<p>i recently realized that my dream major would be neurobiology doubled with art,dance or music....</p>
<p>are there any SMALL lac that i would be able to tudy these, plus study in other depertment ( etc... take history even as a junior or senior)</p>
<p>the ability to take courses interdeprtmentally , with very small classes , teachers-not ta's...., plus ideally a hillel/jewish students association-</p>
<p>they are basically my only goals...but am i looking for an impossible school?if not, which school am i looking for????</p>
<p>i havent taken the sats yet, but my psat score was over 200, and im in all honors- if that matters</p>
<p>well the field of neurobiology would be something you're only going to really go into in grad school, I think...but the whole small class/lac/med/interdeprtmental thing reminds me of Brown.</p>
<p>You need to investigate open-curriculum schools like Brown, Amherst, and Vassar, or schools with very low key distribution requirements, like Wesleyan. You will have the freedom to do a double major more easily without a bunch of required courses. There are plenty of places that offer this kind of freedom and also have the other things you seek.</p>
<p>absolutely check out connecticut college:
Tops for dance and neuroscience/psychology, and they encourage you to feel free to design your own major, incorporating your interests.
Small, extremely friendly student body, gorgeous campus, you will ONLY be taught by professors- not TAs, and active hillel.</p>
<p>How small do you want it to be? If 2900 is tolerable, you might consider Oberlin. They have a great neurobiology department, one of the best music programs in the country (with performance opportunities for both majors and non-majors), and an incredible art museum. More than a quarter of the students in the conservatory are in the double degree program. There are a lot of interdisciplinary programs and almost none of the classes are taught by TA's for the simple reason that there are only a handful of grad students on campus. Their Hillel is very active and has gotten a lot of awards from the national Hillel association. They even have a Kosher food co-op and program housing that includes a Hebrew Heritage House if those are of interest.</p>
<p>You may want to look at Lawrence University. The President, Jill Beck, formerly of UC-Irvine, supports collaborations in the Arts and Sciences. You speak of wanting to work interdepartmentally. This is discussed in the following short excerpt of a speech.
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Another reason for believing in the collaboration of art and science stems from recent advances in neuroscience. Consider for a moment the strides being made in our understanding of music alone: the discovery that a region of the auditory cortex in the right hemisphere is more associated with pitch discriminations than a comparable region in the left hemisphere; the existence of the Mozart effect on proportional reasoning and the effect of keyboarding on mathematics performance; the arousal of the immune system through choral singing; the heightened abilities of undergraduate musicians in second language pronunciation; or interest in the physics of music — the last three of which are research programs and courses currently being conducted at Lawrence.
<p>thanks sooo much-- definetly things i will look into... i was thinking about it, adni guess any school where u are given the option to design ur own major is going to be really meaningful...</p>
<p>I don't know if Grinnell has neuroscience, but I do know that if you double major, they like it to be in completely different areas (not within the same division). They also have few distribution requirements.
I think this would be possible at most LACs that offer neuroscience, and more are offering it each year. </p>
<p>Sometimes a double major isn't the best course for someone with lots of interests, though. For example, if you major in neuroscience and art, by the time you also fulfill distribution requirements, the number elective slots available to explore dance, music, history and all the other new interests you develop may be limiting. Think about 1 major and 1 minor--at most LACs you won't have to decide which area will be your major until after sophomore year.</p>
<p>You'll have to research whether these places have the kind of art, dance, music you want, in sufficient amounts. Like Studio art vs. more art history; conservatory music vs. not, modern dance vs. ballet, etc. For example, my daughter#2 is an avid dancer and most of the places mentioned above don't make her list. But they might be fine for a person with somewhat different objectives relating to dance.</p>
<p>I'd suggest checking Vassar, Skidmore, Connecticut college, Barnard, Smith, Bard, Bennington, Sarah Lawrence, maybe Pomona or one of the other Claremont colleges.</p>
<p>Neurobiology seems very specific, but between biology and pyschology probably lots of places cover.</p>
<p>Also lots of places let you double major I think. Others of my aquaintance offer the possibility of designing an independent. cross-disciplinary major. As for quadruple-majoring, or whatever, you probably won't have time anyway; frankly I wouldn't design a college list based just on this point IMO. Within a year your interests may change somewhat anyway.</p>
<p>Just got back from a visit at Bennington and a dance teacher did a piece based on research at the La Jolla Institite of Neurosciences and she performed it there (cal) too. There is you perfect combo.</p>