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Program Description

The Dance Minor is designed to be flexible yet ensure that students grapple with the fundamental practices of doing, making, and thinking dance. Included in the curriculum are courses that explore choreographing dance and studying dance as a historical and cultural behavior, as well as more familiar dance technique courses.

Department of Performing and Media Arts Minors

The Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) offers four minors. In addition, the Department administers the interdisciplinary Media Studies minor. The minors are open to all undergraduate students in the university, including those outside the College of Arts & Sciences. All credit toward the minor must be from PMA courses taken at Cornell or from PMA courses taken with Cornell approved programs. Independent Study courses do not count toward any PMA minor.

Academic Standards

Grade Requirements

Each course must be completed with a grade of C or better to count toward the minor. If a course is offered only S-U, a grade of S is acceptable.

Minor Declaration Information 

To declare a minor, you will need to contact the Director of Undergraduate Study. 

Minor must be declared before week three of the final semester of enrollment at Cornell. Students should declare as early as possible to gain the appropriate advising to fulfill the minor.

Program Information

• Minimum Credits for Minor: 18

Minor Requirements

All courses must be taken for 3-credits or more, except in the case of the Production Labs.

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Required Courses 1
PMA 2300	Dance Composition	3
PMA 3226	Global Dance and Decolonizing Movement	4
or PMA 3750	Global Theatre and Performance
Three additional courses focused on dance, excluding Production Laboratory courses
PMA 1410	Media Production Laboratory 2	2
or PMA 1610	Production Technology Laboratory

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First-year Writing Seminars do not count for the minor.

Cross listed courses not taught or co-taught by PMA faculty will not count as credit for any PMA Minor. Courses taken through Study Abroad programs, other than those directly affiliated with Cornell (such as Cornell-in-Rome), cannot be used toward the minor.

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Credits earned from Production Labs can only be used to fulfill the Production Lab requirement.