<p>Tisch students don’t have to wait until they are done with gen eds to take electives – they can take electives alongside these classes, and they also can fulfill gen eds right up until second semester of senior year. They do meet with academic advisers along the way to see how they are fulfilling their requirements. Tisch academics do include seven semesters of theater studies; these are not done in the studios, but on the alternating days.</p>
<p>Some (if not all) of the performance electives must be at most two credits, because my daughter is taking her second one right now, and both times, she carried two full credit academic courses as well (ie., if the electives were four credits, we’d have had to pay extra because that’s over the per semester maximum included in tuition).</p>
<p>The flexibility that comes with the Tisch curriculum is that students need a minimum of six semesters of professional training (the full-time studio) but can take up to eight semesters of it, and they can complete a semester of studio over the summer as well. Any acting electives are additional options, not substitutions for the studio requirements. So, there are a variety of ways for students to mix and match performance and academic interests (freshman and sophomore years must be studio years; junior and senior years there is the flexibility to change studios or take a semester or two for strictly “academic” studies).</p>
<p>While each studio is different in how they structure their curriculum, I would be surprised if the total number of hours varied much – if it’s 8 credits, then I would imagine that there are class hour standards by which each studio must abide.</p>