<p>This is a really interesting and informative thread. I have two comments, one totally irrelevant and one relevant. </p>
<p>Totally irrelevant: SDonCC, all this time I assumed you were a man named Don. Se</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure Yale let’s you double major, actually.
I know someone there - a Yale rising senior now - who’s double majoring in Political Science and International Relations.</p>
<p>Emmybet, your daughter interested in learning about all aspects of theater, then? I only feel geared toward acting, and possibly directing. and thanks, I hope to narrow my list down in the coming weeks! and thank for bringing up electives, I never thought of how that varies by school.</p>
<p>glassharmonica-- I confess to also thinking that SDonCC was a man named Don! right until she talked about her daughter in a recent post. we have the same interest in Temple 
I love everything about what I’ve read so far, but there’s one major drawback: I can’t find any student theater groups or any indication that student produced shows even happen. the only student theater group listed under the arts was the Temple Musical Theater Collaborative, and I was hoping for more than that-- and more that weren’t so specialized for MT. =/ I’m going to shoot the department an e-mail, though, just in case I missed something.</p>
<p>the opportunity to perform in student shows is important to me! not only would it be nice to have a chance to perform outside of the handful of mainstage production, but I’d also more chances to perform if I decide to choose a different career.</p>
<p>DasSuiGeneris, are you mentioning this because someone said otherwise earlier?</p>
<p>yes, I’'m a mom! Not Don.</p>
<p>butterflies if you like what you’ve researched concerning Temple I suggest you call the Theatre Dept. office (or whatever they call it) and ask that specific question - how many student run shows are there each year. They might have weird rules of what goes on their website but there may be many “underground” student run productions that didn’t make it to the website, who knows. Only one organization strikes me as a bit odd, so call and ask!</p>
<p>Hi Butterflies,</p>
<p>We have not gotten as far as calling the Theater Department (because my daughter is away for 6 weeks and calling is her job) but I did run into a woman who had transferred to Temple from Bard years ago due to a family situation. She was an acting major at Temple and had a great experience there, with a lot of freedom to perform and produce. She is a bit older, so things may have changed but she also mentioned a recent graduate who is now fully employed as an actor at one of the mainstage theaters in Philadelphia. Her point was that if you are gifted and hard-working you can shine at Temple… but of course, there is no substitute for calling and visiting (which will be easy for my daughter to do because we live nearby.)</p>
<p>sounds promising glass harmonica. I put together my own little profile of temple on microsoft word a few nights ago, and my only concern listed was student production opportunities. I’ll be calling the theater department sometime this week. :)</p>
<p>Looking forward to your report, Butterflies. You’re doing great research.</p>
<p>when I tried the number, it kept asking for a long-distance access code. wasn’t sure what that was, so I sent an e-mail to the head of theater education instead. turns out she’s accepted a position at a university in texas and is leaving soon, so she referred me to the current head of the department. she did add this, though:</p>
<p>“A word of advice - if there is a graduate acting program, there usually not as many opportunities for undergraduates. That being said, Temple has second stage productions in which students can be involved and also directing scenes in which they may perform.”</p>
<p>When I asked the department chair about these second stage productions, she said that they were “smaller shows present on our stages or in our rehearsal hall. These can be projects directed by graduate students or undergraduate students, musical theater scenes and cabarets, acting scenes, poetry readings, fight choreography scenes, and each semester we have an exhibit of all the design work our set, lighting, props and costume designers have done.” She told me to contact her assistant chair, Peter Reynolds (<a href=“mailto:peterr@temple.edu”>peterr@temple.edu</a>), for even more details about student performance opportunities. </p>
<p>I loved how promptly they responded to my e-mails. I hope it was helpful, glassharmonica!</p>
<p>Thank you, butterflies! Temple’s acting MFA sounds interesting-- it is for mid-career artists. I suppose there are pros and cons to being in an environment where there are high level older actors likely to take most of the roles. However, a lot of the education is about process… and some schools don’t cast freshman actors. I might be incorrect (going by memory) but I think that Juilliard actors don’t appear in productions until their junior year…</p>
<p>hi guys, I couldn’t figure out which thread to post this question in so I’m hoping someone will see it here. I was looking at the racial breakdown of Columbia College. If it’s only 3% asian, does that mean they’ll probably be looking to increase that percentage in order to increase diversity? it’s a relatively low number compared to other schools. I know there’s no real way to tell this kind of thing about a school, but generally does this mean anything?</p>