The beauty of Rochester, beyond the great performing arts and academic strength generally, is that their structure for general education requirements is just to divide everything into three broad categories - STEM, Humanities, and Social Sciences - and require only that each student take a minimum of a three-course “cluster” from each division. For a student like your son, this would mean that he could basically study what he wanted and meet the requirements without even trying. His music major (with nine different choices of emphasis!) would cover humanities. A cluster or minor in psychology would cover social sciences. And a cluster or minor in Brain & Cognitive Sciences (which includes Neurobiology), Music Cognition, or Logic would cover STEM. He can search course clusters here to get an idea of what’s available.
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