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Los Angeles: Departments
Dance
Dentistry
Design/Media Arts
Diversified Liberal Arts
Dance
The dance program at the Los Angeles campus
was for many years a part of the physical education department.
Classes were offered for the physical education major and general
college students.
In 1957, a separate dance major was established
so that students could pursue a concentrated study of dance as an
art experience. In 1962, a graduate program of study leading to
the M.A. degree in dance was approved. Also in 1962, the Department
of Dance was established and administratively related to the College
of Fine Arts. This arrangement allowed dance to develop more fully
and to take its rightful place with departments of theater arts,
music and art.
The student enrollment has increased from ten
majors originally, to a 1965 enrollment of 63 majors and 23 graduate
students. The faculty increased from four to nine full-time faculty
members and seven teaching assistants. Many non-majors studied dance.
Two-unit courses for the general college student replaced the one-half
unit courses originally associated with the physical education requirement.
Since the establishment of the department, there
were significant increases in cooperative work with other departments,
including theater arts, opera workshop, folk arts, and the Neuropsychiatric
Institute. By the mid-1960s, an expansion in ethnic dance paralleled and
made possible cooperative work with the program in ethnomusicology.
One important achievement in the mid-1960s was
the development of library holdings.
Professional dance artists were invited to teach
during the summer session so that dance majors and teachers could
come in contact with professional points of view and with different
approaches to dance.
The dance concerts presented by the department
increased in number and in quality. In ten years, the programs evolved
from noon concerts to several major productions offered as evening
concerts. The presentations included concerts by master's degree
candidates, undergraduate majors and faculty members. These presentations
were an important factor in building a dance audience in Los Angeles.
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