U-DANCE-AB - Dance (AB)

Four pathways highlight the research trajectories of the Dance Program. None of the pathways targets a specific physical style or cultural tradition; rather, these traditions interweave through all the pathways.

These pathways are:

1. Dancing Cultures

2. Being and Healing

3. Process, Practice, and Research

4. Social Issues and Social Action

Please refer to the Dance Program website (danceprogram.duke.edu) for the current descriptions and listing of courses under each of these pathways.

Major Requirements: To major in dance, a student must take a minimum of ten course credits:

• Dance 101 (Introduction to Dance) or Dance 165 (Let’s Dance!)

• Three courses selected from a primary pathway

• One course from each of the secondary (three courses) pathways

• Dance 487S (Capstone Seminar: Research Methods and Writing in Dance Studies and Choreographic Performance)

• Dance 489T (Capstone: Senior Project) or Dance 499S (Capstone Seminar: Distinction Project)

• Equivalent of two course credits from partial or full-credit movement courses

Ten hours total of service work are required of each student. This may be completed at any time during the four-year undergraduate experience.

Pathways

Courses listed below are suggested choices in the pathways.

Dancing Cultures

Dance 165 (Let’s Dance! Live Art and Performance)

Dance 235SL (Capoeira: Practice and Culture)

Dance 255 (T’ai Chi and Chinese Thought)

Dance 316S (Postmodernism in Dance, 1950-2000)

Dance 318S (Movement in Question: Introduction to Critical Dance Studies)

Dance 325S (The Black Parades)

Dance 335SL (West African Rootholds in Dance)

Dance 336 (Black Dance)

Dance 337 (Black Dance: Jamaican Contexts)

Dance 338 Ballet History: Black Presence

Dance 356 (Dance and Dance Theater of Asia)

Dance 561S (Art as Work: Valuing Labor in the Arts)

Dance 590S (Topics in Dance/Embodiment)

Dance 665S (Contemporary Dance History)

Dance 690S (Special Topics in Dance)

Being and Healing

Dance 284 (Ritual, Performance, and Religion)

Dance 377S (Dance Science: An Evolutionary Approach)

Dance 371SL (Artists in Healthcare: Collaborations and Complexities)

Dance 390/390S (Special Topics)

Dance 575S (Somatics: Embodiment for the Twenty-First Century)

Dance 590 (Topics in Dance/Embodiment)

Dance 690S (Special Topics in Dance)

Process, Practice, and Research

Dance 105S (Dance Composition)

Dance 205S (Advanced Dance Composition)

Dance 211 (Musical Theater Workshop: Performance)

Dance 301 (Arts Activism & Everyday Technology)

Dance 302S (Writing about Performance)

Dance 308 (Performance and Technology: Composition Workshop)

Dance 309S (Dancing States of Mind: The Self, Social and Political Practice of Dance)

Dance 370S (The Choreographic Mind: Order, Disorder, Organization, Relations)

Dance 375 (Music for Dancers)

Dance 390/390S (Special Topics)

Dance 403S (Pedagogies of Dance)

Dance 412 (Performance: Modern)

Dance 422 (Performance: Ballet)

Dance 432 (Performance: African)

Dance 442 (Performance: Jazz)

Dance 443 (Performance: Tap)

Dance 462 (Performance: Interdisciplinary)

Dance 472 (Performance: Dance Theater)

Dance 590S (Topics in Dance/Embodiment)

Dance 690S (Special Topics in Dance)

Social Issues and Social Action

Dance 201S (Arts Entrepreneurship)

Dance 208S Non-Profit Cultural Institutions)

Dance 309S (Dancing States of Mind: The Self, Social and Political Practice of Dance)

Dance 325S (The Black Parades)

Dance 379S (Legal Issues for the Performing Arts)

Dance 390/390S (Special Topics)

Dance 590 (Topics in Dance/Embodiment)

Dance 690S (Special Topics in Dance)

Courses originating outside of the Dance Program not listed here may be considered as satisfying pathways requirements at the discretion of the director of undergraduate studies and the student’s major advisor. No more than two courses originating outside of the Dance Program may count toward the pathways requirements.