2024 - 2025 MCPS High School Course Bulletin

ART2006A/ART2006B Tap Dance 1A

0.5 credit per semester

This is an introductory course with emphasis on the development of rhythm and technique. Tap vocabulary is stressed as basic steps are mastered, Students demonstrate, through movement, the knowledge and application of the basic elements of tap, such as time, force, energy, dynamics, and space. Aesthetic, historical, performance, improvisation, and dance criticism elements are explored to understand the nature of tap dance. This course can be repeated for credit.

Dance as Find Art A/B and 6070 is a prerequisite to 6071
9 - 10 - 11 - 12
Unlimited repeats for subject credit

Additional Course Information:

  • Fine Arts Credit