University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Fine and Applied Arts 7 courses 12 total credits
The Graduate Minor in Dance offers physical, creative, and theoretical engagement with contemporary dance and performance. The program of study presents interested graduate students the chance to endow their major graduate degree studies with interdisciplinary ideas and presents an alternate pedagogic window into research through the body. Prospective graduate minor students will be required to have successfully completed one of the required Dance Graduate Minor courses prior to official admission to the program. In addition, they will have to be interviewed by the MFA in Dance Program Director, and they will have to provide a letter of endorsement from their home department advisor that is co-signed by their home department Graduate Program Director. The Department of Dance offers a graduate program leading to the Master of Fine Arts degree. The mission of the MFA Program is to foster substantive choreographic research that posits dance as a force in contemporary culture. The program embraces a wide spectrum of individual movement research and embodied practice to create a dynamic learning atmosphere for critical engagement with choreographic process. The Dance Department expects MFA candidates to conduct a creative inquiry that leads to the development of a sophisticated sense of self-definition. Individual research and analysis should culminate in the development of a personal artistic process and mission and should be evident in the following contexts:
| Total Hours | 12 credits |
Required Courses
| Code | Course Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| DANC 510 | Graduate Seminar | 4 |
| DANC 541 or DANC 542 | Contemporary Directions I or Contemporary Directions II | 2 |
| DANC 462 or DANC 562 | Composition Workshop or Graduate Composition II | 2 |
| DANC 550 | Advanced Research in Dance | 1-4 |
| DANC 560 | Advanced Physical Practice | 1-4 |
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