<p>So I was looking through a Columbia book and it said that one of the undergraduate schools was the School of the Arts. Is this a separate school that has to be applied to separately for undergrads? Or is it just a subgroup within the whole of Columbia College? </p>
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<p>you read wrong, there is no undergraduate school of the arts. </p>
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<p>arts majors: students in columbia college may have 3 majors that are housed in columbia’s school of the arts (creative writing, visual arts and film studies), they can also pursue theatre, dance and architecture housed at Barnard College (with some affiliation with theatre in soa and architecture working closely with Columbia’s GSAPP), and lastly Music, that is in the Music Department.</p>
<p>students in gs can also take courses in all these components. students in seas can take courses, though not major. and i believe the only minors they can do right now are in arch and in music.</p>
<p>soa for grad school is considered one of the premier arts schools in the country - for film and creative writing it is top 5. and that education trickles down into the ugrad majors. although as a gurad you wont apply to a tisch or the equivalent but rather to a broad liberal arts program that gives you a BA, you will get a solid education in the major and prepare you for future study in an MFA program.</p>