Hi, I’m about to start community college in the fall at San Diego Mesa college and I am planning to transfer to West Texas A&M (my first choice school because it’s small, cheap out of state tuition, and cheap area in general, great dance program as well). Upon looking at WTAMU’s curriculum guide, it looks like for dance majors they expect about 16 units in the first semester.
At Mesa, I will be taking 18 units. Which is 8 classes. Everyone I’ve told has flipped the heck out when I tell them that, but it honestly seems to be pretty standard for a dance major. People just underestimate how hard we work as dancers haha.
So in order to match up the correct number of units both for core classes and for dance classes, I had to take 18 units because Mesa’s dance classes are worth less and our core classes are worth more than at WTAMU. In total, I will be taking 5 dance classes and 3 core classes. I was able to take English online, which helps a ton at minimizing my crazy schedule, but I sure wish I could’ve snagged the online math class in time haha. I work best online.
But yeah, just wondering, does this sound like a pretty standard load as a dance major? What is your schedule like as a dance major?
My schedule will be like this:
Monday’s: Communications 6-9pm
Tuesday’s: Tap 9:35-11:10, jazz 11:20-12:35, modern 12:45-2:20, then I get to go home and come back for math from 6-9pm
Wednesday’s: nothing
Thursday’s: same as Tuesday’s
Friday’s: nothing
Saturday’s: ballet 8-9:50, improv 10-11:50