Department of Dance
GOALS FOR THE MFA DEGREE - MFA Handbook
Upon graduation every student will be able to demonstrate:
1. Skills necessary for participation in the artistic process, including conceiving, observing, and analyzing of emerging choreographic elements, creative thinking, and problem-solving. (DCE 651, 687)
2. Choreographic skills necessary to create artistically compelling and satisfying dance works. (DCE 651, 687)
3. Skills necessary for the video documentation of dance works. (DCE 555)
4. Proficiency in communicating artistic and creative intentions both orally and in writing. (DCE 505, 651)
5. Ability to engage in clear, reflective and grounded discourse about dance as a field of artistic and scholarly endeavor as measured by assignments in DCE 505, 610, 611, 622.
6. Ability to situate a broad range of artistic practices in cultural and historical context through clear writing and speaking as measured by assignments in DCE 505, 610, 622.
7.Working knowledge of existing literature in contemporary and historical aspects/dimensions of dance and related fields. (610, 611, 622, 651)
8. Proficiency in describing, analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating his/her own and others’ dance works and choreographic practices as artistic, social, and cultural processes and products. (DCE 610, 611, 622, 651)
9. Proficiency in describing, analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating somatic experience as encountered in technique, choreography, performance, pedagogy, as well as personal, social, and cultural experience. (DCE 560, 624)
10. Familiarity with administrative aspects of the field and the communications skills necessary to success as a professional in today’s dance world. (DCE 621)
11. Ability clearly to articulate, probe and apply current theories and philosophies in teaching dance. (DCE 611, 661, 660, 662)