<p>Hey, </p>
<p>Im currently a Junior in High School and im wanting to major in Musical Theatre at either Texas State or Sam Houston. I was wondering if you’re able to minor in either secondary education or all level education while majoring in MT?</p>
<p>Hey there BroadwayKing17. We are currently researching the degree options at the Texas schools too, and I am starting a notebook and it just so happens that those are the first two schools I have printed out! </p>
<p>From what I have gathered, MT is so intense in the three disciplines that it pretty much uses every hour you have to get your degree on MT stuff and doesn’t leave much time for other courses so it might be hard to fit those teaching certificate classes in there. I talked to the department head at SHSU the other day and oh let me see if I can remember - my daughter also wants to do two things but instead of teaching she wants costuming. So I asked a similar question to yours and the department head (Penelope Hasekoester I think it was) said that there really isn’t time to fit anything extra into the MT degree. I might have misunderstood that or it might be different for teaching: I think you will probably have to call the schools and ask that yourself.</p>
<p>(and I think they would be impressed that you were calling to ask: I’m about to start making my daughter make her own calls now that she is home from dance convention.) From what I can tell TSU has the same separation between MT and teaching. When I talked to TSU I found out they have a program that my d might like even better than MT: it sounds tailor made for her, it’s P&P (production and performance!) and I have not yet encountered that anywhere else so apparently degrees differ and if one school doesn’t offer a way to get a teaching cert while in MT, perhaps another does.</p>
<p>It might be a matter of taking extra courses in the summer, perhaps.</p>
<p>Good luck, I hope you find that one of them has a way you can do that. Also you do know that admission to MT in both those are by audition and getting more selective by the day. (thanks, “Glee”, for adding some 300,000 putative MT students to the line…lol…)</p>
<p>This is new to me too though so perhaps another poster will have already asked and gotten answers to that question. ;-)</p>
<p>FWIW, my D and I saw a production of “Drowsy Chaperone” in Austin last Friday, and it had several Texas State and Sam Houston cast members. Very talented cast overall. It even had Texas State’s dance/choreography teacher Robin Lewis playing the tap dancing role of the best man. That guy is good.</p>
<p>That guy is great :)</p>
<p>Saw him as well. He is incredible and the kids at Texas State are lucky to have him.</p>
<p>Hey BroadwayKing17,
I am currently a sophomore Musical Theatre major at Texas State, brought in by Kaitlin Hopkins, and there are students at the school who double major, but it is EXTREMELY difficult, I am only an MT major and I hardly have any free time for anything let alone another major between homework, learning scenes/monologues, and rehearsals for shows. </p>
<p>It is an option to double major and Kaitlin extremely encourages you following whatever other endeavors you may have, but it would be difficult and probably unrealilstic to think you would get out in 4 years, however there is a performance and production BFA major with teacher cert that a some students are pursuing. We actually have a CCM transfer that is doing that, but is also involved with musical production, MT dance classes, etc, but there are only a few rare cases. I’m sure if you are talented Kaitlin would use you, but it is harder to get involved under that degree plan, but definitely not an impossibility.</p>
<p>If you have any other questions feel free to ask and maybe even send me a message and we can chat via facebook since I am on there more than here…hope this helped!! =)</p>
<p>All the best!!</p>