<p>As a senior MT at CMU, I can say we do take a little more outside classes than this board is highlighting. You take both an english and a history requirement your freshman year as well as an 8 week computing skills course which everyone in the University is required to take, and sophomore year you can choose a class that is in the school of H&SS or the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Middle States review found that the musical theater majors lack a course their junior year, so there is also room for a course outside of the school of drama. There are also MT kids who are successfully minoring, it doesn’t always happen, but they find a way to make it work around their schedule. But we are in fact a conservatory in a university setting, so we aren’t a LAC. But, we do get the opportunity to take outside classes, it’s just having the will to find them.
Hope this helps,
CarnegieMT2012</p>