 22.5 hours
700 level graduate course
The development of the artist’s book happens under the direction of a thesis thinking partner.
Prerequisites DANC*661 or DANC*662
Open only to MFA in Dance majors.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 730 Portfolio I
6 credits 90.0 hours
700 level graduate course
During this course, students will begin to review, organize and reflect on their extensive body of professional work in the field of dance. The portfolio is developed to include artist statement, cv, written examination of their work, press & public reviews, and a list of any grants, honoriums and/or fellowships. Students will be encouraged to find innovative ways to share their work both online and on paper.
Prerequisites DANC*661 or DANC*662
Open only to low-residency MFA in Dance majors.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DANC 731 Portfolio II
6 credits 90.0 hours
700 level graduate course
The continuation of extensive review of professional work from Portfolio I, concluding with public artist talk. Portfolio developed to include artist statement, cv, written examination of work, press & public reviews, and a list of any grants, honoriums and/or fellowships. The presentation will take the form of a one hour artist talk. Students will be required to attend artist talks of their classmates.
Prerequisites DANC*730
Open only to low-residency MFA in Dance majors.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DESN 111 Drawing As Seeing And Meaning
3 credits 90.0 hours
100 level undergraduate course
Drawing is a mechanism for seeing and reacting to the world with greater clarity and understanding. This course is designed to develop the student’s ability to see, record, describe, and communicate through direct observational drawing. Assigned projects will explore process as well as the formal elements of line, gesture, space, scale, texture, shape, and tonal structure using a variety of drawing materials including pencil, charcoal, pen-and-ink and wash, among others. Projects range from the figure and still life to perspective and the environment. Students will keep a sketchbook to document visual explorations and thoughts outside the classroom.
Priority enrollment to School of Design majors.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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DESN 114 Design Process, Theory and Communication
3 credits 90.0 hours
100 level undergraduate course
In this course, students explore the form and function of artifacts through the development of systems, services, organizations, and creative thinking processes. Coursework will initiate student application of design elements and principles, gestalt theory, and color theory and strengthen the ability to visually communicate concept, theme, emotion, and narrative. Through a combination of studio projects, exercises, workshops, and readings, students develop a common critical vocabulary for design thinking, making, and discourse. This course is structured to promote the interaction between design majors, encourage cross-disciplinary activity, and showcase professional possibilities in the Freshman Design Forum.
Priority enrollment to School of Design majors.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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