<p>If one goes to a music school thats on the main colleges campus, is it possible to major in ed/performance, while also minoring in another discipline? </p>
<p>BTW, I mean most likely will I be able to in terms of time.</p>
<p>From personal experience I touched on in your other thread (music ed minor) I'll expand:</p>
<p>Both performance and music ed BMs are credit intensive programs in and of themselves. Combined in school specific dual degree offerings (Oberlin, Hartt, as examples), are five year programs to begin with. A diversion, course conflict, academic blip might add another semester or a year. Music ed courses are highly structure and sequenced, and can present scheduling issues to stay on track. Student teaching semester usually limits additional coursework to only enough credits to maintain fulltime status. Few institutions offer music performance or ed courses in the summer, and many music credits (particularly theory or music ed courses) MAY not be transferable to your school, so there's not much of a fallback option. Add in actual practice time.</p>
<p>Look into credit load requirements for a dual degree in performance/ed. They are high. Little if any room for electives; non music academic requirements are normally degree requirements, and state mandated for licensure.</p>
<p>Lots of 1 and 2 credit courses with actual classroom time far in excess of the norm for a low credit class. Orchestra, ensemble requirements are like science labs, taking a large chunk of time on a specific day, and unlike a science lab, there's usually only one time slot. </p>
<p>Son's program at Hartt was outlined at between 17-19 credits per semester for four years, the fifth year a bit lighter, and the course outline RECOMMENDED some courses be done in summer or winterterms. Fulltime credit load was 12 minimum. Avoid schools with overload charges if you exceed a certain number of credits per semester. While they can be waived if you need to exceed because of schedule conflicts or degree requirements, they can be costly.</p>
<p>Anything is possible for the driven individual. Many of his fellow perf/ed classmates dropped one or the other, some to determining their passion, others to time or money. He did graduate with a few who did it, but the intake versus degree completion was less than we expected. He also had classmates that had performance/science or performance/liberal arts double degrees. Few completed within the "normal" time frame.</p>
<p>Read the school's policy on double degrees/dual majors. Some schools encourage, some pay lip service, some won't allow it. Also, some private instrumental instructors frown on combined disciplines, seeing it as diversionary.</p>
<p>The good news is most merit/talent based grants and scholarships offered are for the five year duration in programs designed as such. The absence of merit money and relying only on federal aid can be detrimental or prohibitive in a private school five year program.</p>
<p>You can look at BA rather than BM degrees for both disciplines as the BA tends to have more liberal arts (than performance or ed requirements), but there are not a lot of BA programs out there by comparison. For reference, a BS in music ed for all intents and purposes is effectively identical to a BM, but may have more of an educational theory specific component.</p>