Dance Minor Contact Information

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

Dance Minor

The Dance minor includes study in all four areas of the dance curriculum, technique, performance, creative practice, and theory.  The minor requires 26-credit hours of Dance and is designed for students who want to focus primarily in another area of study, while also pursuing their interest in dance. More information on the department and the minor can be found at this website.

Mission Statement

Our mission is to promote creative and expressive agency, cultural investigation, and historical inquiry in a welcoming and rigorous environment. The curriculum interweaves a multiplicity of movement practices, choreographic approaches, and theoretical lenses to embolden students to amplify dance as a vital signifier of the human condition. We believe in supporting students in meeting the physicality required to develop technical proficiencies, in finding the dedication needed to establish a self-reflexive creative practice, and in building confidence in the transformative possibilities of their artistic voice.

Dance Minor Requirements

Courses used to fulfill the minor 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, co-requisites, or both. 

Technique 1, 29
Contemporary
DANC 150
Contemporary Foundations
DANC 170
Contemporary I (Placement Required)
DANC 270
Contemporary II (Placement Required)
DANC 370
Contemporary III (Placement Required)
Ballet
DANC 152
Ballet Foundations
DANC 172
Ballet I (Placement Required)
DANC 272
Ballet II (Placement Required)
DANC 372
Ballet III (Placement Required)
Hip Hop
DANC 155
Hip Hop Foundations
DANC 175
Hip Hop I
DANC 275
Hip Hop II First Term
DANC 276
Hip Hop II Second Term
DANC 375
Hip Hop III
African
DANC 185
African I
DANC 285
African II
DANC 385
African III
Other
DANC 199
Special Studies: [Topic]
DANC 299
Special Studies: [Topic]
DANC 399
Special Studies: [Topic]
DANC 386
Dance in the African Diaspora: [Topic]
DAN 494
Advanced Movement Practice
Performance 32
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 414
DAN 241
Screendance: History and Theory
DAN 251
Looking at Dance
DAN 255
Dance Production I
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. One course minimum per idiom in DANC.

2. Upper-division* technique: 4 credits minimum.

3. Upper-division* performance: 2 credits minimum.

4. Upper-division* theory: 6 credits minimum.

*Total upper-division (300 & 400) in Dance (DAN & DANC): 12 credits minimum.

Additional Requirements

Students should do all 26 credit hours required for the minor in residency.