Undergraduate Certificate Programs in Music and Dance

Undergraduate Certificate Programs in Music and Dance

The Boyer College offers a wide range of Undergraduate Certificate Programs, each designed to develop significant knowledge and performance experience in a music or dance field. These programs provide opportunities to experience the excitement of Center for the Performing and Cinematic Arts courses in a coherent disciplinary context beyond that which is possible in random course election.
Graded experiences will be recognized on the final transcript. Certificates are awarded only at the time of completion of the bachelor’s degree and cannot be awarded either as a stand-alone program of study or after completion of the bachelor’s degree.
Certificates are available in the following:

Chamber Music	Jazz Improvisation	Music Theory: Traditional
Classical Piano	Jazz Piano	Music Theory: Jazz
Classical Voice	Jazz Voice	Orchestral Music
Dance	Music	Performing Arts
Jazz Arranging	Music Composition	Technology
Jazz Composition	Music History

ADMISSION

• All applicants must complete an online application. Admission requires students to be in good standing and have completed at least 15 credits at TU by the initial requested semester of certificate coursework. Some programs require an audition or portfolio submission as noted below.
• All application materials must be submitted by November 30 for Spring semester matriculation and May 15 for Fall semester matriculation.
• Only one program may be selected. There will be no concurrent multiple program admission.
• Advising and course selection will occur after admission. A grad of C- or higher must be earned in all required courses to receive the certificate.

REQUIREMENTS

• Specific additional admission requirements and course requirements are as follows:Dance
  Admission: Submit a video recording (DVD) of a self-choreographed solo (two minutes maximum) which demonstrates the applicant’s ability to develop movement ideas using some basic elements of composition.

Courses	Credits
DANC 1804 | Jazz Dance	2
DANC 1807 | Hatha Yoga I or DANC 2822 | Pilates: Body Conditioning	2
DANC 1811 | Movement Improvisation I	2
DANC 1815 | Modern Dance Technique I A or DANC 1831 | Ballet I or DANC 2844 | Hip Hop	2
DANC 1852 | Ways of Knowing Dance	2
DANC 2853 | African Dance	2
Total	12