Hello All,
I have a child that is a musician, plays double bass, got selected to an elite youth orchestra in the area(San Francisco Symphony youth orchestra). interested in pursuing a combination( double major or major,minor) of music(performance) and either computer science or applied math as another major. I have heard that there are some colleges that started offering concentrations that combine music and math or music and computer science in the college of arts and sciences. It is more like music combine with data sciences. Any idea which colleges offer such concentrations and any information on schools that offer pre-college classes in the area I have mentioned so that the student has an introduction to that type of field.
Thank you in advance.
Check out UIUC’s CS + X program.
https://cs.illinois.edu/academics/undergraduate/degree-program-options/cs-x-degree-programs
It sounds like something one should be able to create with the help of a faculty advisor at Wesleyan:
https://www.wesleyan.edu/music/ensembles/experimental.html
Thank you!
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has a very different program structure and does offer Data Science major. To better understand the program start with https://www.wpi.edu/project-based-learning/wpi-plan
WPI has offered an MS in Data Science for some time and is launching a BS program in DS this Fall. See https://www.wpi.edu/news/worcester-polytechnic-institute-responds-demand-talent-data-science-workforce. Read about Prof. Elke Rudensteiner, Program Director, @ https://www.wpi.edu/people/faculty/rundenst
They offer a performance music minor. See https://www.wpi.edu/academics/study/music-minor
The average entering student for the University has a 3.9 GPA on an unweighted 4 point scale, It is a STEM University with four seven week terms and is built around undergraduate project research.
If you look close to home, the Music major is part of Letters and Sciences at Berkeley, so it would be pretty easy to combine a Music major with CS or DS. In fact I would say a large majority of Music majors are double majors in something else at Cal. Note that even if you specify a major when applying thru L&S, you go in as undeclared, so you have many options along the way.
This small university’s undergraduate enrollment includes 167 CA students. The Data Science program director has her PhD from UC, Irvine and has over 400 reviewed/published papers.
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Thank you. I will look into WPI
Professorplum168, Thank you for the Cal info. So when applying to Cal, how to input that on the application? double major 1)music performance and 2) leave the second field undeclared.
Retiredfarmer, thank you for the update about the small university program, is this from Weslyan?
NVm retiredfarmer, you meant WPI.
Now that I have so much expertise on this thread, I would like to ask one more question. My student finished a music theory class from the local community college this summer. Would like to take the AP music theory exam, but since our high school neither offers the class nor administers the test, we have to look at other schools that offer. But the problem is that I have contacted pretty much all the public/private schools within a 25-mile radius of our zip code and no one wants to permit an outside student to take the AP test at their campus. How important is it for the college application to take the AP music theory. Is the community college class considered equivalent to the AP test?
For UC-Berkeley, it doesn’t really matter (theoretically) what major you put in for Letters and Sciences since you go in as undeclared. For the application, I think there is only one major you can choose from (can’t remember) - you would just put in one major, say Music. Once you are accepted, you then can begin the process of planning with the double major. For Music, you can only declare after taking 3 required classes with a 2.0+ GPA from these 3 classes, plus place into a suitable performance class. At the same time, you can start taking CS or DS classes as well. For example, for the CS track, there are numerous Lower Division classes that need to be taken i.e. Calculus (Math 1A and 1B), CS classes (CS 61A, CS 61B, etc) and other classes. To declare for CS (L&S version) for example, you need to have a 3.30 GPA in your first 3 requisite CS classes. For Data Science, to declare you need to have a 2.0 in the requisite classes CS C8 (Data 8), Linear Algebra, and CS 61A, plus have completed Calculus plus CS 61B, before you can declare.
Northeastern has a few options with computer science, engineering and technology.
https://www.northeastern.edu/search/?query=music+computer+science
https://www.northeastern.edu/search/?query=music+engineering
Yes, I meant WPI. Retired farmer is cutting wood for the Maine Winter… sorry regarding delay!