Department of Fine and Performing Arts

Patricia Cohen holds Masters degrees from Teachers College, Columbia University and Stanford University. She is co-editor and a contributing writer for Dance Connections, Volume one, a dance education textbook which introduces dance to middle and high school students. Ms. Cohen is Project Director for the National Dance Education Organization's Expanding Horizons project, which advances communication among the K-12, Higher Education and privately owned dance school communities. She has taught dance at Brown University and Rhode Island College where she developed the jazz dance curriculum.