| UC Berkeley has a general music major for undergraduates, that includes courses in ethnomusicology, music history, musicianship (harmony and aural skills), composition. There is also a program at UC Berkeley in electronic music.
UCLA offers both academic and performance music programs; they are reconfiguring the department, after a big donation from Herb Alpert, and will have a "global" focus. Until these changes, there have been separate departments for ethnomusicology and performance (in the College of Arts and Architecture) and for music history and music theory.
Both would be good choices for composition, if you like the particular faculty; if you are interested in performance, UCLA might be a better choice. |