ProgramCIP 50.0301

Dance, General

A general program that prepares individuals to express ideas, feelings, and/or inner visions through the performance of one or more of the dance disciplines, including but not limited to ballet, modern, jazz, ethnic, and folk dance, and that focuses on the study and analysis of dance as a cultural phenomenon. Includes instruction in technique, choreography, Laban notation, dance history and criticism, and dance production.

Definition from U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (CIP 2020).

Also called Dance Movement Studies.