The School of Dance offers three minors: The Minor in Dance 表演与编舞 enhances students’ kinesthetic knowledge and performance presence, which can be applied in any career that requires physical skill and confidence. 通过舞蹈创作课程, dance production, 以及舞蹈历史/文化研究, the Dance 表演与编舞 minor also emphasizes the creative process, 懂得如何组织一场舞台音乐会, and how to understand dance in socio-cultural and historical contexts. Our graduates have applied these skills and concepts in fields as diverse as education, publishing, journalism, anthropology, communication, social work, physical therapy, acting, broadcasting, and many more.
The Minor in Somatic Studies considers the particular bodily kinesthetic knowledge that dancers develop in the course of their education. Students perform physical activities and analyze movement practices from a variety of somatic theory perspectives, learning about the body’s operations through both theory and practice. 在心理学辅修学位工作中学习, pre-physical therapy, exercise physiology, recreational therapy, and physical education. Somatic Studies minors have also gone into the field of Dance/Movement Therapy.
The Minor in Dance History and Theory focuses on the growing field of dance studies that uses a dance-based theoretical perspective and other movement practices to analyze dance in cultural contexts. This concentrated study helps prepare students with a specialized dance emphasis for employment or graduate study in dance studies, arts administration, dance ethnology, journalism or criticism, 在电影或录像中跳舞.