HOW TO GRADUATE EARLY FROM UCLA Degree Requirements (in terms of courses) University requirements o Entry-level writing (fulfilled

by scoring > 680 on the writing portion of the SAT) o American history and institutions (fulfilled by scoring > 500 on the SAT USH Subject Test, 4 on the APUSH exam) School requirements o Unit requirement: no less than 180 units, no more than 216 units, of which at least 64 must be upper division courses o Academic residence requirement: Of the last 45 units completed for a degree, 35 must be earned in residence in the School. o Writing requirements Writing I (potentially fulfilled by 4 or 5 on the AP English exam) Writing II o Quantitative reasoning requirement (fulfilled by scoring > 600 on the math portion of the SAT, AP stats, potentially from AP Calculus) o Foreign language requirement (fulfilled by scoring > 3 on an AP language exam) o Upper division nonmajor requirement: minimum of 12 units of upper division nonmajor courses o Diversity requirement? o General education requirements TOTAL: 8 courses, 38 units required Foundations of the Arts and Humanities (>15 units) Literary and cultural analysis Philosophical and linguistic analysis Visual and performing arts analysis and practice Foundations of Society and Culture (>15 units) (8 units fulfilled from APUSH exam) Historical analysis Social analysis Third course from either subgroup Foundations of Scientific Inquiry (>8 units) (4 units fulfilled from APES exam) Life sciences/physical sciences (two courses from either subgroup; if both courses are from the same subgroup, they must be from different departments) (A writing II course also approved for general education may be applied toward the relevant general education foundational area) Department requirements o Preparation for the major M10A-C (Introduction to Music: History, Culture, Creativity, 4-4-4)

20A-C (Music Theory I-III, 3-3-3) 12 units of 60A-65 (Undergraduate Instruction in Performance, 2 each) 12 units of C90A-90N or C90Q-90S (Ensembles, 2 each) 1 college year of French, Spanish, German, or Italian Composition major Minimum of 41 upper division units including: 104A (Modal Counterpoint, 3) or 104B (Special Topics in Counterpoint, 3) 106A (Orchestration I, 4), 106B (Orchestration II, 4) 116 (Introduction to Conducting, 2) 123A-C (Composition, 4-4-4) C176 (Electronic Music Composition, 4) At least 8 elective units selected from courses: 104A-B (if not already taken) 117 (Study and Conducting of Instrumental and Choral Literature, 2) C118A (Advanced Choral Conducting, 2), C118B (Choral Techniques and Methods, 2) Additional terms of 123A-C 124A (Scoring for Orchestra, 4), 124B (Scoring for Band, 4), 124C (Scoring for Choral Ensembles, 4) 197 (Individual Studies in Music, 2 or 4) Ethnomusicology courses o 117 (American Popular Music, 4) o 136A (Music of Africa, 5), C136B (Music of Africa, 4) o 146 (Folk Music of South Asia, 4) o C156A (Music in China, 4), 156B (Music in China, 4) o 157 (History of Chinese Opera, 4) o 158A-C (Studies in Chinese Instrumental Music, 4-4-4) o 160 (Survey of Music in Japan, 4) o 170 (Acoustics, 4) o 181 (Anthropology of Music, 4) A capstone senior recital preceded by a capstone scoring course

AP Courses I have taken AP Chinese 8 units, fulfills foreign language requirement AP Music Theory 8 units AP Environmental Science 4 units, towards Foundations of Scientific Inquiry AP Statistics 4 units, fulfills quantitative reasoning AP US History 8 units, fulfills American history, towards Foundations of Society and Culture AP English Literature and Composition 8 units, fulfills Entry Level Writing Requirement (possibly English Composition Writing 1 requirement) AP Psychology 4 units

AP Calculus AB 4 units fulfills quantitative reasoning requirement AP Human Geography 4 units

Potential Courses General education o Foundations for the Arts and Humanities (>15 units) Literary and cultural analysis 54 Modern art 4AW Literature and writing: Antiquity to middle ages (W) 4CW Literature and writing: Age of enlightenment to 20th century (W) 1C World Literature: Age of Enlightenment to 20th Century 90 Shakespeare 88J Special Topics in English: 20th-Century American Lit 88K Special Topics in English: History of English Language 5W Literature, culture, and critical inquiry 63 Bach Philosophical and linguistic analysis M40 Structure of English words 1 Beginnings of Western Philosophy 6W Language, Culture, and Discourse (W) Visual and performance arts analysis and practice 54 Modern art 57 Renaissance and Baroque Art and Ideology 63 Bach 31A, 31B, 31C Modernism M119 Cultural history of rap 30 Music and media 106A History of American Motion Picture 68 Beatles o Foundations of Society and Culture (>15 units) (8 UNITS FULFILLED BY APUSH) Historical analysis 10B History of Architecture and Urban Design: Baroque to Contemporary Moment 54 Modern Art 2D Religion, Occult, and Science: Science, Magic, and Religion 1600 to Present 22 Contemporary World History Social analysis 33 Culture and communication 30 Internet and Society

8 Media histories o Foundations of Scientific Inquiry (>8 units) (4 FULFILLED BY APES) Life sciences 16 Major events in history of life (4) 102W DNA: Promise and Peril (W) Physical sciences 3 Nature of Universe 4 Black holes and cosmic catastrophes 6 Cosmology: our changing concepts of universe Electives? o Introduction to Creative Writing o French?