Academic Advisor
Sharon Butcher
(707) 826-3549
sgb14@humboldt.edu
Department
of Theatre, Film & Dance
Theatre Arts Building 20
(707) 826-3566
This program combines dance courses from the Departments of Kinesiology & Recreation Administration and Theatre, Film and Dance. Designed to offer students exposure
to diverse creative and cultural experiences, the dance studies option is based
on the goals of the National Dance Education Organization. All course offerings
strive to provide a means for unifying the physical, intellectual, and emotional
aspects of student learning. In an increasingly technological age, this program
is suited to keeping in touch with what is human by fostering aesthetic and
kinesthetic education so that students develop a capacity to form and transform
thought into expressive movement. As students learn skills that can assist
them in non-verbal forms of expression, dance can serve them as a vehicle through
which they can recognize and respect the importance of the dance contributions
of various ethnic groups, societies, and historical periods that are connected
to the present world culture.
The Dance Studies Option prepares students for careers as special arts events
coordinators, dance studio teachers/instructors, dance choreographers and performers,
designers of lights, sets, costumes, and publicity for dance, teachers of mind/body
integration techniques, performer of sacred/religious dance, and further study
at the graduate level.
There are three concentration areas each with a different approach to the study
of dance. All three concentration areas highly encourage student participation
in the exchange or international programs. There is a dance core of thirty
units with ten units of dance electives. Each concentration has one required
academic course and twelve units of additional academic courses, (at least
nine units must be upper division), to support the particular focus of the
chosen concentration.
Students choose one of the following concentration areas.
Dance as Language and Culture
Dance Performance as Arts Integration
Dance as Sacred Tradition
Dance Core Courses: Required for all three concentrations: 30 units
LOWER DIVISION
PE 192 Latin
Dance or
PE 193 Mexican
Folklorico Dance or
PE 196 Swing
Dance or
PE 197 Tappin
Dancin Feet
TFD 103B
Dance Techniques II
TFD 103C Dance
Techniques III
TFD 295 Body
Works
UPPER DIVISION
GEOG 300
Global Awareness
TFD 303
World Dance Expressions
TFD 350 Dance Science
TFD 389 Choreography
Workshop
TFD 485 Interdisciplinary Dance Seminar
TFD 489 Dance Theatre Production
Dance Electives: Choose 10 units
LOWER DIVISION
PE 190 Country
Western Dance or
PE 194 Social
Dance or
PE 198 Vintage
Dance
TFD 103
Dance Techniques
TFD 185
Ballet I
TFD 186
Ballet II
TFD 190 Middle
Eastern
TFD 190 Congolese
or West African Dance
UPPER DIVISION
KINS 322
Dance Fundamentals
RS 345 Tai
Chi
TFD 385 Jazz
Dance Styles I
TFD 386
Jazz Dance Styles II
TFD 484
Creative Dance
TFD 499
Directed Study
This Interdisciplinary BA Major in Dance Studies provides a unique perspective for cultural understanding by placing emphasis on the study of dance as an expressive form able to cross language barriers through the human body. Through the dance core and electives students will gain a solid base for dance vocabulary, structure, and performance that will enable them to examine and to experience similarities and differences among world peoples.
Additional course work on global awareness, intercultural communication, anthropology multicultural issues, and the arts provide a rich tapestry for examination, interpretation, and reflection on past and current trends that have shaped today's world.
Dance Core 30 units
Dance Electives 10 units
Total Dance 40 units
Required:
ANTH 104 Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Studies: At least nine units upper division: 12 units total
ANTH 340
Language and Culture
ART 104K
Intro to Tribal Art
COMM 322
Intercutlural Communication
ENGL 305
Postcolonial Perspectives
ES 308 Multicultural
Perspectives in American Society
ES/GEOG 304
Migrations and Mosaics
MUS 104 Intro
to Music
MUS 302
Music in World Cultures
PSCI 340
Ethnicity and Nationalism
SOC 303
Race and Ethnic Relations
TFD 106
Behind the Scenes in Theatre
TFD 307
Theatre of the Oppressed
WS 309B Gender
& Communication
Total for Degree 55 units
This concentration provides a course structure for students to experience and to examine those elements that all the arts share with dance. Students will discover through music, theatre, and art how the elements of timbre, rhythm, compositional structure, two and three dimensional design, cinematic sequencing, and visual communication all lend themselves in support and augmentation of choreographic and performance development.
Additional course options in historical periods of music and art, performance styles of acting and physical theatre, or theatre as social activism, and lighting and scenery design provide a multilevel foundation for student who want to be dance choreographers/performers, or who wish to pursue dance study at the graduate level.
Dance Core 30 units
Dance Electives 10 units
Total Dance 40 units
Required:
MUS 104 Intro to Music
Arts Integration: At least nine units upper division; 12 units total
ART 103 Introduction
to Art History
ART 108
Beginning Graphic Design
MUS 105
American Musical
MUS 301
ROCK: An American Music
MUS 302
Music in World Culture
MUS 305
Jazz- An American Art Form
PHIL 301
Reflection on Art
TFD 305
Art of Film: Beginning to 1950's
TFD 306
Art of Film: 1950's to Present
TFD 307
Theatre of the Oppressed
TFD 331
Scenery Design
TFD 333
Lighting Design
TFD 335
History of Costume
Total for Degree 55 units
This concentration provides a framework for students to study dance from its origins in sacred ritual and ceremony to its current day uses in religion and therapy as a tool for transcending human limitations. Students will observe dance as prayer, as healer, as a cohesive demonstration of community, as a joyful release of energy, and as an ecstatic connection to the universe.
Additional course work in the departments of Religious Studies and World Languages and Cultures will assist students in their understandings of the religious dogmas and racial prejudices that have shaped today's world.
Dance Core 30 units
Dance Electives 10 units
Total Dance 40 units
Required:
RS 105 World Religions
Sacred tradition: At least nine units upper division; 12 units total
ES 308 Multicultural
Perspectives
ES 326 Minorities
and the Media
ES 304/GEOG 304
Migrations & the Media
ES 108/WS 108
Power/Privilege: Gender, Race, Sex, Class
NAS 311 Comparative
Native American Myth
RS 300 Living
Myths
RS 331 Intro
to Christianity
RS 332 Intro
to Islam
RS 340 Zen,
Dharma, and Tao
RS 350 Religions
of the Goddesses
RS 360 Religion
and Psychology
RS 362 Wisdom
and Craft
RS 363 Mysticism
and Madness
RS 391 Buddhism
in India and Tibet
RS 391 Special
Topics: Religion in Tradition when applicable)
RS 393 Special
Topics: Religion in Myth, Culture, & Experience
RS 400 Paths
to Center
Total for Degree 55 units