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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Fine Arts - Painting/Sculpture/Photography/etc  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright There is some lost experience of the typical university, but this school helps focus on the fine arts and offers an experience you could not get at a normal university. If you are looking for the typical college experience this school is not for you. Surrounding City: A+, Campus Aesthetics: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jul 28 2008 3rd Year Female -- Class 2009    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=53127&uid=437'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Interior Design  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright It's a CR/NC grading system so there is not so much competition, and they don't critique in a way that will hurt your feelings. They expect you to have some artistic skills when you arrive, so they will not teach you core skills like drawing, computer graphics, or model-making. If you don't have those skills, learn fast or die. If you choose to skate through and barely pass, you can, and you will graduate without learning much. If you push yourself and are disciplined, however, you will learn a lot and come out with some great things in your portfolio. Surrounding City: A+, Extracurricular Activities: D Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Dec 26 2007 2nd Year Male -- Class 2009    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=43009&uid=437'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Art & Design Department  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright My daughter went to the Summer high School program. She received a nice scholarship which helped the $4000 tag as we were coming from the west coast and are of low to moderate means. We received the materials list and purchased as much as could fit into the suitcase. (about $200 of supplies for a 3 week course) The first day her teacher encouraged the kids to go to a lunch time lecture which most of them did. The lecture ended a bit after the afternoon class started and when they returned to class they were told that they were "Tardy" and that it could affect their grade. When they tried to talk to the teacher about why they were late she put them off and wouldn't listen to them. Day 2: someone asked where they could purchase the required list of materials and the teacher (a SAIC grad) said, "Oh, you won't need any of those things. We have enough." NOT. There weren't enough supplies for the class and students were constantly scrambling for charcoal, brushes, etc. The course description included figure drawing (NUDE) and how-to stretch your own canvasses. When asked when they were going to start these techniques the teacher JODIE said,"That will take too much time away from our painting time" and "I haven't hired a model for the summer class so we won't be doing figure drawing...". Several of these High Schoolers insisted on the figure drawing and they got it...kinda. When I viewed my daughter's work when she returned home there were two paintings with a model: the model WAS FULLY CLOTHED! Critiques with this "teacher" were brutal unless you were her pet and her favorite phrase was "I love this moment in your work" which became a snide comment amongst the kids. After 4 days most of the kids just gave up and did "Safe" work. How sad! On the last afternoon the students had a chance to visit the other classes and see their work. Upon entering one of the other studios a student from my daughter's class said, "We were so gyped." The quality, size and breadth of the works were amazing, open and free. In my daugher's class the pieces were small and timid. The last thing was the Evaluation. The teacher stayed in the room making tactless comments to the students while they were supposed to be critiquing her. I am a college graduate and this is NOT the way a valid evaluation is conducted. When asked how the student's rated her, they all said they gave her a 4 out of 5...Why I asked? Jodie holds the grade which we need on our transcript. No one gave her any positive remarks so that they didn't have to lie and no one gave her any negative feedback so that we could get the "A" (Which they all did.) Overall a great time in the dorms, made MANY friends, had a great TA, loved the museum and the city. Gad, for the price stay home and take art lessons. Campus Aesthetics: A-, Education Quality: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Aug 21 2007 1st Year Female -- Class 2011    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=40819&uid=437'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Video/Media  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright I'm doing multimedia studies in sound, video, and performance. The school's system is open. You don't need to declare a major, so you can adapt your studies to your needs as a contemporary artist. I guess with any sort of college, you need to provide most of the motivation and energy towards creating challenges. It's pretty tricky when you have to have divide your brain's creative capacity to a wide range of practices. Faculty Accessibility: A+, Extracurricular Activities: C- Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Apr 20 2007 2nd Year Female -- Class 2009    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=37879&uid=437'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save      Prev    Select Page:  1  2  3    Next

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