Catalog Navigator : Five-Year Program in Dance Education (Certification: Teacher of Dance [K-12])

Director: Frederick Curry (848-932-1372; email: fcurry@mgsa.rutgers.edu)

This program is open to students who are majoring in dance (B.F.A.).

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For additional information please visit: http://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/content/bfa-dance-performance.

Program Description: The five-year teacher education program in dance education leads to a bachelor's degree, a master's degree, and initial teacher certification. Rutgers Undergraduate do preliminary coursework and field placements as assigned during the sophomore and junior years, are admitted to the program during the spring semester of the junior year, and enter the prfessional education sequence in the summer between junior and senior years. Students then qualify to have their bachelor's degree awarded by Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Students continue with the professional sequence the summer after graduation. They return in the fall to complete a student-teaching internship with related coursework and continue with full-time graduate study, including a field-based research project, in the spring. The Ed.M. degree is conferred upon the completion of all five-year program requirements.

After the master's degree is awarded, the GSE will make a recommendation to the New Jersey State Department of Education on behalf of the student to receive a CEAS as a teacher.

Education Requirements:

Pre-Admission Core Courses (9.5 credits)

05:300:200 Introduction to Education (3)
05:300:201 Introduction to Education Field-Based Lab - Clinical Experience (.5)
05:300:306 Educational Psychology: Principles of Classroom Learning (3)
07:207:405 Motor Learning and Control for Dance Pedagogy (3)

General Education Requirements (9 credits)

07:206:325 Kinesiology for Dancers (completed as part of B.F.A. dance curriculum) (3)

05:300:350 Education and Computers or 15:255:503 Teaching with Digital Tools (3)

05:300:307 Human Development: Infancy Through Early Adulthood (3)

Dance Education (21 credits)

07:207:406 Introduction to Curriculum Design and Assessment for Dance (3)

07:207:407 Dance Technique Pedagogy (3)

07:207:408 Creative Dance and Choreography Pedagogy (3)

07:207:501 Teaching Concepts in Dance for Students with Special Needs (3)

08:207:502 Embodied Dance History Pedagogy (3)

08:207:510 Introduction to Research in Dance Education (3)

08:207:511 Leadership in Dance Education (3)

Common Professional Education Core (12 credits)

05:300:450 Urban Education I (1.5)
05:300:451 Urban Education II (1.5)
05:300:452 Teaching Emerging Bilinguals in PK-12 Classroom I (1.5)
05:300:453 Teaching Emerging Bilinguals in PK-12 Classroom II (1.5)

15:255:534 Classroom Organization for Inclusive and Special Classrooms (3)

15:255:539 Students, Communities, and Social Justice (3)

Clinical Experience (19.5 credits)

05:300:498 Clinical Experience Phase 1 (.5)

05:300:488 Dance Clinical Practice Phase 2 (2)

05:400:489 Dance Clinical Practice Phase 2A (2)

15:255:535 Clinical Practice Phase 3 (9)

15:255:536 Clinical Practice Phase 3 Seminar (6)

B.F.A. Major Requirements (120 credits)

Every five-year candidate for certification in dance education must complete a full major in dance (B.F.A.).

Liberal Arts

Students must complete a minimum of 60 credits in liberal arts to earn the master's degree. Neither education courses, nor any other performance-based or vocationally oriented coursework (accounting, engineering, human resource management, public health, social work, etc.) may be counted toward the 60 liberal arts credits; no School 05, School 15, or E-credit courses may be included.