<p>D has been admitted into DAAP Arch program. She'll come in with 7 AP courses (likely to be all 5's) and Calc III & IV from UMich - all of which equates to about 60-70 quarter hrs at UC.</p>
<p>For the following discussion, I'd use the terms double major and dual degree synonymously, i.e. I don't want the discussion to digress into the finer differences between double major and dual degree.</p>
<p>D really wants to take advantage of the credits she already earned, by doing a double major (e.g. Civil Engg) along with BS Arch. With all the course structure and load at DAAP Arch, is it feasible to still graduate in 5 years (with coop's etc.)?</p>
<p>Speaking of coop, how would the coop requirement work for double majors?</p>
<p>double majoring is incredibly hard with daap- and probably near impossible with an engineering degree.</p>
<p>If you look at any curriculum from a daap major, you’ll notice that each quarter you take 15-18 hours of classes. The most you can sign up for is 18 credit hours each quarter. You can pay extra per credit, but 18 is already a pretty hefty workload (however, one extra UC academic class would probably not kill you… as my friend said, it isn’t Harvard Law…). Engineering curiculums are similar to daap ones in terms of the fact that they too require near 18 credit hours each quarter. And they are RIDICULOUSLY tough in terms of homework and tests - this is true of engineering programs anywhere. to combine that with daap, and daap architecture, would be… I can’t even fathom it. Last aquarter, I know so many architects who were in the studio tillat lest 3 every night working on stuff. To then leave and go work on enigneering afterwords? there simply wouldn’t be time for sleep.</p>
<p>however- UC has minors. Not in any engineering degrees, but they do have minors. They have liberal arts minors (psychology, sociology, english, physics, math, etc.) and business minors (marketing, management, entrepreneurship, etc. (these are all new for this year and not really online anywhere yet. at least from what I could tell)). I will be trying for a marketing minor, which seems doable, especially since I got a lot of gen-ed classes out of the way with AP classes (as seems to be the case with your daughter). The minors require no BoK (breadth of knowledge classes… the general eds required by UC; however they seem to vary a quite a bit from college to college (e.g. arts and sciences to business to engineering to daap)) Classes, meaning you get to jump right into what you want to study.</p>
<p>Finally, if you have a TON of AP credits, it might be possible to double major in an Arts and Sciences major- anywhere from physics and chemistry to english and psychology or a foreign language (I actually know and industrial design student double majoring in German). A&S majors are split sort of 50/50 in terms of BoK and actual major stuff (e.g. if you are majoring in psychology, then actual psych classes). If you have enough AP Tests- they will probably cover the BoK requirements. I know I covered them all except the foreign language one, which makes a double major for me impossible (they require 18 credit hours of a foreign language for an A&S major! and since they are sequential you can’t really take two in one quarter… ). Depending on if you have enough credit hours, this may be a possibility. </p>
<p>In terms of co-oping, I don’t think you would graduate in 5 years if you did a civili engineering degree alongside a daap one- unless you maybe didn’t co-op? I don’t know if you’re allowed to or why you would do that (I’m pretty sure engineering majors also go on required co-ops). In terms of co-oping with a minor or an A&S major, i don’t think going on co-op matters- just make sure to take the classes required (and be sure to meet with an advisor so they know you’re intent!) when you’re in school.</p>
<p>karkri, see my response to you re: double majoring in the Architecture major forum. I don’t know how co-op would work with a double major, but the Architecture Program office should be able to tell you.</p>