Hi there! I’m a high school senior working on my UC application. I came across the World Arts and Culture major at UCLA. I’m in search of insight! Do you know anything or have you heard anything about this major? Is it difficult to be accepted into? Thank you so much!
I cannot give any insight to the major, put here is some information: http://cis.ucla.edu/studyarea/courseprint.asp?id=182
The major is in the School of Arts and Architecture which admits by declared major and puts more emphasis on special talents through a review of portfolios and/or auditions, which are the most significant admission factors for this school. The school of Arts and Architecture as a whole (not major specific) had a 9% admit rate for 2018 so definitely not an easy admit.
I’ve only come across the dance variant, which is UCLA’s alternative to the dance BFAs offered at other UCs. It is an audition based admit, and as such the academic qualification standards are likely to be slightly lower than in L&S (though that doesn’t in any way make getting in easy).
The dance itself it has quite a contemporary focus, as opposed to classical ballet etc. You can sit in on a class during a visit to campus if you get in touch with them, though the class she visited didn’t impress my D that much (she concluded that it wasn’t for her).
It isn’t necessarily a good choice for someone wanting to dance professionally compared to other SoCal schools like USC, Chapman or even UCI which have more intensely studio based BFA programs. The cultural studies alternative seems wide ranging but again much less focused on performance than a traditional BFA.
Preface everything I write here with I believe… It looks to have an artsy feel to anthropology, thus, World Arts. The Dance major, as Twoin18 surmised, has been melded into the World Arts and Cultures major, but this [url=<a href=“https://www.wacd.ucla.edu/%5D%5Bb%5Dlink%5B/b%5D%5B/url”>https://www.wacd.ucla.edu/]link[/url] shows a separate Dance BA.
Glorya Kaufman (sp), for whom UCLA’s dance building is named, wanted the University to be a premiere westcoast center for Dance. UCLA was acting too cautiously – too slowly – so she went across town and funded USC’s Dance program.