Bachelor of Arts - Dance

Curriculum Map

* Fulfillment requires completion of both courses

1. Students will be to physically and intellectually demonstrate mastery of dance technique, vocabulary, and compositional skills.
2. Students will be able to critically interpret, analyze and synthesize issues and topics of the world dance scene and be able to integrate cross-disciplinary knowledge.
3. Students will be able to participate actively and collaboratively within the global community and be able to extend oneself beyond the dance community.

1. Students must demonstrate proficiency in written communication.
2. Students must demonstrate proficiency in a foreign language through the intermediate level.
3. Students must become informed global citizens and gain intercultural awareness through a study abroad experience.
4. Students must become acquainted with different ages, societies, and cultures and learn how to use a variety of historical sources.
5. Students must be able to reason abstractly and appreciate the elegance of abstract structure.
6. Students must understand the methods of scientific discovery and experimental design.
7. Students must acquire problem-solving and research capability by identifying, locating, evaluating, and effectively using information.
8. Students must be able to analyze and understand the creative process, assimilate experience, and communicate it.
9. Students must be able to interpret words, images, objects, and/or actions that are expressions of human culture.
10. Students must understand the complex nature of social structures and/or human relationships that involve issues of inequality and difference.
11. Students must explore ecological, policy, social, cultural, and/or historical dimensions of human relationship to the environment.