Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance
Minor in Dance
Students on Summer 2024, Fall 2024, or Spring 2025 requirements DANCEMIN
Requirements
The minor requires at least 18 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.
- Required Core.
- Core of Dance Techniques. One (1) course:
- THTR-D 109 Core of Dance Technique
THTR-D 109 Core of Dance Technique
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to concert dance techniques, as well as stretching and strengthening skills to prepare for those techniques. Practice with emphasis on dance vocabulary and theory.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of HPER-D 111 or THTR-D 109.
- Introduction to Dance Studies. One (1) course:
- THTR-D 231 Introduction to Dance Studies
THTR-D 231 Introduction to Dance Studies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to Dance Studies establishes literacy in dance as an art-form. Using a global perspective, students will explore the elements of dance and how they manifest in culture from social settings to the concert stage. The roles of dancer, choreographer and spectator will be studied in multiple contexts of the discipline of theatrical, social and cultural dancing.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of HPER-D 231 or THTR-D 231.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Core of Dance Techniques. One (1) course:
- Social and Historical Dance and Theatre Studies. One (1) course:
- THTR-D 332 Twentieth-Century Concert Dance
- THTR-T 370 History of Theatre and Drama I
- THTR-T 371 History of Theatre and Drama II
- AAAD-A 295 Survey of Hip Hop
- AAAD-A 320 Black Dance History
- ANTH-A 208 Topics in the Anthropology of the Arts and Expressive Behavior
- ANTH-E 203 Stigma and the Expressive Arts: Cultivating Compassion
- ANTH-E 463 Anthropology of Dance
- CMLT-C 147 Images of the Self: East and West
- FOLK-E 295 Survey of Hip Hop
- EDUC-M 334
- EDUC-Z 305 Theatre for Young Audiences (Tya)
THTR-D 332 Twentieth-Century Concert Dance
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Survey of Twentieth-Century concert dance history.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of HPER-D 332 or THTR-D 332.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
THTR-T 370 History of Theatre and Drama I
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- THTR-T 100; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Worldwide development of theatre and drama from beginnings to present. Study of theatre arts and culture institutions; focus on historical context for plays and performances; emphasis on research methods in theatre history. Beginnings to circa 1700.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
THTR-T 371 History of Theatre and Drama II
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- THTR-T 100 or consent of instructor
- Description
- Development of theatre and drama in Western world from beginnings to present. Study of theatre arts and cultural institutions; focus on historical context for plays and performances; emphasis on research methods in theatre history. Circa 1700 to present.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
AAAD-A 295 Survey of Hip Hop
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines rap music and hip hop culture as artistic and sociocultural phenomena with emphasis on historical, cultural, economic, and political contexts. Topics include the coexistence of various hip hop styles, their appropriation by the music industry, and controversies resulting from the exploitation of hip hop as a commodity for national and global consumption.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 295, FOLK-E 295, or FOLK-F 295.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
AAAD-A 320 Black Dance History
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Acquaints students with dancers and choreographers from the African American and African Diaspora who choose to communicate historical, political, recreational, and social themes through the modern, jazz, ballet, tap, and traditional (African and Caribbean) forms of dance and the expressive nature of movement from the black perspective and experience.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-A 208 Topics in the Anthropology of the Arts and Expressive Behavior
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to selected topics in the anthropology of art, performance, music, literature, folklore, belief, and ritual. Examines the methods anthropologists use to study the arts or other expressive behaviors and explores art and expression in a variety of cultural settings.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 203 Stigma and the Expressive Arts: Cultivating Compassion
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Stigma theory shows how cultural norms create marked categories of persons, who then face social barriers to equal treatment. This course explores expressive arts -- including written and spoken word, film and video, and live or mediated performance -- as effective strategies for disarming the stigmatizing gaze in the U.S.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
ANTH-E 463 Anthropology of Dance
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Techniques of dance research, bibliographic and archival sources, historical and comparative studies, function and structure of dance, distribution of dance styles, and symbolic aspects of dance performance. A variety of dance forms will be considered in their social and cultural contexts.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
CMLT-C 147 Images of the Self: East and West
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Topics such as the individual in society, the outcast as hero, and artistic sensibility, examined in selected works of Western and Eastern literature from ancient to modern times.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
FOLK-E 295 Survey of Hip Hop
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines rap music and hip hop culture as artistic and sociocultural phenomena with emphasis on historical, cultural, economic, and political contexts. Topics include the coexistence of various hip hop styles, their appropriation by the music industry, and controversies resulting from the exploitation of hip hop as a commodity for national and global consumption.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 295, FOLK-E 295, or FOLK-F 295.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
EDUC-Z 305 Theatre for Young Audiences (Tya)
- Description
- This course provides an overview of the historical, theoretical and practical elements of Theatre by for and with youth. Over the course of the semester students will be introduced to the history and current theory informing youth theatre and work with, by and for young audiences. This course will provide the student with a great deal of hands-on experiences with creative dramatics, Drama in Education (DIE), Process Drama, Theatre in Education (TIE), storytelling, storybook theatre as well as play building and production with and for youth. Students will view, critique and design performances with by and for youth. This class is designed to result in the students' engaging with a practical experience facilitating drama with youth in an educational environment. The students will select the form or combination of forms of creative dramatics for an appropriate age group and design of a new play for youth to be mounted and toured the following semester.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
- Dance Practices.
- 300–499 Level Dance Practices Course. One (1) course:
- THTR-D 341 Cultural Choreographies
- THTR-D 354 Advanced Tap Dance
- THTR-D 355 Advanced Modern Dance
- THTR-D 456 Advanced Jazz Dance
- THTR-D 461 Methods of Movement Analysis
- THTR-D 483 Topics in Dance
- THTR-D 484 Professional Body Work Certification
- THTR-T 301 Musical Theatre Dance Styles I
- THTR-T 302 Musical Theatre Dance Styles II
- THTR-T 410 Movement for the Theatre I
- THTR-X 476 Practicum in Community Dance Partnerships
- AAAD-A 338 African American Dance Company: Advanced Studies and Practices
THTR-D 341 Cultural Choreographies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- THTR-D 109
- Description
- A foundation in contemporary global and urban styles of dance that are interwoven and fused within professional contemporary dance such as hip-hop, krump, Israeli ga ga style, and others. Prepares pre-professional dancers to be well versed physically and intellectually in current contemporary, global dance styles.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 12 credit hours in THTR-D 241 or THTR-D 341.
THTR-D 354 Advanced Tap Dance
- Credits
- 1
- Prerequisites
- THTR-D 254; or consent of instructor
- Description
- For students who have taken intermediate tap and want to continue learning the art of rhythm tap. Others with a solid foundation in tap are also welcome. Explores more complex rhythmic patterns and skills through routines, challenges, and improvisation. Students will be required to present routines of their own at the end of the semester.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 2 credit hours for any combination of HPER-E 354 and THTR-D 354.
THTR-D 355 Advanced Modern Dance
- Credits
- 2
- Prerequisites
- THTR-D 255; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Advanced techniques in modern dance with emphasis on performance of movement patterns and individual creative work.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credit hours in HPER-E 355 or THTR-D 355.
THTR-D 456 Advanced Jazz Dance
- Credits
- 2
- Prerequisites
- THTR-D 256; or consent of instructor
- Description
- A continuation of instruction in the modern jazz style of movement with special emphasis on movement precision, clarity, and performance style. Students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of alignment and a mastery of advanced jazz-level combinations, demonstrate advanced and improved movement memory, demonstrate advanced and improved clarity, precision, and musicality, and show stylistic differences through the performance of movement combinations
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits in HPER-E 456 or THTR-D 456.
THTR-D 461 Methods of Movement Analysis
- Credits
- 1
- Prerequisites
- Consent of instructor
- Description
- Methods of analyzing movement in dance.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of HPER-D 461 or THTR-D 461.
THTR-D 483 Topics in Dance
- Credits
- 1–4 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Studies in special topics not ordinarily covered in other departmental dance courses.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for credit up to eight times with different topics.
THTR-D 484 Professional Body Work Certification
- Credits
- 1–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- ANAT-A 215
- Description
- Provides students the opportunity to gain knowledge in the arena of somatic body work as well as pursue professional certifications in specific areas. Certifications in yoga, as granted through the Yoga Alliance, and Stott Pilates will be offered in alternating years.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 7 credit hours
THTR-T 301 Musical Theatre Dance Styles I
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Consent of instructor
- Description
- Dance styles of the 1920s through the 1950s are explored and performed, including the works of choreographers Fred Astaire, Hermes Pan, Agnes DeMille, Jerome Robbins, and Gower Champion.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
THTR-T 302 Musical Theatre Dance Styles II
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Consent of instructor
- Description
- A continuation of THTR-T 301. Dance styles of the 1950s to the present are explored and performed, including the works of choreographers Bob Fosse, Michael Bennett, Bob Avian, and Susan Stroman.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
THTR-T 410 Movement for the Theatre I
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- THTR-T 120 or THTR-T 121
- Description
- Introduction to fundamental principles and methodologies of movement training for the actor. Emphasis on connecting to imagery and impulse, conditioning, centering and alignment, physical characterization, and kinesthetic awareness in relation to the self, other actors, and the space.
THTR-X 476 Practicum in Community Dance Partnerships
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- THTR-D 200
- Description
- Dance majors will design, implement and teach a dance education program for community partners in local social service settings that promote well-being and dance appreciation through personal, and physical creative expression.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of HPER-D 421, THTR-D 497, or THTR-X 476.
AAAD-A 338 African American Dance Company: Advanced Studies and Practices
- Credits
- 2
- Prerequisites
- AAAD-A 100
- Description
- Students learn dance technique and experience performance from the perspective of the African American and African diaspora. Students perform in choreographic works created by the director and in works produced from student collaborative projects.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credit hours individually or in combination with AAAD-A 337 and AAAD-A 339.
- Dance Practices Electives. Two (2) courses:
- Additional courses from the 300-499 Level Dance Practices Course list.
- Additional courses from the Social and Historical Dance and Theatre Studies list
- THTR-D 154 Beginning Tap Dance
- THTR-D 155 Beginning Modern Dance
- THTR-D 156 Introduction to Jazz Dance Technique
- THTR-D 254 Intermediate Tap Dance
- THTR-D 255 Intermediate Modern Dance
- THTR-D 256 Intermediate Jazz Dance
- AAAD-A 100 African American Dance Company: Foundations and Practices
- AAAD-A 221 Dance in the African Diaspora
- MUS-J 100 Ballet Elective/Secondary
THTR-D 154 Beginning Tap Dance
- Credits
- 1
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An introduction to the technique and styles of tap dancing, emphasizing rhythmic accuracy and efficiency of movement. Course will include history and appreciation of tap dance.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of HPER-E 154 or THTR-D 154.
THTR-D 155 Beginning Modern Dance
- Credits
- 1
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Beginning instruction in modern dance technique, stressing knowledge and application of movement principles essential to dance training.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of HPER-E 155 or THTR-D 155.
THTR-D 156 Introduction to Jazz Dance Technique
- Credits
- 1
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An introduction to the modern jazz style of movement as it integrates with sound biomechanical principles. Phrasing, dynamics, and other qualities will be discussed.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of HPER-E 156 or THTR-D 156.
THTR-D 254 Intermediate Tap Dance
- Credits
- 1
- Prerequisites
- THTR-D 154; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Second-level course in the technique and styles of tap dance and the use of tap dance steps to create original choreography. Development of tap dance as a musical and visual art form.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of HPER-E 254 or THTR-D 254.
THTR-D 255 Intermediate Modern Dance
- Credits
- 1
- Prerequisites
- THTR-D 155; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Intermediate modern dance technique, stressing knowledge and application of movement principles essential to dance training.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a total maximum of 3 credit hours in HPER-E 255 or THTR-D 255.
THTR-D 256 Intermediate Jazz Dance
- Credits
- 1
- Prerequisites
- THTR-D 156; or consent of instructor
- Description
- A continuation of instruction in the modern jazz style of movement. Special emphasis on movement efficiency, precision, and clarity.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of HPER-E 256 or THTR-D 256.
AAAD-A 100 African American Dance Company: Foundations and Practices
- Credits
- 2
- Prerequisites
- Consent of instructor by audition
- Notes
- R: Previous dance training desirable but not essential
- Description
- Emphasis on ethnic and jazz traditions, although other genres are regularly performed. Repertoire varies from semester to semester. Participation in on- and off-campus concerts, workshops, and lecture demonstrations required.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated individually or in combination with AAAD-A 110 or AAAD-A 120 for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
AAAD-A 221 Dance in the African Diaspora
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the history, culture, music, and body movements of dances in the African American and African Diaspora tradition with a focus on African-derived dances, primarily from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and America. Instruction through classroom lectures, discussions, videos, readings, and movement sessions.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
MUS-J 100 Ballet Elective/Secondary
- Description
- Classical Ballet technique class offered at a variety of levels. Course includes barre exercises and centre practice.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
- 300–499 Level Dance Practices Course. One (1) course:
- Minor GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
- Minor GPA. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the minor—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
- Minor Minimum Grade. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the minor.
- Minor Upper Division Credit Hours. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed at the 300–499 level.
- Minor Residency. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
Minor Area Courses
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Unless otherwise noted below, the following courses are considered in the academic program and will count toward academic program requirements as appropriate:
- Any course at the 100–499 level with the
THTR-D
subject area prefix—as well as any other subject areas that are deemed functionally equivalent - Any course contained on the course lists for the academic program requirements at the time the course is taken—as well as any other courses that are deemed functionally equivalent—except for those listed only under Addenda Requirements
- Any course directed to a non-Addenda requirement through an approved exception
- Any course at the 100–499 level with the
This program of study cannot be combined with the following:
- Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance (DANCEBFA)
Exceptions to and substitutions for minor requirements may be made with the approval of the unit's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.