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- HijoDMaite
I will be starting as a Junior in about one month. I am pretty excited but anxious at the same time. I left my career to go back to school. I was accepted so first step is taken care of.
Does anyone have any experience with this school? I'm studying communications but interested in their poly sci, visual arts, and cog sci departments. also.Thanks.
- Douglas0
Doesn't Barbra Kruger teach there? I've heard good things with their art+technology program as well.
- I've heard lots of good stuff about the graduate arts programs.
HijoDMaite
- I've heard lots of good stuff about the graduate arts programs.
- monospaced0
I went there. I was head of the festivals committee and lead designer for the Associated Students (I designed that shitty logo over 10 years ago). I was a Revelle student and a Sociology major. It's been awhile, but if you have questions I might be able to help.
- I earned a Visual Arts minor, but it was mostly lectures and not so great on the applied workmonospaced
- haha I like the logo. good job!HijoDMaite
- I didn't even consider design until after I graduated. My work there is definitely amateur.monospaced
- oh shit, the AS logo I designed is now gone...replaced with the previous one (thank god)monospaced
- Journalism SDSU was my first option but got straight DENIED! (Most B.A. at SDSU is harder to get in to now than UCSD if you can believe that.)HijoDMaite
- can believe that.HijoDMaite
- HijoDMaite0
@ Monospaced. You never switched out of Revelle?? I got in to Revelle and keep getting spooked by everyone regarding it.
- monospaced0
Never switched out. I went to that school knowing it was for well-rounded individuals, but it hit me during my first year that they have higher GE requirements than any other program in the state. I persevered and made it out well.
- nocomply0
I am a fellow UCSD alumni. Class of 04.
Double majored in Interdisciplinary Computing & the Arts (ICAM) and history.
Their communications/poly sci departments are very well respected. My wife also went there and double majored in comm/poly sci.
Overall my experience was a good one, but UCSD is different than many other colleges in that it really lacks a solid campus life and the surrounding community is anything but a college town. I think making it a good experience will depend a lot on the people you meet and the relationships you seek out once you're there. There just aren't that many opportunities for meeting people that fall into your lap, especially if you're a commuter student.
As for the Arts dept... I personally found it to be a little but elitist, but at the time I was heavy into design - not art. UCSD does NOT teach design, so perhaps part of the problem was my own attitude back then. My art courses were also heavy on theory, which bored me to pieces. I graduated with a disdain for art which took a while to go away, but again I think a lot of that is due to my lack of maturity at the time.
Fortunately my experience in the History dept. really made up for all that. I found those classes to be extremely rewarding, even if I forget most of what I learned by now.
Feel free to email me with questions.
- Thanks. I will take you up on that. Comm/Poly Sci is what I am leaning towards also. Has you wife found a good job?HijoDMaite