<p>My daugher is very interested in RPI and will probably go there but I am very concerned about the elimination of Foreign Language and Theatre at RPI. </p>
<p>Does anyone have any experience with the cross enrollment?</p>
<p>Is RPI helping students to make it easier to cross enroll? </p>
<p>It seems to me that with the new construction of the EMPAC center, that RPI would be encouraging and figuring out a way of incorporating Liberal Arts in its Engineering curriculum. I strongly believe that the influence of Liberal Arts will help create more creative/innovative engineers.</p>
<p>There is a humanities and social sciences requirement for all undergrads, as well as some specific classes that engineers must choose from. No one here at RPI is particularly happy about the elimination of Foreign Language classes, since as far as I’m aware Japanese was a fairly popular minor. </p>
<p>However, Theater was never a department or even really anything more than a single class at RPI, one that wasn’t popular or even regularly held. The RPI Players, the theater group on campus, is an independent, student-run club that has many theater opportunities on campus, if that’s what your daughter is interested in. EMPAC is a separate building from the Playhouse, and they kind of do their own thing even by Institute standards, there’s not a ton of crossover yet between students and the professional artists in residence at EMPAC-- though I’m hearing reports that that’s going to gradually change.</p>