| Oberlin works it out pretty well. The Orchestra meets in that difficult midafternoon time slot on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The Chamber Orchestra and the Wind Ensemble meet during that same slot on Tuesdays and Thursdays, plus Monday evenings. It is pretty easy to move between the groups on a semester by semester basis. That leaves either two or three afternoons per week available for lab courses. Lower level science classes tend to have several lab sections on different days, upper level classes tend to have only a single lab section. With a bit of careful planning and some coordination between the musical and non-musical advisers, it is possible to work things out over the ten semesters it normally takes for the double degree.
The vocal ensembles meet a little later in the day (OC Choir starts at 4:30 Monday through Thursday, and OC Singers starts at 6:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays) or on weekends (Opera Chorus), so it is also possible to major in voice and a science as well. Since the campus is not all that large, it is possible to get from a lab to a rehearsal in less than ten minutes. |