Good double major with Playwriting?

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I was just recently admitted to a couple of schools as a playwriting major. One school in particular, Marymount Manhattan College, makes it very very easy for the student studying in Theater Arts to double major. I want to take this as an opportunity to major in something else that I could have a career in and just generally get the most of out of my college education. Right now I am thinking of a Speech Language Pathology & Audiology double major with Theater Arts (with a concentration in Playwriting) because my sister goes to college for SPLA and absolutely loves it!

However, I wanted to know if there would be any other good majors to check out. Preferably majors where there would be a good job market.

Thank you!

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Well, one of the best majors for the job market is computer science, but it does not match with theater arts very well.

Of course, even though your sister likes it does not mean you will. Take her experience with a grain of salt. Anyways, good double majors for theater would be English/English literature, psychology, journalism, and philosophy.

It’s your choice. Your second major does not have to relate to theatre. Do anything you want. These are just suggestions.

However, theatre majors usually get a BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts), which would make a double major hard or even impossible. See if there is the option of doing a BA in theatre at your preferred college.

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Nursing, accounting, information technology, education (to teach elementary/high school). Also, though not offered many places: clinical lab scientist, environmental health specialist.

One needs to get a master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology to be a Speech-Language Pathologist / Speech Therapist (http://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/speech-language-pathologists.htm#tab-4, http://study.com/articles/How_to_Become_a_Speech_Therapist_Education_and_Career_Information.html). Getting a bachelor’s in it doesn’t accomplish much.

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Marymount Manhattan offers a lot of interesting majors: several business concentrations, digital journalism, digital video and media production, finance, management, marketing, public relations and strategic communications. The PR degree might align pretty well with your theater arts major, as PR specialists do a lot of writing for their clients, especially speechwriting. It could also match up well with the marketing major for the same reason.

And yeah, @jjwinkle makes a good point - the speech-language pathology and audiology major is really meant as preparation for the master’s in speech-language pathology. You need to get a master’s in order to practice as an SLP.