Program Recognition
•Bullet: Accelerated joint pathway between Mason Gross's NASD-accredited Dance Department and the Rutgers Graduate School of Education.
Training
•Bullet: Five-year 4+1 route that delivers a BFA, an Ed.M., and initial K-12 dance teacher certification, exclusively for Mason Gross BFA Dance majors.
•Bullet: Coursework combines 27 undergraduate credits (sophomore through senior year) with 35 graduate credits in the fifth year, totaling 62 credits.
•Bullet: Builds culturally responsive teaching skills plus strategies for collaborating with students, families, and community educators.
Professional Development
•Bullet: Year five is full-time graduate study with a student-teaching internship.
•Bullet: Culminates in a teaching portfolio and the edTPA performance assessment, leading to a CEAS recommendation from the GSE.
Degree Flexibility
•Bullet: Lets BFA dancers fold a master's and teaching license into a single extra year — students apply before spring of junior year and enter the education sequence the summer before senior year.
