If you elect to follow the Dance Education CCI, an exciting selection of opportunities will open up that will provide real-world teaching experience and contact hours in the classroom. Experiences include teaching Common Core themes using renown choreographer, Bill T. Jones’s, dances and choreographic methods through our Community Dance Project. You will have opportunities to join the national organizations of NDEO (National Dance Education Organization) and Movement Exchange, and participate the annual service trip to Panama, as well as special consideration for the full fellowship to the esteemed DEL (Dance Education Laboratory) Summer workshop in New York City.
Career Tracking
Suggested elective courses and experiences in addition to the required dance curriculum. List subject to change. Contacting faculty for advising is strongly recommended.
- Community Dance Project: Teaching (2–4 Semesters) [DANC 379 Dance Tour Group]
- Participation in Movement Exchange and voluntary leadership positions
- Participation in NDEO and voluntary leadership positions
- Pursuit of CA State Dance Teaching Credential with the education minor
- Elective Hip-Hop courses (1–3 Semesters) [DANC 347 or 498.01]
- Equitable Commercial Dance Program Courses (2 Semesters) [DANC 291 or 398.02]
- Elective Jazz (beyond the requirement), Musical Theater Dance, or Tap (1–2 Semesters) [DANC 445, 446, 144, 244, 344, 248, 348]
- Recommended electives and extra-curriculars to round out your skill set
- Multiple Ways of Knowing and Showing [DANC 363]
- Movement Arts for Children [DANC 385]
- Filming Dance [DANC 479.01/.02]
- Dance crews
