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Twin Cities Campus
Dance MinorTheatre Arts & Dance Dept
College of Liberal Arts
The Dance Minor invites students to investigate movement as a simultaneously physical, creative, and intellectual study of dance in global contexts. The minor allows students to support their other academic studies by integrating physical learning, creativity, and research into their educational career. After students take foundational requirements, they can design their own pathway through the Dance Program's four interconnected pillars: Technique/Practice, Dance-Making/Composition, Dance Studies/Theory and History, and Performance and Design. Pre-designed pathways are also available options for students.
Course offerings include dance making/choreography, Theorizing Dancing Bodies, Dance History, Music for Dance, performance & production, and technique training in Hip Hop/Urban Street Styles, American Jazz, African Diasporic Movement, Global Contemporary Dance, Tap, Ballet, among many others.
This minor integrates the Dance Program's values of movement as meaning-making, thoughtful creativity, and social justice practice.
PROGRAM ADVISING: Because the Dance Program curriculum has many sequential courses, auditions and placement requirements, prospective Dance Minors should meet with the Dance Program Advisor to develop a course plan that supports their learning goals and efficient progress towards graduation. Whether a student has years of dance experience or is completely new to formal dance training, the Dance Program has Dance courses designed to meet students at whatever level of dance exposure, background or engagement they are at and challenge them from that point in their academic career.
A student may earn a B.A. or B.F.A. in Dance, or a Minor in Dance, but not both.
Program Delivery
This program is available:
Minor Requirements
Technique Course(s)
Take 1-2 courses from the following, totaling 2 credits:
DNCE 1001 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 1
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1010 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 3
(1.0-2.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1020 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 4
(1.0-2.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1101 - Ballet Technique 1
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1102 - Ballet Technique 2
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1110 - Ballet Technique 3
(2.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1120 - Ballet Technique 4
(2.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1201 - Jazz Technique 1
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1202 - Jazz Technique 2
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1210 - Jazz Technique 3
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1220 - Jazz Technique 4
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1301 - Tap Technique 1
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1302 - Tap Technique 2
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1343 - Urban & Street Dance Forms 1: Introduction
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1344 - Urban & Street Dance Forms 2: Advanced Foundation and Histories
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1349 - Contact Improvisation
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1351 - African Diasporic Movement 1
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1353 - African Diasporic Movement 3
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1354 - African Diasporic Movement 4
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 3301 - Tap Technique 3
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 3302 - Tap Technique 4
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 3341 - Urban & Street Dance Forms 3: Emerging Scholar
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 3342 - Urban & Street Dance Forms 4: Scholar
(1.0 cr)
Required Courses
Dance Studies
Take 1 course totaling 3 credits:
Take exactly 1 course(s) totaling exactly 3 credit(s) from the following:
·
DNCE 3401W - Dance History 1
[GP, WI]
(3.0 cr)
·
DNCE 3411 - Dance and Popular Culture: Choreographing Race, Class, and Gender
[DSJ]
(3.0 cr)
·
DNCE 5493 - Choreographing Social Justice: Staging "Equitable" Choreographies
(3.0 cr)
Dance Composition
Take exactly 1 course(s) totaling exactly 3 credit(s) from the following:
·
DNCE 3601 - Dance Composition 1
(3.0 cr)
Electives
Take 3 or more courses, totaling at least 7 to 9 credits; at least 3 credits at the 3xxx-5xxx level:
DNCE 1001 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 1
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1010 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 3
(1.0-2.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1020 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 4
(1.0-2.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1040 - Modern Dance Partnering Technique
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1101 - Ballet Technique 1
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1102 - Ballet Technique 2
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1110 - Ballet Technique 3
(2.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1120 - Ballet Technique 4
(2.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1201 - Jazz Technique 1
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1202 - Jazz Technique 2
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1210 - Jazz Technique 3
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1301 - Tap Technique 1
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1302 - Tap Technique 2
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1327 - Argentine Tango
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1331 - Yoga
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1332 - Yoga for Dancers
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1343 - Urban & Street Dance Forms 1: Introduction
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1344 - Urban & Street Dance Forms 2: Advanced Foundation and Histories
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1345 - Alexander Technique for Movement Artists
(2.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1349 - Contact Improvisation
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1351 - African Diasporic Movement 1
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1353 - African Diasporic Movement 3
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1354 - African Diasporic Movement 4
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 1701 - Freshman/Sophomore Repertory
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 3010 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 5
(2.0 cr)
or
DNCE 3020 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 6
(2.0 cr)
or
DNCE 3110 - Ballet Technique 5
(2.0 cr)
or
DNCE 3120 - Ballet Technique 6
(2.0 cr)
or
DNCE 3301 - Tap Technique 3
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 3302 - Tap Technique 4
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 3334 - Introduction to Dance/Movement Therapy
(2.0 cr)
or
DNCE 3341 - Urban & Street Dance Forms 3: Emerging Scholar
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 3402W - Dance History 2
[WI]
(3.0 cr)
or
DNCE 3411 - Dance and Popular Culture: Choreographing Race, Class, and Gender
[DSJ]
(3.0 cr)
or
DNCE 3433 - Articulate Body
(3.0 cr)
or
DNCE 3602 - Dance Composition 2
(3.0 cr)
or
DNCE 3621 - Dance Production I
(2.0 cr)
or
DNCE 3622 - Dance Production II
(2.0 cr)
or
DNCE 3700 - Performance
(1.0 cr)
or
DNCE 4443 - Theorizing Dancing Bodies
(3.0 cr)
or
DNCE 4601 - Dance Composition 3
(3.0 cr)
or
DNCE 5010 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 7
(2.0 cr)
or
DNCE 5020 - Modern/Contemporary Dance Technique 8
(2.0 cr)
or
DNCE 5443 - Theorizing Dancing Bodies
(3.0 cr)
or
DNCE 5493 - Choreographing Social Justice: Staging "Equitable" Choreographies
(3.0 cr)
or
DNCE 5700 - Performance
(1.0-2.0 cr)
or
DNCE 5858 - Dance Pedagogy
(3.0-4.0 cr)
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