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I was responding to the post about a three year engineering degree at Elon. It’s actually a five year degree. </p>
<p>Depending on the college, with a NON MT BFA it may be possible to work in an engineering degree. (That is what Michigan’s site was offering. Over 5+ years, though.) You have been talking abnout MT, however. Look at any engineering curriculum, check out the rigid availability of the course requirements, and you will see how little time is available to fit in artsy courses, which often meet for more hours than the credit hours would indicate. And often these courses are not open to non majors. </p>
<p>The Elon dual degree program is designed as a five year program. How could a musical theater kid complete his MT requirements if he is not on campus?</p>
<p>I think your initial misunderstanding was in assuming that a dual degree program mixing engineering with some type of arts/humanities program would include MT. It simply can’t. Other posters have spoken about how many classroom hours their kids must put in (much more than credit hours) and the packed evenings & weekends of rehearsals, etc. I don’t have a kid in MT yet. But I take them at their word. I did attend an engineering school & am married to an engeineer. I know that an engineering schedule is very rigid. It’s not like a humanities major, where you can fill a social studies requirment from a selection of 50+ courses. You must take specific courses in all engineering disciplines, such as discrete mathematics, or thermodynamics. No flexibility. Meaning no flexibility in either choice of course, & very little in timing of courses. Elon is acknowledging this by structuting a NON MT/engineering dual degree program over five years. An environmental science degree might work. But not a MT/engineering combo.</p>