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Professor Getschman  

Mission

Dance and Movement Studies centers on investigative collaboration between students and instructors. Together, they explore the origins, histories, and evolutions of specific dance styles and somatic practices as well as the relationship between peoples and their cultures as expressed through movement. Dance and Movement Studies empowers each student to align their identities with physical actions, to express their innate selves through movement and somatic practices, and to explain their embodied self authentically through oral and written communication. This program provides students with the opportunity to actively seek and gather the necessary experiences and tools to discover and nurture the self physically, mentally, emotionally. 

Dance and Movement Studies is a minor program in the Visual and Performing Arts area of study and is part of the Department of Communication, Media, and Performance, which emphasizes a liberal arts approach to learning that encourages students to develop habits of cultural awareness and respect, engaged citizenship, thoughtful professionalism, and a meaningful private life in order to contribute to a more equitable world.

Courses

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Programs

• Dance and Movement Studies Minor

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