My son just got accepted to the BFA drama program and I was wondering if he can take elective classes at the Newhouse School of Television, Radio & Film? And can he minor there?
I doubt it is possible to minor, but you’d have to check with SU.
Newhouse’s info page states that it offers the following as minors -
http://coursecatalog.syr.edu/preview_entity.php?catoid=11&ent_oid=350&returnto=1455
- Communications Photography
- Public Communications Studies
And, the Acting BFA at Syracuse University is a very selective and rigorous pre-professional training program. While I understand that some BFA Acting candidates are able to work in a minor, I don’t think it is easy or likley to be in Newhouse, but I may be wrong. As I understood from the info session, I believe most of these students are pretty exhausted each day by their obligations just in the Drama School. I seem to recall them debating how often they bothered to “walk up the hill” to the rest of the University, even to eat in a dining center, rather than just stay in and around the theater building - http://vpa.syr.edu/academics/drama/undergraduate/acting
Here is a link to what are considered Academic Electives, and non-lab Newhouse courses are there, so it may well be possible to take some as the 24 credits in Academic Electives required for the BFA.
http://vpa.syr.edu/uploads/downloads/VPA_Academic_Courses.pdf
Your son is both talented and lucky to have secured a spot in the BFA Acting Program - congratulations! My daughter is still anxiously awaiting to hear whether or not she has been accepted to the same program.