Dance and Civic & Community Engagement: Service-Learning and Study Abroad as Vehicles to experiential learning, cultural humility, and global citizenship

Dance at Buffalo State University delivers a liberal arts education and embraces a civic and community engagement philosophy in all aspects of the program. In addition to rigorous studio training that enhances the physical experience of the art form, the curriculum is designed to deepen students' understanding of the cultural, historical, and social, as well as aesthetic, value of dance to our world. This community and civically engaged program fulfills dance students’ distinct aspirations while addressing local and global societal priorities. These experiences are supported by the Dr. Katherine S. Conway-Turner Office of Civic and Community Engagement (CCE) and the Maurene Callahan Bouras Center for Global Engagement (CGE) on campus, which facilitate a broad array of short-term and virtual community-engaged applied learning programs.