New Program Proposal Bachelor Of Arts Major In Dance printable pdf download

CAAL

10/20/2004

Agenda Item 2e

New Program Proposal

Bachelor of Arts– Major in Dance

University of South Carolina – Columbia

Summary

USC-Columbia requests approval to offer a program leading to the Bachelor of Arts

degree with a Major in Dance, to be implemented in Spring 2005. There will be two tracks:

Dance Performance/Choreography and Dance Education.

The proposal was submitted for Commission review on August 16, 2004. The

proposal was reviewed without substantive comment and voted upon favorably by the

Advisory Committee on Academic Programs at its meeting on September 30, 2004. The

proposal will go before the Board of Trustees at its meeting on October 22, 2004.

The purpose of the program is to provide professional training in performance and

pedagogy, and it will also prepare students for graduate work and advanced studies in

dance. The program will have a strong emphasis on classical ballet, making it unique in the

state. The proposal states that the program will qualify graduates for employment in areas

such as dance performance, choreography, teaching, production and stage management,

arts design and administration, music, dance therapy, dance history, dance criticism, dance

theory and research, physiology and medicine, movement analysis, arts management,

history and anthropology, criticism and philosophy, research, photography, film, video, and

technology.

Dance majors will follow the general education and elective requirements as defined

by the College of Liberal Arts. The curriculum for the choreography track consists of

consists of 120 credit hours. Of these, 90 credits are in general University requirements, 18

credits are in required dance courses, and 12 are in dance electives. The curriculum for the

dance education track consists of 126 credit hours. Of these, 75 credits are in general

University requirements, 28 credits are in required dance courses, six credits are in dance

electives, and 17 credits are in required physical education and education courses required

to meet teacher certification requirements.

Three institutions in the state offer dance majors, but the only public university

offering a dance major is Winthrop. Two private colleges, Columbia College and Coker

College, offer the major. All three of these institutions focus on modern dance rather than

classical ballet, and only two of them, Winthrop and Columbia College, offer K-12 dance

New Program Proposal Bachelor Of Arts Major In Dance