Intercollegiate Program
•Offered in partnership with Pomona College through the intercollegiate Dance Department serving all five Claremont Colleges
•Access to dance resources, faculty, and courses across the 5C consortium
Training
•Movement Studies concentrators examine the role of the body and human movement across disciplines
•Coursework emphasizes anatomy, body mechanics, motion analysis, and cultural context
•Concentrators build vocabulary for writing and speaking about movement relative to their chosen area of interest
•Faculty are professional dancers, choreographers, researchers, and scholars
Degree Flexibility
•Students may connect dance with fields such as biology, neuroscience, anthropology, religious studies, psychology, or the arts
•Senior work culminates in a written thesis, research project, or internship-based project that may or may not involve performance
•Regular dance or movement practice supports embodied understanding