Undergraduate program


Undergraduate program

Undergraduate program usually include three degrees: Dance Minor, Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) and the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.).
The bachelor of fine arts (B.F.A.) and the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) prepare students for careers as dancers and choreographers; but the B.A. prepares students for careers in dance education, administration, and therapy and the B.F.A. needs extra work in performance or choreography.


  1. Dance Major B.A. (Bachelor of Arts)

    2. The B.A. program in dance studies is oriented and designed to permit the students to nurture and discover his/her interest in dance to determine his/her potential as a dance technician, committed to the student's intellectual, artistic, and professional growth; the degree allows the students investigate the wide range of a liberal arts and give the opportunity to explore the relationship of dance to other fields of study from various perspectives: kinesthetic, scientific, historic, aesthetic, compositional, musical, technological and ethnographic. Ballet and modern dance are the primary techniques, along with classes in non-western dance forms, somatic practices, and jazz.



  2. Dance Major B.F.A. (Bachelor of Fine Arts)

    3. The Bachelor of Fine Arts is also known as Bachelor of Creative Arts or B.C.A.
    The B.F.A. in dance is a professionally oriented degree which needs a more in-depth study in technique, composition, performance and dance academics. The B.F.A. is a professional education in the visual or performing arts, which assumes that students are sincerely interested in the process of performing or choreographing and desire to make it their career; this degree is a highly selective program which trains specially committed, disciplined, and talented students to the level at which they might increase entry to a principal graduate, conservatory or M.F.A. program, or directly enter one of the areas of the dancing profession.
    The B.F.A. is usually considered a four-year degree.



  3. Dance Minor

    4. The dance minor is focused in modern dance and is centered on performance, technique, concert production and choreography. The Minor in Dance facilitates formal recognition for those students registered in Dance classes already open to non-majors. The dance minor is offered for students who wish to explore the art of dance in all its forms but not wanting to specialize.

    Upon completion of this minor, the student will be able to pick from a diversity of career opportunities such as teaching, performance, choreography, production, and studio or have it apply to their major.

     

     

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