<p>So I'm currently a senior in highschool and I was going over the A-G requirements to attend CSU'S and UC's and found a little problem. (I will be setting up an appointment with my counselor soon to try and handle this mess, but for now I am posting here.)</p>
<p>As a graduation requirement at my school, I received visual and performing arts credits by taking Spanish. I know that colleges don't accept that so here is my question:</p>
<p>In sophomore year I took one semester of Theater and Stagecraft, which counts for the visual and performing art. If I take another semester of theater and stagecraft this year, will both of those semesters merge and create one entire year of visual and performing arts? I'm worried that it won't because I've been hearing some people say it needs to be in the first and second semester in the same year.</p>
<p>Spanish as a visual & performing arts class? If you actually attend school in California, your guidance counselor should be taken out and shot!</p>
<p>For students attending high school in California, the requirements are very specific. The visual and performing arts class needs to be a year-long class, but also needs to be approved, in advance, by the UC’s. (So, if my kid did a semester of theatre and a semester of art, it would NOT pass muster!) So, if you attend school in California, and your school offers UC-approved arts classes, I’d think you’d need to take one this coming year. Successful completion would probably be a condition of enrollment . . . but I’m only guessing.</p>
<p>And if you don’t attend school in California, or your California school doesn’t have any UC-approved arts classes, then I don’t know. Obviously, plenty of kids get admitted to UC’s from out-of-state, so there must be some way around the “pre-approved arts class” requirement, ‘cause a school in West Virginia (for example) certainly isn’t going to be providing a UC-approved curriculum!</p>
<p>If I were you, I’d be setting up an appointment to meet with your guidance counselor tomorrow . . . I wouldn’t wait. And, in the meantime, get on the internet, look up the UC admission requirements, and then follow whatever links they have about the one-year arts requirement and/or out-of-state students (if that applies). It may take some work, but I’m sure you’ll be able to find something.</p>
<p>UC has “admission by exam” and “admission by exception” for those who do not fulfill a-g requirements, although these may be more for home schooled applicants and those from high schools without a complete a-g curriculum.</p>
<p>According to [University</a> of California - Subject requirement](<a href=“University of California Counselors”>University of California Counselors) , you can also use a 3 semester unit or 4 quarter unit college course, or 3+ on AP art history, studio art, or music theory, or 5+ on IB HL dance, film, music, theater arts, or visual arts.</p>
<p>An exception to needing a year-long class is taking it in consecutive semesters that they are offered. For instance my son took a fall semester film class. Film II was not offered until the following fall, and the UC requirements are met. So it doesn’t need to be a yearlong class. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, this does not help the OP because the semesters aren’t consecutive. I agree that your GC has let you down in a big way and I am sorry to hear it, but at least you caught it at the beginning rather the end of senior year. Do you have room in your schedule this year to take a yearlong course? Drawing/ceramics/chorus… anything?</p>