Overview
Key Features
The Department of Theatre Arts and Dance offers students a home where they can seek their potential and develop their voices as artists, through the study and collaborative creation of live performance. We believe in a world where the artist is transformative, essential and engaged.
Our programs develop graduates who bring optimistic leadership and vision to the performing arts. They stand on these core principles:
- Student centered - We believe first and foremost in creating experiences that serve our students’ needs and passions.
- Rigorous - We believe that performance training can inspire us to the highest standards of professionalism and personal achievement.
- Engaging - We believe in making work that has value beyond the dance and theatre world and directly engages our campus and local community.
The Dance program at Sonoma State University offer students the tools for an active and sustainable life in dance, including focused work that prepares students for the rigors of teaching dance.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Making Theatre
- Technical Theatre Workshop
- Dance Fundamentals
- Dance Styles
- Acting Styles: Comedy - lmprovisation
- Acting Fundamentals
- Acting Fundamentals
- Stagecraft
- Costumes
- Scenery
- Lighting
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 48 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
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- Starting
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- Apply before , National
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Language
Credits
Delivered
Disciplines
Visual Arts Theatre & Dance View 2848 other Bachelors in Visual Arts in United StatesAcademic requirements
English requirements
Student insurance
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Complete a high/secondary school curriculum which totals 12 years of primary-secondary education, and earn a graduation diploma or certificate
- Complete high school curriculum with above satisfactory grades or marks which equals a 2.0 grade point average (GPA) on the 4.0 grading scale
- Submit official high school transcript (academic record), showing all courses with grades or marks, and graduation diploma or certificate. Official transcript must be in the original language of issue. Submit certified English translations for non-English documents
- Submit official verification of English proficiency except where English is the applicant's native language and has attended for at least three years’ full time at an institution where English was the principal language of instruction
Tuition Fee
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International
9504 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 9504 USD per year during 48 months. -
National
9504 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 9504 USD per year during 48 months. -
In-State
7952 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 7952 USD per year during 48 months.
Living costs for Rohnert Park
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Funding
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Scholarships Information
Below you will find Bachelor's scholarship opportunities for Dance.
Available Scholarships
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