auditting ballet worth $1360?

frazzled1
Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:41:21 +0000

I’m just blown away that universities give course credit for things like beginner ballet.

Some great schools where kids I know have received credit for beginner ballet: Vassar, Smith, Mount Holyoke. These schools have excellent dance departments overall, though they aren’t where a dancer looking for a professional career would probably enroll. And this year students can take an intro to dance and movement class for credit at Princeton. They can take intro to modern dance at Brown, and ballet I at Duke. There are other strong schools that offer introductory studio courses for credit, as well.

At my d’s school, W&M, kids can take a 2-credit introductory ballet or modern class in fulfillment of their arts general requirement. There’s written work and reading as well as the standard introductory dance curriculum, but they’re getting credit for an introductory dance class. I don’t see it as a waste of money or time (not sure if this is what starbright or alwaysamom meant, and sorry if I’m missing the point - I’ve been known to do that :)), and it isn’t an easy A if you can believe some of the comments on ratemyprofessor.