2020/2021 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Dance
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OFFICE: Music 112
TELEPHONE: 619-594-6031 / FAX: 619-594-1692
E-MAIL: music.dance@sdsu.edu
Undergraduate Information
Faculty
Emeritus: Hempel, Nunn, Sandback, Willis
Director: Lipscomb
Division Coordinator: Seiters
Professor: Seiters
Associate Professors: Alter, Humphrey
Assistant Professor: Oh
Lecturer: Irey
The Major
Dance serves to enhance the lives of all peoples and provides a challenging avenue of creative expression for those who wish to pursue its serious study. This program promotes dance as a communicative and expressive medium uniquely effective in the conveyance of meaning, emotion, and cultural values. Dance is a rigorous and specialized area of the performing arts, demanding a high level of physical preparation as well as a thorough understanding of aesthetics.
The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance provides professional preparation for dance majors in choreography, performance, scholarship, and teaching; more specifically, as choreographers and dancers with professional companies, teachers in community and recreation programs, schools and colleges, movement educators, and candidates for graduate work in dance scholarship.
The Bachelor of Arts in Dance is a liberal arts degree for those students who seek an understanding of and an intimate orientation to the discipline of dance without professional goals. This degree enables students to obtain this broad understanding.
A minor in somatic studies is available in addition to the dance minor for those students whose primary interest is in another department.
As members of the University Dance Company, students perform in faculty choreography and repertory works set by distinguished guest artists in periodic workshops and residencies. Each B.F.A. student also stages original work in a senior concert. Dance activity courses provided in the school offer experiences for the general student population in contemporary modern and ballet.
Entrance and Progression Requirements
In addition to CSU and SDSU requirements, incoming students requesting the B.F.A. program in Dance will be required to perform an audition before the faculty in order to be admitted to the program. The audition will consist of:
- A technique class to include learning/repeating movement phrases, moving through space, and preparation.
- Guided processes of collaborating, making, and performing.
- The following qualities will be assessed:
- Basic technical skills in aptitude for learning, comprehension and application of instructions, and dance.
- Attentiveness, focus, presence, and quality of engagement.
- Ability to articulate desire to dance in college and interest in SDSU’s dance program.
In order to continue in the B.F.A. program in dance, students must demonstrate continuing progress in all areas of skill development, choreography, musical assessment, etc., in the following ways:
- Successful completion of all coursework as assessed through written examination and through continuous performance evaluation each semester.
- A commitment and respect for the disciplined study of dance and participation in a supportive learning environment.
- Junior Level Review: Students must successfully pass this review to continue into the junior year. Faculty will formally review coursework and meet individually with students to assess progress and quality of participation in the major.
Impacted Program
The dance major is an impacted program. To be admitted to the dance major, students must meet the following criteria:
- Complete preparation for the major;
- Complete a minimum of 60 transferable semester units;
- Have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0.
To complete the major, students must fulfill the degree requirements for the major described in the catalog in effect at the time they are accepted into the premajor at SDSU (assuming continuous enrollment).
Major Academic Plans (MAPs)
Visit http://www.sdsu.edu/mymap for the recommended courses needed to fulfill your major requirements. The MAPs website was created to help students navigate the course requirements for their majors and to identify which General Education course will also fulfill a major preparation course requirement.
Graduate Information
Faculty
Music
Scott D. Lipscomb, Ph.D., Professor of Music, Director of School
Donna M. Conaty, M.M., Professor of Music, Associate Dean of the College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts
Brenton P. Dutton, M.M., Professor of Music, Emeritus
Karen J. Follingstad, D.M.A., Professor of Music
Todd H. Rewoldt, D.M.A., Professor of Music
Eric S. Smigel, Ph.D., Professor of Music
Joseph M. Waters, Ph.D., Professor of Music
Bill R. Yeager, M.M., Professor of Music
Andrew I. Aziz, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Music
Kevin M. Delgado, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Music (Graduate Adviser)
Shannon M. Kitelinger, D.M.A., Associate Professor of Music
Richard O. Thompson, M.M., Associate Professor of Music
Arian Khaefi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Music
Karen M. Koner, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Music
Jennifer L. Potter, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Music
Christopher Warren, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Music
Markus Burger, M.F.A., Lecturer in Music
Charissa J. Noble, M.A., Lecturer in Music
Karl P. Soukup, M.M., Lecturer in Music
Applied Music Instruction
Bassoon: Martchev, V.
Cello: Greenbaum, Zhao
Chamber Music: Hausmann Quartet
Clarinet: Renk
Classical Guitar: Bassett, Benedetti, Wetzel
Composition: Dutton, Warren, Waters
Double Bass: Kurtz-Harris, Magnusson
Euphonium: Starr
Flute: Martchev, P.
Harp: Mashkovtseva
Horn: McCoy
Jazz Guitar: Boss
Jazz Studies: Burger, Soukup, Thompson, Yeager
Non-Western Instruments: Specialists from specific cultures as available each semester
Oboe: Conaty, Skuster
Percussion: Cohen, Weller, Whitman
Piano: Chong, Follingstad, James
Saxophone: Rewoldt, Rekevics
Trombone: Starr
Trumpet: Cannon, Wilds
Tuba: Dutton
Viola: Chen, Maril
Violin: Allen, Tsai
Voice: Bolzenthal, Hicks, Nikkel
Dance
Leslie A. Seiters, M.F.A., Professor of Dance
Joseph W. Alter, M.F.A., Associate Professor of Dance
Jessica R. Humphrey, M.F.A., Associate Professor of Dance
Chuyun Oh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Dance
Scholarships
Information on music scholarships may be obtained by writing to the chair, Music Scholarship Committee, School of Music and Dance, San Diego State University.
General Information
The School of Music and Dance offers graduate study leading to the Master of Arts degree in music and the Master of Music degree. The school also offers advanced coursework in dance that may be used toward fulfilling advanced degree requirements in Interdisciplinary Studies and in other departments with the approval of the student’s graduate adviser.
With approval of the school, students electing to pursue the Master of Arts degree may specialize in one of the following fields: musicology and music theory. Ethnomusicology and piano pedagogy are currently not accepting new graduate students. Master of Music students may specialize in composition, conducting, jazz studies, or performance.
Graduate students are prepared for careers that encompass scholarly research, teaching, performing, or creating new works.
Composition: Individual composition studies integrated with an awareness of global music practices.
Conducting: Literature and score analysis, hand techniques, rehearsal techniques, general preparation and performance in both the choral and instrumental areas.
Ethnomusicology: Study of global music with emphasis on cultural context, representation, ethnography, fieldwork, and performance. (Currently not accepting new graduate students.)
Jazz Studies: Education, research, performance, and composition in all styles of jazz.
Musicology: With the approval of the faculty, students may select a topic in medieval, renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic, twentieth century music, or American music.
Performance: Performance studies are offered on all instruments and voice.
Piano Pedagogy: Preparation of the teacher of the child, adolescent, or adult students. (Currently not accepting new graduate students)
Theory: Comprehension of and facility with historical analytic techniques.
The 78,000 square-foot music building, completed in 1970, includes a 300-seat recital hall, rehearsal rooms for instrumental and choral organizations, an electronic music studio, two class-piano laboratories, 71 individual practice rooms, and approximately 160 pianos and 800 other musical instruments. The university library contains an extensive collection of over 75,000 music books and scores.
The School of Music and Dance has a 24-station student computer laboratory that provides facilities for computer assisted instruction in music theory and ear training, software programs for graphics, music composition, and notation.
The electronic music composition studio includes the latest electronic music equipment available.
The School of Music and Dance houses numerous ethnic instruments including Balinese and Javanese Gamelans and numerous other musical instruments of the world.
Statement on Computers
Students must become competent in the operation of personal computers to include word processing software, presentation software, web-based applications, and music notation software. Students, especially those planning to pursue the composition or electro-acoustic composition track, are encouraged to own a Macintosh laptop computer capable of running sophisticated music notation/composition software. For additional information regarding suggested platform and software, contact the School of Music and Dance.
Admission to Graduate Study in Music
Applicants must have completed a bachelor’s degree with a major in music including preparation in performance, theory, music history, and literature, or hold a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution and present sufficient evidence of study and experience in music to demonstrate the equivalency of a bachelor’s degree with a major in music.
All domestic students must demonstrate a minimum 2.85 GPA. All foreign students must demonstrate a minimum 3.0 GPA and in cases where the primary instruction was in a language other than English, a minimum English language score of 550. Foreign applicants taking the computer-based English language test must achieve a minimum score of 213 or 80 or higher using the Internet version.
After taking placement examinations in Western music theory, aural skills, and performance (where applicable), applicants will be admitted to the program with conditional graduate standing. Normally, one semester will be allowed to remove deficiencies indicated by these placement examinations.
Students applying for admission should electronically submit the university application available at http://www.calstate.edu/apply along with the application fee.
All applicants must submit admissions materials separately to SDSU Graduate Admissions and to the School of Music and Dance.
Graduate Admissions
The following materials should be submitted as a complete package directly to:
Graduate Admissions
Enrollment Services
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182-7416
- Official transcripts (in sealed envelopes) from all postsecondary institutions attended;
NOTE:
- Students who attended SDSU need only submit transcripts for work completed since last attendance.
- Students with international coursework must submit both the official transcript and proof of degree. If documents are in a language other than English, they must be accompanied by a certified English translation.
- GRE scores (http://www.ets.org SDSU institution code 4682);
- English language or the computer-based English language score for foreign students, if instruction was in a language other than English (http://www.ets.org SDSU institution code 4682).
School of Music and Dance
The following admissions materials must be submitted electronically:
- Two letters of reference;
- One-page statement of personal aims and goals.
- M.A. applicants: Refer to special requirements for Admission to Master of Arts Degree in Music in the next section.
Consult the School of Music and Dance website at http://musicdance.sdsu.edu for further information concerning admission. If necessary, materials may be sent directly to:
Director of Graduate Studies
School of Music and Dance
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182-7902
Advancement to Candidacy
All students must satisfy the general requirements for advancement to candidacy, as described in Requirements for Master’s Degrees , and must have removed any deficiencies identified in the qualifying (placement) examinations by the end of the first semester.
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