D got admission to UCLA’s School of Music, but she is on the fence about majoring in Music only due to the uncertainty of career. She would like to explore the possibility of double majoring in something like the Environmental Science major or Geography/environmental science major. Could anyone provide any insight into: (1)for a double major between the College and Music, how many credits can be shared? e.g. are all the GE credits can be shared? (2) The workload for these majors listed above? UCLA is a competitive school - I wonder how rigorous all these majors are and what the expectation is in those courses. Thanks.
Here’s the breakdown of GE requirements by college, which shows the close match between music and L&S (just 2 more courses in L&S):
The key thing to look at for double majors is the length of each. Double majoring in say politics and economics is easy, because both are short (12-14 courses). Geography is also short, but I think music is much longer (20 courses for the BA, I assume more for the BM?).
You do 3 or 4 courses a quarter, so with 10 GEs, you have about 30-38 left for major courses. You might just about fit 1 long and 1 short major into four years if you do 4 classes almost every quarter.
But BFAs/BMs are tough to do a double major/double degree. My D did a BFA in ballet and a BS in environmental studies (not at UCLA), and had to complete over 150 semester credits (ie 5 years of classes) in her 4 years with 20-22 credits almost every term.
Thanks. I have looked at that general information very closely and also have reviewed the actual smaple 4-year study plan for BM. The College’s GE requirement is 2 courses higher than the School of Music’s. And the general breakdown for the graduating requirement for music and these L&S courses are 180 units min. I also know that 20 upper-level courses can be common - which won’t be possible between a music and any outside major. Hence the main question is whether GE credits can be double-counted.
You only have to do the 10 GEs for L&S as these will subsume the 8 GEs for Music. You don’t have to do 18 GEs. It is the total number of major courses and lack of overlap there that is the challenge, especially when you take into account how course registration works (you only get two courses in first pass so if you want to do four per quarter, two of them will be in second pass when popular courses are likely to have filled up).
Any data out there showing percentage of UCLA students graduating with single major, double major, major/minor etc?