General Information

• Name: Beginning Tap Dancing
• Discipline: Dance (DAN)
• Units (Credits): 1
• Schedule History: See when this course was offered over the last three years.
• Transfer Information: Courses with numbers 100 to 299: This course is designed to apply toward a WNC degree and/or transfer to other schools within the Nevada System of Higher Education, depending on the degree chosen and other courses completed. It may transfer to colleges and universities outside Nevada. For information about how this course can transfer and apply to your program of study, please contact a counselor.
• Academic Division: Communications and Fine Arts
• Prerequisites: None

Course Outline

I: Catalog Course Description

Introduces beginning techniques of tap dance. May be repeated for up to four units.

II: Course Objectives

By the completion of the class, the students should, with 75% accuracy:

• Know objectives and techniques of warming up.
• Use basic terminology.
• Perform simple dance combinations with proper body positioning.
• Be able to choreograph short dance routines using the tap idiom.

III: Course Linkage

Linkage of course to educational program mission and at least one educational program outcome.

Students should:

1. Know the subject matter appropriate to the musical theater degree.
2. Succeed at transfer institutions
3. Understand the importance of cultural traditions, diversity, and ethics in the modern world.
4. Have an understanding of fine arts or performing arts.


Personal Development
• develop creative capacities

Community Commitment
• participate in a cultural or artistic event