The PhD in Dance provides a rich environment for graduate research in dance through a diverse array of courses, a public seminar series, a biennial symposium and a rigorous advising process with experienced faculty.  The PhD program educates leaders in dance/arts organizations, teachers in higher education and community settings, critical thinkers, productive scholars for the future and self-reflective artists. Doctoral students acquire skills to envision new paradigms for the arts and education, to create new knowledge through research, and to forge new integrations between disciplines. The doctoral faculty has research specialisms in historiography, philosophy, phenomenology, cultural studies, aesthetics and criticism and critical theory. In addition to a broad range of electives and required courses in Research Methods in Dance and Educational Inquiry in Dance, students can pursue courses in areas of dance faculty expertise: Dancing the Popular; Moving Across Genres; Bodies, Texts, History and Experience, Engagement and Multi-Sensory Inquiry.