Dance Minors
Bring Dance Into Your Degree
Customize your dance minor to align with your interests and goals. Whether you’re preparing for graduate study, pursuing a career in performance, choreography, education or dance therapy, or complementing studies in fields such as engineering, design, film, Africana studies, medicine or physical therapy, you’ll build creative, collaborative and analytical skills that support your future.
Our two dance minor tracks let you choose whether to pursue a focused study of your area of interest or explore dance on a broader level.
Dance Performance and Choreography
Overview
The Dance Performance and Choreography Minor is a 17-credit-hour curriculum that trains students to create, perform and analyze dance as an art form. Students gain skills in performance and choreography, participate in artistic experimentation and performance, explore theoretical and aesthetic content, and engage in intellectual discourse. Capstone projects in areas of interest can lay the foundation for future endeavors.
Admission
Current NC State students can use the self-service Change of Degree Application (CODA) portal to add the dance minor to their degree plan. Afterward, a dance minor advisor will contact you to discuss your goals and plan of study. Prospective students do not need to declare the minor in advance of their admission to the university.
Dance Studies
Overview
The Dance Studies Minor is a 15-credit-hour curriculum designed for undergraduate students who wish to acquire a broad understanding of dance or tailor their studies to suit a more specific interest. The curriculum offers a wide range of dance styles and content, with attention to the history and sociocultural factors that shape dance.
Admission
Current NC State students can use the self-service Change of Degree Application (CODA) portal to add the dance minor to their degree plan. Afterward, a dance minor advisor will contact you to discuss your goals and plan of study. Prospective students do not need to declare the minor in advance of their admission to the university.