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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Dance (BA) Sample Plan


Year One

Fall Spring
EN - 103 Composition and Rhetoric I   3 EN - 104 Composition and Rhetoric II   3
PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking  or Expanded Literacies (1/6)  3 PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking  or Expanded Literacies (1/6)  3
UNIV - 101 First-Year Experience   3 Expanded Literacies (2/6) 3
Modern Dance Technique Course* 1.5 Modern Dance Technique Course* 1.5
Ballet Technique Course* 1.5 Hip Hop Dance Technique Course* 1.5
Hip Hop Dance Technique Course* 1.5 DA - 147 Dance in World Cultures   3
DA - 154 First-Year Dance Seminar   3    
TOTAL CREDITS 16.5 TOTAL CREDITS 15

Year Two

Fall Spring
TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or Expanded Literacies (3/6) 3 TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or Expanded Literacies (3/6) 3
Expanded Literacies (4/6) or Free Elective 3 Expanded Literacies (4/6) or Free Elective 3
Hip Hop Dance Technique Course* 3 Modern Technique Course* 1.5
Ballet Technique Course* 3 Ballet Technique Course* 1.5
DA - 231 Dance Composition I   3 DA - 232 Dance Composition II   3
Free Elective 3 Free Elective 3
UNIV - 110 Being Well  or FN - 100 Financial Literacy   1 UNIV - 110 Being Well  or FN - 100 Financial Literacy   1
TOTAL CREDITS 16 TOTAL CREDITS 16

Year Three

Fall Spring
Lens 1, 2, or 3 (1/3) 3 Lens 1, 2, or 3 (2/3) 3
Expanded Literacies (5/6) or Free Elective 3 Expanded Literacies (5/6) or Free Elective 3
DA - 348 Evolution of Ballet and Modern   3 Expanded Literacies (6/6)  3
Modern Dance Technique Course* 1.5 Hip Hop Dance Technique Course* 1.5
Ballet Technique Course* 1.5 DA - 380 Hip-Hop and Social Justice   3
Dance Elective** 3 Free Elective 3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 16.5

Year Four

Fall Spring
Catholicism in Dialogue or Lens 1, 2, or 3 (3/3) 3 Catholicism in Dialogue or Lens 1, 2, or 3 (3/3) 3
Ballet Technique Course* or Hip Hop 
Dance Technique Course*
1.5 Hip Hop Dance Technique Course* or Ballet 
Technique Course*
1.5
DA - 454 Senior Dance Seminar   3 Modern Dance Technique Course* 1.5
DA - 461 Kinesiology for Dancers   3 Dance Elective** 3
Free Elective 3 Free Elective 3
TOTAL CREDITS 13.5 TOTAL CREDITS 12

TOTAL OVERAL CREDITS: 120.5

*Class-level placement for 1.5 credit Technique courses determined by faculty. See Undergraduate Catalog for proficiency-level requirements for graduation.

**Choose Two of the Following Dance Electives: DA 143 , DA 310 , DA 350 , DA 360 , DA 371 ; TR 210 ; TV 225 .

For more information about the requirements in our general education Connections Curriculum, which are included in the sample plan above, please see I. General Education (Connections Curriculum), which can be found in The Undergraduate Program .