Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Arts Management
Credit/No-credit
The Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Arts Management provides professional, career-oriented programs for students interested in working in the American entertainment and performing arts industries as dancers, managers, dance teachers, or as creative talent with strong business and liberal arts knowledge and skills. The school, which consists of the dance and arts management departments, seeks to produce graduates who are prepared to work in the commercial entertainment or nonprofit performing arts industries.
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Academic Policies Admission Requirements
Applicants to the dance performance, dance management, and American dance teacher majors must audition for admission and be accepted. Applicants for admission to the entertainment business major must submit a goals-related essay and résumé and must be interviewed and accepted by the arts management faculty. Applicants must have ACT scores of 19 or higher or SAT scores of 920 (math plus verbal from a single sitting) or higher to be eligible to audition for admission to the Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Arts Management as entering freshman dance performance majors. Applicants must have ACT scores of 21 or higher or SAT scores (math plus verbal in a single sitting) of 1000 or higher to be eligible to audition for admission to the school as entering freshman dance management or American dance teacher majors or to be interviewed by arts management faculty for admission as entertainment business majors. To be eligible to audition for admission as a dance performance, dance management, or American dance teacher major or to be interviewed by the arts management faculty for admission as an entertainment business major, transfer students with less than 27 completed semester credit hours of academic courses must have qualifying ACT or SAT scores as described above for entering freshmen and a cumulative college GPA of 2.75. Transfer students for all degree programs with over 26 completed semester credit hours of academic courses must have a cumulative college GPA of 3.00. The undergraduate degrees in the Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Arts Management are intended to be “first degrees.” Applicants with undergraduate degrees will not be accepted into the school’s undergraduate degree programs. Generally, transfer students expected to have completed more than 60 credit hours by the time they plan to attend Oklahoma City University will not be accepted into the dance performance, dance management, or American dance pedagogy degree programs.
Dance Transfer Credits
Transfer credit for modern dance courses may not be applied toward the requirements of the dance performance, dance management, or American dance pedagogy degrees.
undergraduate catalog
Students within the school may not take courses for credit/ nocredit to meet degree requirements. Students are expected to attend classes diligently and regularly in the same way that employees in the entertainment industry are expected to show up for work. Course grades will be lowered one full grade (i.e., A- to B-) for each absence beyond that allowed for the course under the appropriate dance or arts management Standards and Procedures. Three late arrivals or early departures from class will be considered equal to one absence.
Arts Management Course Projects and Papers
Course projects and papers must be turned in before or by the established due time and date deadline. Projects and papers will not be accepted after deadlines. Late projects and papers will receive a grade of zero.
School Academic Probation
Students within the school with a semester GPA below 2.00 or with two or more F’s in any subject during a semester, will be placed on Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Arts Management academic probation. In order to remain in a major within the school, students on school academic probation must achieve, during the following semester, a semester GPA of 2.75 or higher in an enrollment of at least 15 credit hours approved by the dean, with no grades of D or F. Students who have been placed on school academic probation who do not meet the above requirements may apply for consideration for readmittance after completing an additional 30 credit hours in academic courses (not applied arts or nonacademic courses) with a GPA of 2.75 and no D’s or F’s for any semester in which the students were enrolled after leaving the school.
Minimum Grade Requirements for Dance Management, American Dance Teacher, and Entertainment Business Majors
For an arts management course (AMGT) or business course to count toward the B.S. in dance management degree, B.S. in American dance pedagogy or B.S. in entertainment business degree, a student must earn a grade of C (2.000) or higher.
Full-Time Enrollment Required
In order to remain in the Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Arts Management, students must maintain full-time enrollment (a minimum of 12 credit hours) each semester. Last-semester seniors with less than 12 credit hours of remaining degree requirements may enroll in less than 12 credit hours as long as they enroll in all of their remaining degree requirements offered by the university.
Concurrent Enrollments
Students may not enroll in courses at other colleges or universities during the fall or spring semesters while attending Oklahoma City University.
Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Arts Management
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