Department website: https://www.cerritos.edu/dance/

CERTIFICATE OF ACHIEVEMENT

The goal of the Dance Foundations Certificate is to provide a broad overview of the dance world, while introducing students to the techniques of several dance genres. This Certificate is designed to familiarize incoming dance students with the immense diversity in the dance world, as well as the work ethic, etiquette, and physical practice required for all dance forms.

Prerequisite Skills and Limitations: None

Program Student Learning Outcomes

• Create and perform extended dance compositions in studio settings
• Recognize and identify dance as an element of cultures worldwide
• Recognizes basic body positions, steps, and rhythms of multiple dance techniques
• Establish an awareness of the fundamental components of movement
• Recognize multiple concert and folk dance forms
• Recognize and identify basic dance terminology with the ability to translate the terms into movement practice in studio settings

Program Requirements

Course List

Code Number	Course Title	Units
Required Core
DANC 100	Dance Appreciation	3.0
DANC 105	Introduction to Dance Movement	3.0
DANC 106A	Beginning Ballet	2.0
DANC 108A	Dance, Modern, Beginning	2.0
DANC 110	Commercial Dance Foundations	2.0
DANC 130A	Beginning Choreography	2.0
DANC 140	Beginning Jazz Dance	2.0
Subtotal		16
Select a minimum of 4 units from the course listed below		4.0
DANC 109	Introduction to Dance Cultures of the World (2)
DANC 121	Latin Social Dance (2)
DANC 122	Middle Eastern Dance (2)
DANC 123	African Dance (2)
DANC 125	Introduction to Ballroom Dance (2)
DANC 142	Beginning Tap Dance (2)
Total Units		20