Major in Dance

New dance curriculum launching Fall 2025. More information coming soon.

LMU offers a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Dance. Students have the opportunity to take a wide range of movement classes, allowing them to explore different aspects of dance and expand their technical proficiency. Additionally, they study dance history, theory, pedagogy, kinesiology, and choreography, providing them with a well-rounded understanding of the art form and its cultural context.  

Learning Outcomes

1. Students will apply healthy and sustainable practices to their work in dance.
2. Students will demonstrate embodied knowledge of multiple dance techniques and genres.
3. Students will analyze various aesthetic values and engage creatively to solve problems.
4. Students will create original work with a critical awareness of the ways in which musicality, theatricality, technology, and spatiality inform the creative process.
5. Students will integrate research of the historical, the contemporary, and the self in dance using traditional academic, as well as movement methodologies.
6. Students will produce original, critical and creative scholarship that demonstrates integration of their knowledge of dance studies.