The Dance Certificate of Completion offers a comprehensive curriculum designed to provide practical and theoretical training for students interested in a dance career. In addition, this program offers lower division theory courses to prepare the student for transfer to a four-year institution as a dance major. Students planning to transfer to a school of dance should consult with dance faculty to select acceptable transfer courses

Students who complete the Dance Program will be able to: Identify, analyze, assess and perform dance combinations and choreography to reflect specified line, design, technique and vocabulary as well as rhythmic, dynamic and emotional concepts for a wide variety of movement genres. Apply aesthetic principles and critical thinking skills in the creation, performance and analysis of choreography. Identify, compare, contrast and evaluate theatrical forms of dance in a socio-historical context as an artistic, political or ideological medium of communication. Students will be assessed through a combination of performance evaluations, written assignments, and written tests and quizzes.