Minor Program Coordinator: Judith Howard
Minor Requirements – 36 Total Credits
The Minor in Dance is for the student who is interested in continuing and deepening their focus on dance. It can provide an opportunity for cross disciplinary work and connecting dance studies with another major. Acceptance to the program is based on personal interviews with the program director.
Movement Practice and Performance – Required Minimum 12 credits
It is recommended that at least one movement practice class be taken per term. Additional movement practice classes offered at Carleton or through OCS may qualify with permission from the program director.
Required Movement Practice and Performance Courses – (3 Credits)
At least one credit of each of the following:
- DANC 205: Winter Dance (1 credit)
- DANC 206: Spring Dance (1 credit)
- DANC 215: Winter Dance, Student Choreography (1 credit)
Elective Movement Practice and Performance Courses – (9 credits)
- DANC 107: Ballet I
- DANC 147: Moving Anatomy
- DANC 148: Modern Dance I: Technique and Theory
- DANC 150: Contact Improvisation
- DANC 158: Contemporary Dance Forms I
- DANC 171: Dance for Musical Theater
- DANC 172: Contemporary Experiments (not offered 2025-26)
- DANC 189: Music Theatre Practicum
- DANC 200: Modern Dance II: Technique and Theory
- DANC 205: Winter Dance
- DANC 206: Spring Dance
- DANC 208: Ballet II
- DANC 210: Contemporary Dance Forms II
- DANC 215: Winter Dance, Student Choreography
- DANC 253: Movement for the Performer
- DANC 254: Jazz Dance: Roots and Grooves (not offered 2025-26)
- DANC 300: Modern Dance III: Technique and Theory (not offered 2025-26)
- DANC 301: West African Dance
- DANC 309: Ballet III
- DANC 310: Contemporary Dance Forms III
- DANC 350: Semaphore Repertory Dance Company
Choreography Courses – Required Minimum 12 credits
- DANC 190: Fields of Performance
- DANC 268: The Body as Choreographer
- DANC 295: Dance Lab (not offered 2025-26)
History, Theory, and Literature Course – Required Minimum 6 credits
- DANC 211: Cultures of Dance (not offered 2025-26)
- DANC 254: Jazz Dance: Roots and Grooves (not offered 2025-26)
- DANC 266: Reading the Dancing Body (not offered 2025-26)
- DANC 270: Performance As Ceremony
Required Elective Course – Required Minimum 6 credits
A minimum of 6 additional credits in any of the three categories:
- Movement Practice and Performance
- Choreography
- History, Theory, and Literature