These two distinct disciplines share one department with a combined 324 undergraduate majors. Because Theatre and Dance are live arts/practices that take place in specific times and spaces and present their visions in embodied, non-cognitive form, writing within both disciplines involves complex acts of translation. Theatre usually begins its artistic explorations in textual sources, while Dance is a predominantly non-textual art/practice. At the University of Minnesota, furthermore, the disciplines have entirely distinct curricula, few shared faculty, and many adjunct instructors. For this reason, the department has elected that the two programs pursue the WEC process on parallel tracks.