Dance Degree Progam

Dance Program Purpose

TJC’s Dance Program has a strong reputation for excellence in dance education, choreography, and performance, propelling students into several prestigious university dance programs and preparing them for a career in the dance field. The dance curriculum includes multiple levels of ballet, modern dance, jazz, tap, dance appreciation, improvisation, choreography, and performance classes.

The Dance Program provides a solid foundation of classes that focus on movement fundamentals, technique, multiple performance opportunities, and choreography. The curriculum provides a comprehensive approach to learning dance by integrating the aesthetics, historical, critical, cultural, and fundamental aspects of dance as an art form.

Department/Contact Information: 

• Office of Advising : 903-510-2425
• Jennifer Bailey, Instructor, Dance/Director Academy of Dance
  - jbai@tjc.edu  | 903-510-2027 or toll free 800-687-5680

* Indicates courses required for graduation from Tyler Junior College with an Associate in Arts degree.  A total of 60 hours must be completed to earn an AA degree.  In addition, students must complete the General Graduation Requirements for all Degrees listed in the TJC Catalog.

Visual/Performing Arts:
ARTS 1301; DRAM 1310; MUSI 1306; ARTS 1303, 1304; DANC 2303; DRAM 2361, 2362; MUSI 1308, 1309

Humanities:
COMM 1307; ENGL 2322, 2323, 2327, 2328, 2332, 2333, 2352, 2353; HIST 2311, 2312; HUMA 1301, 1302; PHIL 1301, 2306; FREN 2311, 2312; SPAN 2311, 2312, 2317; SGNL 2301, 2302

Social/Behavioral Science:
ECON 2301, 2302; GEOG 1303; PSYC 2301, 2314, 2319; SOCI 1301, 2301, 2331

Laboratory Sciences:
Must be lab-based and includes chemistry, biology, geology, physics, and astronomy.

Institutional Option:
AGRI 1309; BCIS 1301; BCIS 1405; ENGR 2304; FREN 2311; SGNL 2301; SPAN 2311

**This is a suggested degree plan and students are strongly encouraged to seek advisement for course planning from their academic advisor or faculty advisor.  Since senior college requirements differ, Tyler Junior College recommends that all students who plan to transfer check with their senior college regarding transferability of particular classes into degree requirements.  The final responsibility for the selection, scheduling, and satisfactory completion of degree or certificate requirements rests with the student.**

Advising Notes:

• A science background is pertinent to the successful completion of Anatomy & Physiology.  Students should complete one of the following prior to registering for A&P:  BIOL 2404 or BIOL 1409 or CHEM 1406 with a minimum grade of “C.”

• In selecting specific core curriculum classes, refer to the core curriculum section of the TJC Catalog for course options.  The selection of courses in the core as well as elective credit courses is often based on the requirements of the specific transfer college or university.

• To receive a degree from TJC, a student must complete 60 (unless a specific curriculum indicates otherwise) acceptable credit hours with an average grade of at least “C” (2.0) DGPA.  For degree completion, at least 25 percent of the credit semester hours must be earned through instruction completed at Tyler Junior College.

CAUTIONARY NOTE:

This is a suggested degree plan and students are strongly encouraged to seek advisement for course planning from their academic or faculty advisor.  Since senior college requirements differ, Tyler Junior College recommends that all students who plan to transfer check with their senior college regarding transferability of particular classes into degree requirements.  The final responsibility for the selection, scheduling, and satisfactory completion of degree or certificate requirements rests with the student.