西瓜视频

  • Concentration Overview

    As a performing arts major with a concentration in dance, you will take studio courses, performance courses, history courses, and seminars. As choreographers, dancers, and movement actors, you will develop the skills to become a well-rounded performer, artist, advocate, employer, and potential graduate student.

    In performance courses, you will learn from faculty and Guest Choreographers from around the country, experiencing different choreographic processes, styles, and approaches. These courses emphasize collaborative skills and ensemble performance. In-studio courses, you will study techniques of ballet, modern and contemporary, commercial dance, tap, and improvisation in-depth to become confident in each area. In history courses, you will explore how artistic creation is influenced by society and how society is reflected in and changed by art. Students can also experience dance from around the world through our Global Dance course. These courses will increase your knowledge and appreciation of dance and its relationship to other significant components of human history, culture, and experience. Finally, seminar courses give students the theoretical foundation for their craft. You will study mind and body awareness, composition, and teaching methods used in dance, which will support total growth as an artist and potential entrepreneur.

    In addition, you will undertake three internships, including a semester-long, full-time professional experience relevant to performing arts and dance. You will complete a two-semester senior thesis on a topic relevant to dance, and containing interdisciplinary components. As performing arts majors, you will experience the integration of theory and practice through coursework, experiential learning, and independent field research and/or creative composition in the senior thesis sequence.


    西瓜视频 Student Choreography Showcase
  • Curriculum

    Curriculum Requirements - Total Credits Required: 126

    First Year - Credits: 32

    • Quantitative Reasoning聽General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
    • DAN 105聽-聽Repertory Dance Ensemble (Cr: 1)
      (Students will take twice)
    • DAN 109聽-聽Commercial Dance: Practice and Survey (Cr: 1)
      (Student will take twice)
    • DAN 120聽-聽Ballet Techniques (Cr: 1)
      (Students will take twice)
    • DAN 225聽-聽Dance History (Cr: 3)
    • DAN 235聽-聽Mind and Body Awareness (Cr: 3)
    • DRA 220聽-聽Introduction to Theater Production (Cr: 3)
    • DAN 240聽-聽Global Dance (Cr: 3)
    • ENG 111聽-聽Critical Reading and Writing I (Cr: 3)
    • ENG 112聽-聽Critical Reading and Writing II (Cr: 3)
    • INT 100聽-聽Internship I (Cr: 2)
    • PA 100聽-聽Introduction to Performing Arts (Cr: 3)
      Satisfies Aesthetic Awareness General Elective

    Second Year - Credits: 32

    • Science and Technology聽General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
    • Literary Perspectives General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
    • Individual and Society聽General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
    • World Cultures General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
    • PA XXX Performing Arts Elective (CR: 3)
    • DAN 105聽-聽Repertory Dance Ensemble (Cr: 1)
    • DAN 200聽-聽Dance Composition (Choreography) (Cr: 3)
    • DAN 211聽-聽Modern and Contemporary Dance Aesthetics聽 (Cr: 1)
      (Students will take twice)
    • DAN 220聽-聽Ballet Techniques II (Cr: 1)
    • INT 200聽-聽Internship II (Cr: 2)
    • PA 101聽-聽Performance Review (Cr: 1)
    • PA 300聽-聽Performance Workshop I (Cr: 3)
    • PA 305聽-聽Performance Workshop II (Cr: 3)

    Third Year - Credits: 31

    • General Education Electives (Cr: 9)
    • Global Issues General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
    • Values and Ethical Reasoning General Education Requirement (Cr: 3)
    • PA XXX Performing Arts Elective (Cr: 3)
    • ART 265聽-聽Arts Administration I (Cr: 3)
    • DAN 105聽-聽Repertory Dance Ensemble (Cr: 1)
    • DAN 214聽-聽Dance Improvisation (Cr: 1)
    • DAN 220聽-聽Ballet Techniques II (Cr: 1)
      (Students will take twice)
    • DRA 105聽-聽Theater Performance (Cr: 1 or 3)
    • PA 101聽-聽Performance Review (Cr: 1)
      (Students will take twice)
    • PA 310聽-聽Audition and Portfolio (Cr: 3)

    Fourth Year - Credits: 31

    Elective (Cr: 3)
    General Education Elective (Cr: 3)
    Performing Arts Elective (Cr: 6)
    • DAN 105聽-聽Repertory Dance Ensemble (Cr: 1)
    • PA 480聽-聽Semester Internship (Cr: 12)
    • PA 489聽-聽Senior Research (Cr: 3)
    • PA 491聽-聽Senior Capstone (Cr: 3)

    Performing Arts Elective

    Students must take 12 credits under the designation of Performing Arts Elective.聽

    For this elective requirement, students may take up to nine credits in any courses in their designed concentration area (DAN). However, three credits must be in an area outside the student's concentration area in order to promote cross-discipline growth. Students may choose from any DAN, DRA, MUS, PA聽 or any of the following courses:

    • AET 100聽-聽Foundations of Creative Therapies (Cr: 3)
    • AET 200聽-聽Materials, Media, and Metaphor (Cr: 3)
    • AET 205聽-聽Music Therapy Foundations (Cr: 3)
    • AET 206聽-聽Guitar for Therapy and Education (Cr: 3)
    • AET 207聽-聽Drumming for Healing (Cr: 3)
    • AET 210聽-聽Therapeutic Writing (Cr: 3)
    • AET 215聽-聽Dance/Movement Therapy Foundations (Cr: 3)
    • AET 225聽-聽Jung and Art Therapy (Cr: 3)
    • AET 305聽-聽Cultural Humility in the Arts Therapies (Cr: 3)
    • AET 306聽-聽Drama Therapy and Psychodrama (Cr: 3)
    • ART 240聽-聽Imagination and Creativity (Cr: 3)
    • ART 266聽-聽Writing in the Arts Seminar (Cr: 3)
    • ART 365聽-聽Arts Administration II (Cr: 3)
    • DM 110聽-聽Introduction to Digital Filmmaking (Cr: 3)
    • DM 255聽-聽Writing for the Screen (Cr: 3)
    • DM 281聽-聽TV Studio Production I (Cr: 3)
    • DRA 215聽-聽Acting for Film (Cr: 3)
    • ED 215聽-聽Creative Arts in the Early Childhood and Elementary Classrooms (Cr: 3)
    • ENG 103聽-聽Public Speaking (Cr: 3)
    • ENG 212聽-聽Drama Survey (Cr: 3)
    • ENG 229聽-聽Playwriting and Screenwriting I (Cr: 3)
    • ENG 340聽-聽Playwriting and Screenwriting II (Cr: 3)
    • ENG 365聽-聽Shakespeare (Cr: 3)
    • IDS 301聽-聽Yoga: Theory, Culture & Practice (Cr: 3)
    • MTH 105聽-聽The Mathematics of Music (Cr: 3)

  • Internships and Careers

    An 西瓜视频 education means you'll graduate with a degree and a resume.

    Whether you pursue graduate school or embark on your career right away after graduation, we believe that your time at 西瓜视频 will prepare you for the next step.

    Internships: 

    Students are required to complete three internships within their major and/or minor. Internship sites have included: 

    • Performing Arts organizations (Boston Ballet, Urbanity Dance, Walt Disney College Program)

    • Dance companies throughout the U.S. and internationally

    • Dance Competitions 

    • Private Dance Studios/ Organizations 


    Jobs: 

    Many of our graduates have been employed with: 

    • Walt Disney World

    • New England Patriots Cheerleaders 

    • Boston Celtics Dancers

    • Norwegian Cruise Line

    • North Shore Music Theatre

    • National/ International Tours

    • Professional dance companies throughout the U.S. and internationally 

    • Dance Competitions and Convention circuits throughout the U.S. 

    • Private Business Owners of dance studios and programs 

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