Dance Minor

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https://musicanddance.uoregon.edu/dance-minor-program

The goal of the department is to provide comprehensive dance training within the liberal arts framework of the university. The study of dance involves intellectual, artistic, and physical development. The Department of Dance emphasizes all three areas of growth, a commitment made possible by the breadth of its curricular offerings and the depth of faculty expertise. In addition to the academic components, dance students experience the rigorous professional discipline that is inherent in studio classes. The department explores diverse idioms in dance: African dance and drumming, ballet, contact improvisation, contemporary, jazz, hip-hop, modern, partnering, and Salsa.

The dance minor is available to undergraduate students who want to combine an interest in dance with a major in another area of study. The minor allows students flexibility in constructing a program of courses to enhance and complement any chosen major.

Program's Admission Requirements

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Dance Minor Requirements

Courses used to fulfill the major requirements must be passed with a letter grade of at least C- or a P* where pass/no pass is the only grading option for the course. Most upper-division courses have prerequisites, corequisites, or both. Minors are encouraged to take Looking at Dance (DAN 251) as an arts and letters group-satisfying course and Anatomy of Human Movement (DAN 260) as a science group-satisfying course to enrich their understanding of dance, even though these courses do not count toward the minimum 26 credits required for the minor.

Technique 19
DANC 170
Contemporary I
DANC 270
Contemporary II
DANC 370
Contemporary III
DANC 172
Ballet I
DANC 272
Ballet II
DANC 372
Ballet III
DANC 175
Hip Hop I
DANC 275
Hip Hop II
DANC 375
Hip Hop III
DANC 185
African I
DANC 285
African II
DANC 199
Special Studies: [Topic]
DANC 299
Special Studies: [Topic]
DANC 399
Special Studies: [Topic]
DAN 494
Advanced Movement Practice
Performance2
DAN 380
Student Dance Concert Performance
DAN 408
Workshop: [Topic]
DAN 436
Dema African Performance Ensemble: [Topic]
DAN 480
Faculty Dance Concert Performance
DAN 486
Student Dance Collective: [Topic]
Creative Practice1
DAN 171
Dance Improvisation: [Topic]
Theory 214
DAN 241
Screendance: History and Theory
DAN 251
Looking at Dance
DAN 255
Dance Production I
DAN 256
Dance Somatics
DAN 258
Musical Elements of Dance
DAN 260
Anatomy of Human Movement
DAN 301
African Dance Aesthetics
DAN 355
Dance Production II
DAN 360
Dance Kinesiology
DAN 443
Dance and Power
DAN 444
Contemporary Issues in Dance
DAN 458
Music for Dancers
DAN 491
Teaching Dance
Total Credits26
1

6 credits minimum in upper division. 1 course per idiom minimum in DANC.

2

4 credits minimum in upper division.