What is the typical semester like for an "Arts" student?

[Mucman]

From my observations at school the seem to have it made! They have so much free time and I never see them doing any work... usually they are
talking with friends and having a good time. Walk into the Engineering/Applied Science wing and all you see are people with heads in their books.

 

[notfred]

They draw a few pictures, skip thier philosophy class, complain about how hard thier "algebra for non-sciene majors" class is. A lot of stuff like that.

 

[ohtwell]

Originally posted by: Mucman
From my observations at school the seem to have it made! They have so much free time and I never see them doing any work... usually they are
talking with friends and having a good time. Walk into the Engineering/Applied Science wing and all you see are people with heads in their books.

I notice that too when I walk into the Education building here. There are always people in the chairs or sitting on the floor reading the text and their notes.

Don't know about the schedule of Art students though.


: ) Amanda

 

[m2kewl]

Originally posted by: notfred
They draw a few pictures, skip thier philosophy class, complain about how hard thier "algebra for non-sciene majors" class is. A lot of stuff like that.

that's so true!! i've overheard some girl say to another, "oh sh!t, my trig homework is due today, i hate trig! - did you happen to go to prof. xxx's last lecture?!" when i was taking art101 for gen-ed credits.

 

[ScottyB]

I am so sick of computers and math I am switching to English as my major. All that highschool work down the drain

 

[LH]

Do you mean liberial arts? IE a BA? Because Fine Art majors(BFA) will be in the studio much of the week. A BFA is pretty easy to get if you are a talented artist, as you gotta get in the the Fine Arts school, which is pretty competitive at most four year universities that offer it. Once you make it into the Fine Arts school its mostly just studio time. Basically are BFA is the basic classes(two history classes, two english classes , two science classes, college algebra), electives, and a bunch of studio time. Its not a hard major if you can get in and are a talented artist.

 

[johnjohn320]

Music Majors are usually practicing if they're not in class, etc.

I have no idea about like, visual artists though.

 

[Mucman]

I guess I mean psychology,liberal arts, philosophy, linguistics... heck anything not a math/science

 

[LH]

They'd be in studio.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: Mucman
I guess I mean psychology,liberal arts, philosophy, linguistics... heck anything not a math/science

I'm a liberal arts major and I spend alot of time here.
Liberal arts may look easy to you because not alot of time is spent practicing working equations and other monkeywork like that... but try my American History class.

 

[m2kewl]

Originally posted by: Jellomancer
I'm a liberal arts major and I spend alot of time here.

well that's b/c you're a neffer you get credits for this?

 

[sobriquet]

Originally posted by: johnjohn320
Music Majors are usually practicing if they're not in class, etc.

As a music major, I have to take two years of music theory (8 hours a week and only 4 units, pretty crappy), two years of music history, and craploads of performance classes. To give you an idea, this quarter I'm in Wind Ensemble, Orchestra, Brass Choir, Tuba Quartet, and several other groups I don't get credit for. On top of that, add in at least two hours of practicing every day. I'm in the music building from 11 AM to at least 7 PM every day (except friday, then only until 3 PM or so).

 

[xuanman]

i was a liberal arts major in econ and history and definitely enjoyed my free time! my suitemates were all enginerds (my g/f is an enginerd too, i love engineers!), and they pretty much played quake and diablo2 all day and then pulled all-nighters to get problem sets done...college was the good life...

 

[BillGates]

Art: what a worthless major!

Isn't art about a person's creativity? How can you make people go to class to LEARN some art style.

I can just hear the hippie teachers: "NONO, that art is all wrong. Even though it is all individual creativity, it is WRONG. Your unique creativity is incorrect, and you fail!"

That or they just sit in class all day and make bongs out of pottery clay.

 

[Whisper]

The majority of a liberal arts major's time is spent reading. I'm a psych major and english minor, and can attest to this first hand. Weekly essays and tests are about as much fun as my weekly organic chem lab was. Good thing I dropped pre-med, or I'd be crying right now

It may look like us liberal arts peoples have more free time because we're more prone to procrastination than you and your fellows. I know that quite a few times this semester I've pulled all-nighters for my abnormal psych tests, and I have yet to begin writing my weekly essay before Thursday (due each friday morning). I'm finally getting back into my old study habits, but ironically it comes just when I'm beginning to get into my research experience and internships. Ahh well, at least I'll be prepared for the hell that is grad school. Woohoo!

Oh, and to this:

Isn't art about a person's creativity? How can you make people go to class to LEARN some art style.

I say take an art class; you'll be surprised. Art is just like english/writing in that you'd think it's intuitive, and can't be taught. But try going through an art appreciation or critical reading and writing course without seeing your own works improve. The higher level courses generally help you in maturing your talent. As you learn to notice things in the work of others that you hadn't seen or paid attention to before you begin to assimilate those techniques, and then use them in your own stuff.

 

[bolido2000]

From my observations it seems that the non-science majors have a sh!tload of stuff to do too. Lots of reading and stuff. The science major might not have as much workload, but the hw are much harder, so it takes a lot of time to do. Some classes like my sociology are a joke. I never read any of the books assigned. I just paid attention in class and wrote out of my own experience and got 92% in the class. I wished I hadn't taken the class P/NP :disgust:

 

[BillGates]

Originally posted by: Whisper
The majority of a liberal arts major's time is spent reading. I'm a psych major and english minor, and can attest to this first hand. Weekly essays and tests are about as much fun as my weekly organic chem lab was. Good thing I dropped pre-med, or I'd be crying right now

It may look like us liberal arts peoples have more free time because we're more prone to procrastination than you and your fellows. I know that quite a few times this semester I've pulled all-nighters for my abnormal psych tests, and I have yet to begin writing my weekly essay before Thursday (due each friday morning). I'm finally getting back into my old study habits, but ironically it comes just when I'm beginning to get into my research experience and internships. Ahh well, at least I'll be prepared for the hell that is grad school. Woohoo!

Oh, and to this:

Isn't art about a person's creativity? How can you make people go to class to LEARN some art style.

I say take an art class; you'll be surprised. Art is just like english/writing in that you'd think it's intuitive, and can't be taught. But try going through an art appreciation or critical reading and writing course without seeing your own works improve. The higher level courses generally help you in maturing your talent. As you learn to notice things in the work of others that you hadn't seen or paid attention to before you begin to assimilate those techniques, and then use them in your own stuff.

Yeah, that's what I was talking about - you start to lose your unique style as you try to model your work after that that others have done.

If you want to be an artist, you really don't need to go to college - just sit down and paint some crap or whatever. If you really are a true artist you should be able to produce good things without having somebody looking over your shoulder telling you what you're doing wrong or how you should be doing it.

(I may be wrong about this; I hate "doing" art, but looking at it I don't mind. I spent 4 hours at an art museum yesterday and saw daVinci's first painting, pretty sweet)

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: BillGates

Originally posted by: Whisper
The majority of a liberal arts major's time is spent reading. I'm a psych major and english minor, and can attest to this first hand. Weekly essays and tests are about as much fun as my weekly organic chem lab was. Good thing I dropped pre-med, or I'd be crying right now

It may look like us liberal arts peoples have more free time because we're more prone to procrastination than you and your fellows. I know that quite a few times this semester I've pulled all-nighters for my abnormal psych tests, and I have yet to begin writing my weekly essay before Thursday (due each friday morning). I'm finally getting back into my old study habits, but ironically it comes just when I'm beginning to get into my research experience and internships. Ahh well, at least I'll be prepared for the hell that is grad school. Woohoo!

Oh, and to this:

Isn't art about a person's creativity? How can you make people go to class to LEARN some art style.

I say take an art class; you'll be surprised. Art is just like english/writing in that you'd think it's intuitive, and can't be taught. But try going through an art appreciation or critical reading and writing course without seeing your own works improve. The higher level courses generally help you in maturing your talent. As you learn to notice things in the work of others that you hadn't seen or paid attention to before you begin to assimilate those techniques, and then use them in your own stuff.

Yeah, that's what I was talking about - you start to lose your unique style as you try to model your work after that that others have done.

If you want to be an artist, you really don't need to go to college - just sit down and paint some crap or whatever. If you really are a true artist you should be able to produce good things without having somebody looking over your shoulder telling you what you're doing wrong or how you should be doing it.

(I may be wrong about this; I hate "doing" art, but looking at it I don't mind. I spent 4 hours at an art museum yesterday and saw daVinci's first painting, pretty sweet)

The problem is procrastination. I would be a good artist if I practiced more. I'm thinking of switching to Design for my major so I'm going to be practicing alot more. I got a book that teaches perspective... amazing how much better my 3d drawings are with 2 point perspective.

 

[LH]

Its alot easier to get a job with a BFA, than it is without it. Hell some game studios now require a BFA to get artist jobs. Your portfolio matters the most, but a BFA helps a great deal, an MFA can help alot to with certain companies.

 

[Jfur]

At a competitive liberal arts college most of them are reading dozens of primary texts each semester as well as taking advanced math and science courses.

 

[Aves]

I know that Art History classes at my school are pretty damn tough. Lots of studying, and writing.

I expected it to be a joke so I signed up for Survey of Asian Art and got 0wned. Had to drop it, it required way more outside time than I was willing/able to put in.

 

[0roo0roo]

you learn the art of making pr0n movies.

who said theres no money in art

 

[kgraeme]

I spent hours and hours a week drawing and photographing naked people.

 

[johnjohn320]

Originally posted by: BillGates
Art: what a worthless major!

Isn't art about a person's creativity? How can you make people go to class to LEARN some art style.

I can just hear the hippie teachers: "NONO, that art is all wrong. Even though it is all individual creativity, it is WRONG. Your unique creativity is incorrect, and you fail!"

That or they just sit in class all day and make bongs out of pottery clay.

Someone who feels this way is what makes people like me very sad, lol. This is exactly what people talk about when they say "Americans have no exposure to fine arts."

Of course you have your own creativity. But you have to know what you're doing first. There's two (general, broad) steps in learning music: Craft and Interpretation. For example, a carpenter can't just decide to build a really cool house with all sorts of neat features, and eye candy, etc, if he hasn't perfected everything that goes into building a house, using the tools, making everything structurally sound, etc. He has to be an engineer first, then worry about making it "cool" later.

I don't really know how to say it, other than I grieve for you if you see studying art as a worthless waste of time.

 

[0roo0roo]

lol,uknow how many art people work to make video games? or did you think comp sci people draw too