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Dance

Mount Holyoke College · South Hadley, MA

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Program
Award
Dance
Total credits (published)
24
Catalog edition
Catalog 2026-27
Checklist type
degree-program
Description
Dance majors at Mount Holyoke College explore the broad, rich field of dance with faculty mentors who help students identify their unique paths through a curriculum designed to prepare students for a life in the arts. Students experience rigorous technique courses in multiple and diverse dance forms and explore performance, making, music and theory. Through creative, embodied research, students synthesize their Mount Holyoke liberal arts experience with their Dance majors. A Dance degree can lead to career opportunities specific to the dance field as performer, choreographer, dance company director, and teacher, and extend to work further afield.
Identifiers
IPEDS UNITID
166939
CourseShelf checklist
CK_166939_484e2986_1
CollegeTransfer.Net
Institution Transfer Profile
Source
CourseShelf publish 61

Requirements to complete

Every course or condition the catalog lists, in the catalog's order.

Requirements for the Major

major core · 0 items

    Core Courses:

    major core · 3 items
    1. DANCE 151
      4
    2. DANCE 252
      4
    3. DANCE 390
      Advanced Seminar in Research, Choreography and Production
      As published: “Advanced Seminar in Research, Choreography and Production (2 cr fall and 2 cr spring)”
      4

    Theory & Context - 4 credits each in three of these four categories: 1

    0 items

      Music for Dance:

      1 item
      1. DANCE 287
        Rhythmic Analysis
        or: DANCE-387 Rhythmic Analysis II: Performance

      Dance & Culture

      1 item
      1. DANCE 272
        Dance and Culture
        As published: “Dance and Culture 2”

      Dance History:

      1 item
      1. DANCE 171
        Studies in Dance History
        As published: “Studies in Dance History 3”

      Scientific Foundations:

      1 item
      1. DANCE 241
        Scientific Foundations of Dance
        As published: “Scientific Foundations of Dance 4”
        or: DANCE-338 Mobilizing the Hippocampus

      Technique: 5

      0 items

        At least eight 2-credit courses of dance technique including:

        0 items

          At least three different idioms from ballet, modern, street styles, and West African

          0 items

            At least two technique courses at the 300 level

            0 items

              Requirements for the Minor

              6 items
              1. DANCE 151
                4
              2. DANCE 171
                4
              3. DANCE 241
                4
              4. DANCE 272
                4
              5. A minimum of two courses of dance technique or repertory (DANCE-305)
                Not resolved to a course
                4
              6. An additional 4 credits of dance at the 300 level, either in theory or technique
                Not resolved to a course
                4
              Source. Mount Holyoke College, catalog Catalog 2026-27 — http://catalog.mtholyoke.edu/areas-study/dance/. Captured page pages/0061.html.gz. Assembled from the institution's published catalog as captured; every record names its captured page and source URL. Assembled, not asserted.