Specific Degree Requirements
Admission status
When you are admitted to the Graduate College and the Graduate Program in Dance, you are admitted on either regular status with no deficiencies, regular status with deficiencies, or provisional status. You may be admitted with up to 12 units of deficiencies that must be completed by the date of your final oral examination. It behooves you to clear deficiencies as early in your study career as possible, and a tracking plan must be made in consultation with the Graduate Advisor for dance at the time you matriculate in order to make sure that deficiency courses can be met in a timely fashion. Some undergraduate courses are offered only biannually such as DNC455, Biomechanics for Dance, and DNC 546, Careers in Dance.
Provisional status is usually indicated for individuals with a GPA below 3.0 or who have more than 12 units of course deficiencies. The terms of provisional status are always specified for the individual and require individually designed programs of study to be completed within a specified period of probation. The probation period may be for up to but not exceeding one year.
In conjunction with the Graduate Advisor, each student is responsible for developing a written Plan of Study. This plan is to be filed with the Graduate College during the penultimate semester in residence.
Students must complete 60 units of graduate level courses. The specific Dance Graduate Curriculum for the MFA in Dance with the option in either Choreography or Performance is provided below:
MFA in Dance with an option in Choreography
| Course # | Course Name | Units | Type | *Denotes new courses CC Denotes co-convened. Some coursework is co-convened to provide to the graduate students the benefit of dancers on which to set and present material. This is the case for DNC545 A & B, DNC596E and DNC595A. GO denotes Graduate Only courses |
| DNC545A | Advanced Choreography | 4 total | GO | |
| DNC545B | Advanced Choreography | 4 total | CC | |
| DNC555 | Biomechanics for Dancers | 3 | CC | |
| DNC546A | Careers in Dance | 3 | CC | |
| Technique Classes | Some combination of the following: DNC540A and/or B Advanced Ballet DNC541A and/or B Advanced Modern DNC544A and/or B Advanced Jazz DNC551B Ballet Repertoire | 6 total | CC | |
| *DNC696B | Seminar in Graduate Technique (2 units per semester) | 4 total | GO | |
| DNC591 001 | Preceptorship (Teaching Methods) | 1 | GO | |
| DNC591 002 | Preceptorship (Large Lecture) | 3 | GO | |
| DNC591 003 | Preceptorship (Based on student’s plan of study) | 3 | GO | |
| DNC596A | Critical Issues in Dance | 3 | GO | |
| DNC596E | Seminar in Music and Dance Collaborations | 3 | GO | |
| DNC595A | Teaching Methods for Dance | 3 | GO | |
| DNC696A | Graduate Forum (1 unit each semester) | 4 total | GO | |
| DNC694A 001 | Master’s Project in Choreography (2 projects) | 6 total | GO | |
| *DNC909 001 | Masters Report (Final project) | 5-9 | GO | |
| TOTAL | Core Curriculum | 55-60 | ||
| Electives | 5 | |||
| TOTAL UNITS | MFA Total units | 60 |
MFA in Dance with an option in Dance Performance
| Course # | Course Name | Units | Type | *Denotes new courses CC Denotes co-convened. Some coursework is co-convened to provide to the graduate students the benefit of dancers on which to set and present material. This is the case for DNC545 A & B, DNC596E and DNC595A. GO denotes Graduate Only courses |
| DNC543 | Ensemble | 2 | CC | |
| DNC545A OR DNC545B | Advanced Choreography OR Advanced Choreography | 2 total | GO | |
| DNC546A | Careers in Dance | 3 | CC | |
| DNC555 | Biomechanics for Dancers | 3 | CC | |
| DNC591 001 | Preceptorship (Teaching Methods) | 1 | GO | |
| DNC591 002 | Preceptorship (Large Lecture) | 3 | GO | |
| DNC591 003 | Preceptorship (Based on student’s plan of study) | 3 | GO | |
| DNC595A | Teaching Methods for Dance | 3 | CC | |
| DNC596A | Critical Issues in Dance | 3 | GO | |
| DNC596E | Seminar in Music and Dance Collaborations | 3 | CC | |
| *DNC694A 002 | Master’s Project in Performance (2 projects) | 6 | GO | |
| DNC696A | Graduate Forum (1 unit each semester) | 4 | GO | |
| Technique Classes | Some combination of the following: DNC540A and/or B Advanced Ballet DNC541A and/or B Advanced Modern DNC544A and/or B Advanced Jazz DNC551B Ballet Repertoire | 9 total | CC | |
| *DNC696B | Seminar in Graduate Technique (2 units per semester) | 6 total | GO | |
| *DNC909 002 | Masters Report Performance (Final project) | 5-9 | GO | |
| TOTAL | Core Curriculum | 56-60 | ||
| Electives | 4 | |||
| TOTAL UNITS | MFA Total units | 60 |
Each student must qualify to enter candidacy for the objective degree by completing the core courses in the specified track (performance or choreography) as well as successful completion of the Progress and Candidacy Projects.
These are the terminal requirements for each student to be admitted to the MFA candidacy. The entire dance faculty, in consultation, determines the success or failure of the student’s bid to become a candidate. Following successful completion of the Candidacy Semester Project, the student may select a chairperson and committee for her/his Final Project and register for DNC909.