Question: Hi. i am a senior girl in high school. i have like 2 months of school left til i graduate. i am gonna go to a nearby community college next year because i dont feel ready for a 4 yr yet and i cant afford a 4 yr right now. I love art and the main things i was to do for a career are graphic design, web design, photography, animation, and special effects. so mostly digital art i would say. im only going to community college to get my "general ed" out of the way, and after two yrs at the community college, i want transfer into a 4 year. so my question is, what classes exactly will i be taking for the two years at community college? i am very confused...please help!
Answer: Something you should consider is what university you plan on attending after CC. When you make your decision, search through the transfer student site for the university, and see which credits transfer over. Some universities will accept AA and AS, even AFA, towards an exemption for general requirements. Some do not, but will accept certain credits towards their gen ed. However the case, make sure that you speak with an advisor and inform them of your plans.
Good luck.
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You need to look at the catalogs for the four year schools you would like to attend. If they are for-profit design schools, you may not need any gen. ed. credits and would be better off getting started with art classes. If they are four year liberal arts colleges, you should start your gen. ed. classes right away.
Also consider the differences between these two types of 4-year schools. An art/design school will not provide you with any transfer credit if you change your mind about your degree or if you have to move to another school. You will start all over again. If you transfer to a conventional four year college you will have a better chance of retaining those credits, going to grad school if you want to teach (which a lot of artists do).
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You should consult with staff at both your community college, and potential 4-year schools you are interested in attending, and ask them what classes are required for admission as a transfer student in graphic design (or whatever it is that you would like to get your Bachelor's in). Oftentimes the general education courses would be taken at the community college, but the exact requirements are specific to individual 4-year schools, hence you have to contact the 4-year school. The community college should be consulted to identify classes which would satisfy the requirement of the 4-year school.
I went to a small community college (about 3,000 students on my campus), so there weren't too many classes offered beyond the core requirements. I was a communications major at the time, so I took comm. courses as well as the core stuff - American history, some science, English, et cetera.
But I don't know what a degree plan in your area would require. If you know which four-year schools you'd like to attend in the future, visit their Web sites. Check out the degree plans/requirements for the degree you're interested in earning. That will tell you, for example, how many English classes you might need...and which ones. Same for science and math and such.
Another option is to go speak to the academic adviser/counselor at the community college. At mine, the adviser had huge books full of degree plans for four-year schools all over my state. I went in to speak with the adviser my first semester of community college. That way, she was able to tell me which CC courses I could take, which ones would easily transfer to the four-year school, which classes would actually be in my four-year degree plan, et cetera.
And if your CC is a decent size, it should offer some art classes. I took two semesters of photography at my CC.
Talk to admissions at the community college and at the 4 year that you eventually want to attend - not all classes will transfer so don't waste your time and money on useless credits.
You'll most likely take humanities (like pysch, soco, or anthro), some of lit (like comp1 or eng101), a math, and a science.
Basically there are classes that every freshman needs regardless of their major of college - gen ed (general education requirements).You might be able to an art class and have it count towards a gen ed, it all depends on the 4 year college, give them a call, college admissions counslers get questions like that all the time and they are best people to help!
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