Philadelphia University

Date: Feb 01 2007
Major: Design Arts - Industrial Design/Graphic Design/etc (This Major's Salary over time)
First off, my ratings were an average of my views, and my roomates views. I am an animation major, he is an architect major. My first semester i had a great design teacher, who was very knowledgable, and from university of the arts. I had an incredible amount of work, more than the architects, but i learned as much as physically possible within the 14 weeks. I have had previous art experience, and was hoping to be challenged in my major. Yet being an computer animation major, i dont start classes on the computer until junior year, and by then, i will have had only 7 art classes and 13 liberal arts classes. My gpa was ruined when i recieved a C+ in Calc 1 my first semester, which the requirement for my major is only precalc, so i skipped finite, precalc, and intro to calc, and by second semester i will have taked calc 2, so there is no reason i should have to be in that class, considering i never took calc in high school. Then i met with the poorly designed animation department, who none of which know exactly what is going on, and just put the animation majors into the same first year courses as fashion design. If you are a design student and you want to learn design, and be challenged with hard workers, this is not the place for you, the students complain whenever a little bit of work is given, and the school favors athletes. An athelete in my hall had shot a girl with a paintball gun, was caught with cocaine in his room, and trashed the halls, and his punishment was to be moved to a different hall. Most of the design students are not artists, they "like to shop" so they majored in fashion. And the animation majors "like to play video games" so they thought it would be cool to make them.—That was all my view of it. But my roomate is very happy here, he is an architect and has alot of work, which he likes because he is learning. The good thing about architect major is that people drop out and get failed out if they cannot handle the work, if you want to major in architecture this is a fine school