DANCE 45

Introduction to Dance Studies

Dance · 4 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)

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Introduction to discipline of dance studies, with focus on study of corporeality as key contemporary perspective on body. Multidisciplinary approach to dancing bodies conceptualized as social constructs, including attention to gender, race, class, and national identity.

P/NP or letter grading.

When it runs

Spring 2026
Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

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Enforced requisite: course 44.

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DANCE 44

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

DANCE 45

DANCE 44World Dance Histories

1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

DANCE 45

DANCE 101Theories of Dance

1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.