The curriculum of the Department of Theatre and Dance is based on the belief that a good undergraduate education in theatre or dance should provide the student with a solid background in dramatic literature and the aesthetics and history of theatrical performance as well as exposure to the different artistic components of theatrical art-performance, playwriting, design, and choreography. The department's undergraduate faculty advisers can provide guidance and answers to students' questions concerning specific course content, transfer course work, honors research projects, academic success, production, auditioning procedures, postgraduate opportunities, and departmental policy changes. The dance major offers students an opportunity to specialize their training in the creative, aesthetic, and conceptual discipline of dance as a contemporary art form, within the context of a broad undergraduate education. The dance major allows students to study a range of techniques and dance practices that include traditional and contemporary forms, world dance, somatic movement approaches, dance making, history, and theory. Our program emphasizes innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration, encourages hybridization of dance vocabularies, and aims to push forward the boundaries of dance as a culturally and aesthetically diverse art form. Integral to the practice and appreciation of dance is relationship, interaction, and exchange with others, both physically and intellectually. Our program fosters an open, respectful, imaginative, inventive, and noncompetitive approach to all areas of practice, and encourages students to be self-motivated, rigorous, proactive, and reflective to prepare them for the demands of a variety of professional careers.