<p>I am currently a senior Classics major and Theatre minor. Recently I was told that I am only a few credits away form completing the Theatre major requirements. However, accruing those additional credits would require me to graduate a semester later than my intended date (this spring). So... do you think it's worth it to stay an additional semester and get the Theatre degree as well? Are there any additional benefits or job prospects that will become available if I obtain both degrees?</p>
<p>No. Graduating on time is priceless. There are zero professional benefits to having a second major.</p>
<p>I agree with NavalTradition. Especially since you will already have the minor in theatre. It’s not going to give you any different professional opportunities and you have to ask yourself if staying the extra semester is likely to make you a better actor or theatre professional.</p>
<p>I’ll be the dissenter! Do you want those additional few credits? Would you want your resume to show that double-major? Can you afford that extra semester? </p>
<p>I have a second minor that is by all accounts useless but I am more proud of that minor than I am of my GPA or anything else about my degree.</p>
<p>Well, the question is “Where do you want to be in five or ten years, and will that extra major help get you there?”</p>
<p>If you want a career in classics, it seems to me that you are going to need to go to graduate school. Or else get a teaching certificate to teach high school (but I don’t think there is much demand for high school Latin teachers in the USA today). You don’t need an extra major in theatre to accomplish those things.</p>
<p>If you want to be an actor, you don’t really need a degree at all. Many succesful actors have no degrees. It might be worth taking the extra classes if you are sure they will make you a better actor and more competitive at auditions.</p>
<p>If you just want to have theatre as a hobby, then you don’t need a degree or major in it at all.</p>
<p>It’s really not possible to have two careers if one of them is acting. People who make their career in acting have “survival jobs” that are flexible enough to let them go to auditions when they need to, take off time from work, or even quit the survival job if they get a big acting job. The typical jobs that fit this are waiting tables–which can be very flexible with shifts and so on, or temp work–again very flexible because you can just say “I am not available on these days and times”.</p>
<p>So, where do you want to be in five or ten years?</p>
<p>KEVP</p>