Academic Learning Compact - Dance
The Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance provides extensive training and skills in contemporary dance and choreography with four interlocking areas of 21st century dance study: choreography and performance, intercultural dance studies, dance and medicine, and dance theatre. Dance is studied as a major performing art that impacts artistic, cultural, intellectual and social spheres.
Additional information is available from your major's website.
Before Graduating You Must
- Develop a senior project for faculty evaluation.
- Satisfy the Florida statutes for the College-Level Academic Skills Requirement.
- Complete requirements for the baccalaureate degree, as determined by faculty.
Skills You Will Acquire in the Major (SLOs)
- Proficiency in modern dance, ballet, jazz and world dance with mastery in modern dance.
- Knowledge of appropriate traditional and innovative techniques.
- Competency through public performance.
- Ability to develop and realize a composition for public performance.
- Abilities to develop creative processes and innovative contributions to dance; to develop visual and aural perceptions as related to performance quality, movement composition and production design.
- Ability to understand and evaluate contemporary thinking about dance and related arts.
- A critical sense of what defines 'serious' work in dance and the ability to recognize ideas and goals embodied in the work.
- An informed view of the interaction of art and society in the 21st century.
- Ability to make informed assessments about quality in dance.
| Courses | Content | Critical Thinking | Communication | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SLO 1 | SLO 2 | SLO 3 | SLO 4 | SLO 5 | SLO 6 | SLO 7 | SLO 8 | SLO 9 | |
| Core | |||||||||
| DAA 2381 | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| DAA 3548 | X | ||||||||
| DAN 2100 | X | X | X | X | |||||
| DAN 4124 | X | X | X | X | |||||
| Major | |||||||||
| DAA 2104 | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
| DAA 2204 | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
| DAA 2504 | X | X | X | X | |||||
| DAA 2610 | X | X | X | ||||||
| DAA 2611 | X | X | X | ||||||
| DAA 3108 | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
| DAA 3208 | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
| DAA 3508 | X | X | X | X | |||||
| DAA 3614 | X | X | X | ||||||
| DAA 3615 | X | X | X | ||||||
| DAA 4110 | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
| DAA 4210 | X | X | X | X | X | ||||
| DAA 4510 | X | X | X | X | |||||
| DAA 4920 | X | X | X | ||||||
| DAE 4300 | X | X | |||||||
| DAN 4180 | X | ||||||||
| DAN 4959 | X | X | X | X | |||||
| THE 4950 | X | X | |||||||
| TPA 3214 | X | X | |||||||