Some important notes from Ames' lecture:
- CCC is a liberal education school and that means this is NOT a trade school. You will be taking courses outside of your major and you will always be working with writing and communication in some capacity. This is not punishment, it is an opportunity to make sure whatever statement you want to make can be made clearly.
- Try to engage your ideas in the fullest way you can. When you are struggling to do this, ask for help.
- This is not compartmentalized and everything will merge together. This will often happen in really messy and confusing ways, but it will make sense. Sometimes this sense will come years later--after you've already complained about it not making sense.
- Martin and Lindsey brought up some awesome points:
- Is college, especially an art school, a place to hone your skill and learn about the industry? Do you already come here with self awareness?
- Is college where you discover the self and begin to determine what skills you are good at?
This dialectic brings up a good question, WHAT IS THE INTENTION/GOAL OF A COLLEGE EDUCATION? Also, HOW IS ART DIFFERENT FROM CRAFT/SKILL and WHAT DOES SELF AWARENESS HAVE TO DO WITH ALL OF THIS?
Hopefully we'll get to talk about this in class, but feel free to blog too.
yes i think college is a place to hone your skill and better yourself at your craft so that you can better yourself and to help prepare you for a career in the industry.. also there are lots of ppl that are not sure what they want to do in life and college can help them pick what they want to do in life by trying each major they like....
ReplyDeletecoollege is ment for us to prepare ourselves to go into the world we find ourselves in the process but to say that college is espically ment for you to find ur selves is not true i found my slef without even being in school
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