Home

Minor in Performing Arts

The Performing Arts Minor offers students opportunities to study any combination of dance, music, and theatre that they are interested in. Students can focus on one of these art forms or take a more interdisciplinary approach. Our approach to the performing arts is embedded in this minor and is rigorous, inclusive, creative, and adaptive to student needs.

The minor is 20 units.

Required coursework (7 units)

Take all three:

  • DANC 334 Healing Our World through Ancestral Performance Practices (3 units; GE-UD-3, Sustainability)
  • DANC 360 Inclusive Interdisciplinary Ensemble Performance (1 unit)
  • MUS 108 The Language of Music (3 units; GE-3A)

Ensemble participation (3 units minimum)

  • DANC 360 Inclusive Interdisciplinary Ensemble Performance (1 unit)
  • DANC 370 Dance Ensemble Performance (1 unit)
  • MUS 351A Choir: Voices of Hope (1 unit)
  • MUS 351B Choir: East Bay Singers (1 unit)
  • MUS 355 East Bay Jazz Orchestra (1 unit)
  • MUS 360 Rock Band (1 unit)
  • MUS 363 Percussion Ensemble (1 unit)
  • MUS 363B Taiko Drumming Ensemble (1 unit)
  • MUS 365 Chamber Orchestra (1 unit)
  • MUS 369B Chamber Singers (1 unit)
  • MUS 369C Jazz Singers (1 unit)
  • MUS 369D A Cappella Ensemble (1 unit)

Technique (3 units minimum)

  • DANC 116 Dance Partnering I (1 unit)
  • MUS 103A Elementary Piano for Non-Majors I (1 unit)
  • MUS 103B Elementary Piano for Non-Majors II (1 unit)
  • MUS 236 Basic Vocal Techniques (1 unit)
  • MUS 381 Essentials of Music Technology (3 units)
  • THEA 110 Discover Acting (3 units; GE-3A)
  • THEA 252 Voice and Movement for Actors (2 units)
  • THEA 254 Acting and Diversity (3 units; GE-3B, Diversity)
  • THEA 371 Musical Theatre Techniques (3 units)

Pedagogy (3 units)

Take one course in teaching the arts:

  • DANC 341 Dance for Children (3 units; GE-UD-3)
  • MUS 331 Foundations of Music Education (3 units)
  • THEA 341 Dramatic Activities for Children (3 units; GE-UD-3)

Electives (4 units minimum)

Students complete at least 4 units of coursework with the prefix DANC, MUS, or THEA, chosen with an advisor. Courses used for another area of the minor don't count toward electives, except units of a course that allows repeated enrollment for credit beyond those the other area requires.