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May 23, 2025
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Loyola Marymount University Bulletin 2023-2024
Dance, B.A.
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Student Learning Outcomes
- Students will apply healthy and sustainable practices to their work in dance.
- Students will demonstrate embodied knowledge of multiple dance techniques and genres.
- Students will apply critical thinking to dance and its function in society through analysis of diverse aesthetic values.
- Students will create original work with a critical awareness of the ways in which musicality, theatricality, technology, and spatiality inform the creative process.
- Students will integrate research of the historical, the contemporary, and the self in dance using traditional academic, as well as movement methodologies.
- Students will produce original, critical, and creative scholarship that demonstrates integration of their knowledge of dance studies.
Dance Generalist Track (GENL)
Lower Division Requirements:
A minimum of 20 semester hours: - DANC 100 Orientation to Dance 1 semester hours
- DANC 160 Fundamentals of Dance Composition I: The Choreographic Process 3 semester hours (counts also as University Core)
- DANC 161 Fundamentals of Dance Composition II: Dance Improvisation 3 semester hours
- DANC 183 Stagecraft for Dancers 1 semester hours
- DANC 253 Pilates for First Year 0 to 1 semester hours
- DANC 260 Laban Movement Analysis: Applications for Dance Making 3 semester hours
- DANC 262 Dance Styles and Forms 3 semester hours
- DANC 281 History of Dance Theatre 3 semester hours
- DANC 282 I Am, Therefore I Dance: Dance, Culture, and Society 3 semester hours
- And taken at the level of proficiency: Modern/Contemporary Technique and Ballet Technique each semester (minimum total lower and upper division, 8 semester hours), and Jazz Technique, 4 semesters (minimum total lower or upper division, 4 semester hours), and Dance in Its Cultural Context (termed “World Dance”), 2 semesters (minimum total lower or upper division, 2 semester hours).
Upper Division Requirements:
A minimum of 23 semester hours: Note:
A minimum of a C (2.0) must be maintained in major coursework. A minimum grade of C (2.0) must be earned in each Dance major technique course and DANC 461 . Dance Generalist Model Four-Year Plan
Total: 12-17 semester hours
Total: 13-20 semester hours
Total: 15-20 semester hours
Total: 15-22 semester hours
Total: 13-19 semester hours
Total: 12-16 semester hours
Total: 13-20 semester hours
Note:
Variable semester hours for all technique classes are options only for Dance majors and minors. All other students must take these courses for 2 semester hours. |
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