Whether you are preparing for a career in dance or taking dance courses, College of DuPage has the right program for you. COD offers:

• Dedicated instructors with years of professional experience.
• Instruction utilizing top-notch facilities, equipment and resources.
• Affordable programs to help students achieve success without creating overwhelming debt or draining a savings account.
• Small class sizes that ensure students receive personalized attention from instructors.
• Articulated transfer programs with several prestigious institutions.
• Exceptional stages including the Belushi Performance Center in the McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage.
• Opportunities to study and/or work with nationally and internationally recognized guest teachers and choreographers

Dance Transfer Pathway, A.A.

What is a Transfer Pathway?

A transfer pathway represents a typical course schedule/sequence for a student planning to complete the A.A. degree within two years, then transfer and major in a specific discipline. A transfer pathway is not institution-specific.

It is important to understand that the pathway provided in the adjacent tab is just one possible combination of classes by which to complete an A.A. and prepare for transfer in your chosen area of study. Other course combinations and sequences can work, too. It is strongly recommended that students work directly and frequently with a COD academic counselor/advisor, a COD faculty advisor, and academic counselors/advisors at potential transfer schools, to develop and execute a plan that works best for them.

Academic and Career Pathways give you a roadmap to achieving your career goals. Follow a pathway based on your degree or certificate that outlines which classes you need to take and when so you graduate on time or move on to the next phase in your career.

• Associate in Arts Degree

Dance Program graduates will: 

• Develop the knowledge and skills to perform, appreciate, understand, and interrogate dance as an art form utilizing physical practices and critical studies of dance and the related arts.
• Integrate diverse aesthetics, scholarship, and praxis involving theory of dance, dance as a physical practice, and choreography and performance as a form of artistic investigation and research.
• Model and integrate rigorous training, body mechanics and functional alignment, inclusive spaces, and personal agency within various multifaceted dance practices.
• Demonstrate an integrated knowledge of the historical contexts of dance as an art form and of the physical practices of dance in its many forms.