so ive sent an email to accd admissions asking about which gen. ed credits i can receive at PCC thatl transfer to accd. they told me general information on specific credits and this:
Transferred credits can reduce the total number of classes you need to take at Art Center. They do not necessarily reduce the number of semesters you need to attend, however, so you will probably need to attend the full eight semester program in order to earn a degree. Transfer credits also do not reduce your tuition expense, since our tuition is charged by the semester and not by the unit.
so does this mean taking courses at PCC would only give me less classes to take in ACCD while still paying for the full 8 terms for a degree??
ps, do people usually attend pcc to get rid of GE requirements for the program at accd or to take some art classes to prepare for accd? if preparing, which art classes would be good for a freshman at college? (the only art classes ive took in high school are foundations of art, studio art, studio art 3)
if that's true i'll be pissed.. if you take your GE classes at another school and/or transfer in studio credits.. and enough of them there's no way you should still be required to take 8 semesters. What are they gonna do, randomly pull classes out of their A$$'s for such people to take??
That's true. You will still need to go through full eight terms of ACCD. If you look at the course progression list, there is no way to circumvent it. At ACCD, you must take the courses that are sequenced out. In a way, it does make sense because people from differing terms wouldn't be able to take classes together due to skill discrepancies.
I heard of people who take the gen ed requirement at PCC so that they will invest more time into studio classes. Trust me, you will want to do that when each instructor will ask you to bring in 40 drawings by the following class.
If you want to take courses from PCC, I heard that Albert Yu is an excellent instructor.
Im thinking that there's something positive with doing GE at ACCD. Namely letting both sides of the brain work hard. Not just the right side By exercising both "holistic" thinking and "sequential/analytical" thinking in a regular basis , maybe then working on design processes from "conceptualization" to "actualization" will be a walk in the park... But I'm not there until September, so I'm still all talk.
Originally posted by bk: ps, do people usually attend pcc to get rid of GE requirements for the program at accd or to take some art classes to prepare for accd? if preparing, which art classes would be good for a freshman at college? (the only art classes ive took in high school are foundations of art, studio art, studio art 3)
Get up to English 3 (or english literature), Math (pre-calculus), and Sciences (Physics, Chem, Bio, Geo/Astro, all w/ labs) out of the way with a B+ or better (think scholarship consideration), and you should be in the right direction. If Stan Kong still teaches at PCC, then find him too.
Originally posted by angeladay: That's true. You will still need to go through full eight terms of ACCD...
I heard of people who take the gen ed requirement at PCC so that they will invest more time into studio classes. Trust me, you will want to do that when each instructor will ask you to bring in 40 drawings by the following class.
so just to clarify, people are paying tuition for course at a college which they are going to be taking again at another college? or will you not need to take the courses at accd but still pay for them? im a bit confused on how the 8 terms work there.
Originally posted by bk: ... will you not need to take the courses at accd but still pay for them? ...
Each school year consists of 3 terms. (Spring, Summer, Fall). The full-time bachelor's curriculum has 8 terms until graduation. Which equates to more than 2 years and a half, should you attend each term consecutively. The tuition for ea term is fixed (ie; 15k/term) and students are appointed 5+ classes: 3-4 studios and 2 GE.
Even after you're transferring-in GE classes, (makes for 3-4 studio classes without additional GE per term) students STILL pay the full amount tuition for that term. (Unless you're withdrawing in less than a month, then there's a degree of percentage in tuition forgiveness)
The point is to take away the times needed for GE classes that you will have to pay for anyway, so you get extra quality time to focus more into the studio classes and its projects.
Originally posted by AMH: The point is to take away the times needed for GE classes that you will have to pay for anyway, so you get extra quality time to focus more into the studio classes and its projects.
thanks, that bit of info helped alot. personally i would think taking the ge courses over there would make a lot more sense especially for me since im not the richest man in the world (out-of-state tuition is not a joke). im considering acan a good choice as of now
thanks for actually pointing this part out was all i needed
art center is really starting to piss me off. -What kind of crap is that, charging students the same amount for a semester whether they're taking 2 GE classes a semester or not. That's absolutely ridiculous.
Originally posted by LiGHTWORKEr: art center is really starting to piss me off. -What kind of crap is that, charging students the same amount for a semester whether they're taking 2 GE classes a semester or not. That's absolutely ridiculous.
I think they do that so that the upper term students remain better skill wise than the lower term students. I.e. a student in term 3 is theoretically better than a term 1 student, and if a term 1 student skips gen Ed courses and moves up to term 3 as a result, he will be destroyed skill wise by the term 3 kids.
