Objectives

The BFA degree has curriculum has the following principle objectives: (1) to cultivate critical thought processes in students by stressing the theoretical, pedagogical, and historic aspects of dance studies, (2) to successfully prepare student dancers and choreographers for the professional world of dance, in a rigorous training environment that incorporates both practice and scholarship, and (3) to cultivate students’ creative, performance, and scholarly aptitudes through exposure to diverse practical and philosophical approaches to dance studies.