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Technique Enrollment Policy
(1/24/08)
To ensure an optimal learning environment for all students, to ensure that Dance majors can meet graduation requirements in a timely manner, to ensure fairness for all students, and to make the best use of faculty time, the Department of Dance will follow the procedure detailed below for pre-registration in Fall, 2008 Ballet and Contemporary classes.
Department of Dance
Preparing for Lateral Entry Teaching
Many UNCG graduates have found satisfying careers as dance educators in public schools; for many years, there have been many more jobs available than there have been licensed teachers to fill them. Although UNCG will not be offering teacher licensure for students who entered after Spring 2007, we will continue to prepare students to meet requirements for initial licensure offered through North Carolina’s Regional Alternative Licensure Centers for Lateral Entry teachers. (Lateral entry teachers must have a college degree but are allowed up to three years to obtain the teaching license. About one-third of all North Carolina teachers are currently entering the profession this way.) If this is your goal, select these courses as part of your undergraduate degree requirements:
DCE 546 and DCE 557, followed by DCE 365 (note g.p.a requirements for this practicum course)
CUI 450, CUI 535, CUI 545.
We also strongly encourage you to take these additional courses to help you be better prepared as a dance educator: LIS 120, HEA 201, ELC 381, DCE 230, DCE 353, DCE 417.
We also strongly recommend that you attain the highest level possible in contemporary dance and other dance forms.
Please know that the state is subject to changing its requirements at any point, so we recommend that you check with Melinda Waegerle (mhwaeger@uncg.edu) on a regular basis regarding changes to these requirements. The NC Department of Public Instruction web site is an important guide for requirements for licensure, including minimum gpa requirements (currently 2.5; see http://www.ncpublicschools.org/).