Students graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from the Dance Department of Columbia College Chicago should be able to:

• Demonstrate proficiency as contemporary dancers with practical experience across culturally diverse dance forms.
• Create dances and scholarship that demonstrates exposure to collaborative and/or interdisciplinary processes.
• Recognize how dance practices circulate within systems of power and resistance.
• Analyze their own scholarship and creative works as well as the works of their peers and professionals.
• Create a portfolio that showcases their body of work and demonstrates transferable skills that can be applied to settings inside and outside of dance.
• Apply their knowledge of functional body mechanics to the design and presentation of concept-based dance curriculum for a variety of populations.
• Effectively communicate their ideas kinesthetically, verbally, and in writing.