Course Overview
This course will prepare you to share your passion for dance with others and teach in a variety of settings including mainstream schools, youth dance companies, community classes, or by working with older adults. This BA (Hons) Dance Education and Teaching degree offers regular opportunities to perform alongside teaching work placements and specific education modules to inform your teaching career. You will have the opportunity complete an industrial placement year and graduate with industry experience.
This course will develop your understanding of the core principles of dance technique and choreography while enhancing your creative skills and developing your knowledge, skills, and understanding of teaching. You will gain an understanding of dance history and consider the social and political factors that impact the arts. You will study a variety of teaching settings and learn how to plan, deliver and facilitate student-led and community or school-based projects.
Key Facts
- Full-time- 3 years
- Start Date- September
Entry requirements
- UCAS 96-112 tariff points from A levels or combination with AS / EPQ / BTEC/ Cambridge Technical.
- A-Levels- BBB-CCC
- BTEC/Cambridge Technical – DDD-DMM
- IB- 28 points
- IELTS- 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5
Careers
You could become a:
- Teacher in primary, secondary, further, and higher education (with postgraduate study)
- Worker in a youth dance company (leading and teaching)
- Community dance artist
- Dance movement psychotherapist (with postgraduate study)
- Postgraduate study and research student
You will need to complete further study to qualify as a Dance Teacher in a school. We guarantee you an interview for the PGCE Dance program once you graduate from this course, as long as you hold English and Maths GCSEs at grade C/4 or higher.
Course Content
- Dance Techniques
- Choreography and Devising
- Choreography and Performance
- Movement Studies: Analysis and Awareness
- Applications of Psychology in Dance
- Examining Dance History
- Re-examining Dance
- Repertory
- Safe Dance Practice (connected with Safe in Dance International certificate)
- The Dancer’s Body
- Industry Placement
- Dance Education – Culture and Community
- Teaching Dance Technique
- Popular Dance: Street, Stage, Screen
- Principles of Motor Learning for Dance
- Applied Dance: Community Production & Administration (Placement)
- Dance Movement Psychotherapy (1 & 2)