Dance (DANC)
Courses
DANC 1104 Folk and Ballroom Dance I: 1 semester hour.
Instruction is offered at beginning level skills with emphasis on the development of total fitness and recreational skills for leisure time. All classes or coeducational.
DANC 1110 Tap Dance I: 1 semester hour.
Level I Tap Dance course will introduce basic tap skills, rhythms, and vocabulary through exercises and short routines. Students will learn fundamental steps and develop coordination and rhythmic accuracy.
DANC 1126 Body Mechanics and Rhythmic Activities: 1 semester hour.
Instruction is offered at beginning level skills with emphasis on the development of total fitness and recreational skills for leisure time. All classes or coeducational.
DANC 1203 Modern Dance I: 2 semester hours.
Level I Modern Dance is an introductory course that offers an understanding of modern dance concepts, musicality, and kinesthetic awareness. Students will develop core skills such as balance, strength, flexibility, and coordination through a combination of warm-ups, floor work, center exercises, and traveling across the floor.
DANC 1217 Jazz I: 2 semester hours.
Level I Jazz Dance course provides foundational instruction in beginning jazz dance techniques, focusing on developing coordination, strength, and rhythm through basic exercises, vocabulary, and short combinations.
DANC 1219 Ballet I: 2 semester hours.
Level I Ballet focuses on building fundamental technique, terminology, posture, and musicality through barre and center floor work aiming for improved strength, flexibility, alignment, coordination, and appreciation for the history of ballet.
DANC 2106 Folk and Ballroom Dance II: 1 semester hour.
Designed for the student with immediate and/or advanced level of skills; emphasis on the development of total fitness and recreational skills for leisure time. All classes or coeducational.
DANC 2201 Modern Dance II: 2 semester hours.
Level II Modern Dance is an intermediate course that offers an understanding of modern dance concepts, musicality, and kinesthetic awareness. Students will develop core skills such as balance, strength, flexibility, and coordination through a combination of warm-ups, floor work, center exercises, and traveling across the floor.
DANC 2202 Fundamentals of Dance: 2 semester hours.
Application of theory and fundamental skills in dance.
DANC 2207 Jazz II: 2 semester hours.
Level II Jazz Dance course provides foundational instruction in beginning and intermediate jazz dance techniques, focusing on developing coordination, strength, and rhythm through basic exercises, vocabulary, and short combinations.
DANC 2212 Tap Dance II: 2 semester hours.
Level II Tap Dance course will introduce basic and intermediate tap skills, rhythms, and vocabulary through exercises and short routines. Students will learn fundamental steps and develop coordination and rhythmic accuracy.
DANC 2215 Ballet II: 2 semester hours.
Level II Ballet focuses on building fundamental technique, terminology, posture, and musicality through barre and center floor work aiming for improved strength, flexibility, alignment, coordination, and appreciation for the history of ballet for beginner and intermediate students.
DANC 3699 Independent Study: 1-6 semester hour.
Reading, research, and/or field work on selected topics.
DANC 4202 Choreography: 2 semester hours.
Introduces the principals of motor control and motor learning with emphasis on the application of these principals in the neurologic population.
Prerequisites: (DANC 1103 or DANC 1031) and (DANC 1119 or DANC 1191) and (DANC 2202 or DANC 2022).
DANC 4203 Performance: 2 semester hours.
This course will use both choreography approached to creating dance as well as collaboration with musical composition, text, visual design and understanding criteria and professionalism with a product setting.
Prerequisites: (DANC 1103 or DANC 1031) and (DANC 1119 or DANC 1191) and (DANC 2202 or DANC 2022).
DANC 4699 Independent Study: 1-6 semester hour.
Reading, research, and/or field work on selected topics.

