1997-1998 Undergraduate Catalog
Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705
The College of Fine Arts
The Dance Minor is an eighteen-credit program with nine required credits and nine elective credits. The required credits include the pertinent foundation courses and higher-level theory courses. The required courses also provide design elements of production, fundamental and historical theories of dance, and dance choreographic and teaching theories that cannot be obtained in any of the elective courses. The elective credits include the technique courses.
The Dance Minor is based on the National Standards for Arts Education dance requirements. Using this basis for the program ensures fundamental preparation for a number of student needs, for example: the dance teacher, the performer, and/or the dance studio owner.
The program is also designed to fulfill the needs of a Liberal Arts minor in dance. Through advisement, the minor program can serve the individual student's needs. The program would be of interest to secondary elementary, elementary education majors, small business majors, recreation and physical education majors, and anyone else who has an interest in dance and wants to broaden his or her Liberal Arts education.
Required Courses: 9 TH116 Fundamentals of Theatrical Design 3sh One of the following: TH102 Introduction to Dance 3sh TH150 Fundamentals of Dance 3sh One of the following: TH351 Choreography 3sh TH353 Dance Curriculum and Instruction 3sh Any three of the following as advised: 9 TH150 Fundamentals of Dance 3sh TH250 Contemporary Dance 3sh TH260 Jazz Dance 3sh TH270 Ballroom/Tap Dance 3sh TH280 Ballet 3sh TH290 Ethnic Dance 3sh TH485 Dance Studio 3sh
Total credits: 18 (@)To be implemented in 1996-97, pending Council of Trustees approval. (1)The Dance Minor consists of eighteen credits. Fundamentals of Dance cannot be counted twice.
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