Dance Education M.A. - Licensure: Dance (Grades K-12)
College of Performing and Visual Arts
Degree Requirements — 57-60 Credits
The program will be delivered through both on line learning and on campus classes. The on line learning would take place during the fall and spring semesters, while the students would be on campus during the summers for face-to-face intensive classes. The summer classes would include three classes taught over a three week time period.
PTEP Program Requirements:
Teacher candidates who complete an approved content degree and the UNC professional teacher education program, as well as pass the appropriate Colorado Department of Education designated PRAXIS exam (if applicable), will be eligible for recommendation from UNC for a Colorado Department of Education teaching license.
If you are seeking licensure in your program area, the following items are required to complete your program.
- Completion of EDFE 110 or Application for Initial Admission to PTEP
- Completion of EDFE 120 or Full Admission to PTEP
- Completion of EDFE 130 or Application for Student Teaching
- Successfully pass content specific PRAXIS test prior to Student Teaching
- Candidates may not take extra courses with Student Teaching without prior approval from the Program Coordinator and the STE Director.
- All PTEP Field Experiences and methods courses need to be successfully completed prior to Student Teaching.
- Student Teaching outside the supervision of UNC Faculty may or may not be approved.
- Teacher Candidates will not be placed in a school where they were once students or where they have a close relative attending and/or working.
- Teacher education and educator preparation licensure programs do not accept Professional Teacher Education Program (PTEP) or field based courses that are more than ten years old. PLEASE NOTE: Teacher Candidates have the right to petition this policy at the discretion of the program coordinator.
Please work with your content advisor to determine when these requirements will be completed throughout your program.
Degree Requirements
Required Common PTEP - 24 credit hours
| EDF 500 | Conceptions of Schooling | 3 |
| EDFE 130 | Application for Student Teaching | 0 |
| EDFE 554 | Secondary Practicum | 3 |
| EDFE 555 | Supervised Student Teaching | 1- 9 |
| EDRD 523 | Academic Language/Literacy Development for Diverse Learners in School Settings | 3 |
| EDSE 509 | Strategies for Students with Exceptionalities | 3 |
| PSY 500 | Educational Psychology for Teachers | 3 |
Required Courses 33-36 Credits
| DNCE 550 | Dance History - Tribal Cultures to Current Times | 3 |
| DNCE 560 | Dance Movement Skills & Pedagogical Approaches | 3 |
| DNCE 565 | Interdisciplinary Teaching and Advocacy in Dance | 3 |
| DNCE 570 | Doing, Teaching & Appreciating Choreography & Creative Dance I | 3 |
| DNCE 575 | Dance Lesson, Curriculum and Assessment Design | 3 |
| DNCE 600 | Movement and Dance - Framing a Research Question | 3 |
| DNCE 690 | Thesis I | 3 |
| DNCE 693 | Popular Dance Forms | 3 |
| DNCE 695 | Doing, Teaching and Appreciating Choreography II | 3 |
| DNCE 697 | Dance Production Techniques | 3 |
| DNCE 699 | Thesis II | 3- 6 |
The Coordinator of the M.A. in Dance Education degree program will assign each student an academic advisor and a graduate committee in accordance with Graduate School policy. The academic advisor will serve as the chair of the graduate committee.
It is recommended that students have a graduate committee review each semester. The student will discuss the graduate review with the academic advisor and the Coordinator of the M.A. in Dance Education Program. The student will assume responsibility for scheduling graduate reviews. Two unsuccessful graduate reviews will be considered grounds for termination of the student’s involvement in the program. In conjunction with DNCE 690 and DNCE 699, the student will prepare and submit a written thesis proposal. Prior to beginning work on the thesis, the thesis proposal must be approved by all members of the student’s graduate committee.
A written research thesis is required of all Master of Arts degree candidates in the School of Theatre Arts and Dance.
Upon completion of the program, the student will be required to demonstrate competence in the designated area of concentration in accordance with approved school standards. The student’s committee must approve the candidate for graduation.