How valuable is the overseas study program for art students? First of all, what is the starting point for students? Some students take part in the study tour to learn about the colleges they want to study in the future; Some students go to the outside world to see; Some are to go to overseas colleges and universities to feel the foreign teaching mode and see if they can adapt to it... Different starting points, the consideration of whether the study tour is valuable will naturally vary from person to person. Compared with the original official summer school, the cost of travel provided by institutions is indeed much more expensive, which is one of the reasons why some students think that travel is a "corporate profit routine".

　　 Is the overseas study program of art students valuable?

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But in fact, you may not have considered that the cost of overseas art students' study abroad program covers food, insurance, accommodation and other expenses, but the official summer school of the school often does not. Unless the students themselves are overseas, it can really save a lot of money.

Secondly, in terms of the definition of study tour itself, it is actually "learning" in the process of "traveling". It is a combination of playing and learning. If you pursue fully academic overseas projects, most study tours may be "worthless".

So, how to select travel products for students who want to pursue high academic value?

First of all, we can take the duration of the project as a reference. For example, for the 15 day overseas project, if the content of the tour is arranged for more than 5 days, then its academic value will be relatively low (because most of the current study tour projects include the travel time of about 2 days).

High quality academic overseas projects not only have a more compact schedule, but also usually produce substantial works or obtain valuable documents such as unique project experience, official certificates or tutor recommendation letters.

During the Spring Festival holiday this year, the students of the New Zealand study tour project organized by Natural Light and Huhu Studios, under the leadership of the international first-line tutor team, completed the animation short film of fighting the epidemic from scratch in 10 days, and received exclusive reports from many Chinese and foreign media and colleges.

Natural light and Huhu Studios, the 4th New Zealand [Hollywood Masters] Animation&Film Workshop

After the end, each academic also received a recommendation letter from the tutor and a study/internship certificate issued by Huhu Studios Animation Studio. This kind of study tour project is very efficient in terms of schedule and actual output.

Natural light and Huhu Studios, the 4th New Zealand [Hollywood Masters] Animation&Film Workshop

For another example, some projects that can be given credit are also directions that students can consider. However, it needs to be determined according to its own needs: some of the income from travel programs can be shared by multiple alliance schools when applying, and can be directly converted into credits; Another example is that some credits are for a certain school, so these two kinds of credits correspond to student groups with different needs.

Generally speaking, it is a safe choice to directly apply for the summer program provided by the school official; If you want to select Art study institutions If it is organized, then it is necessary to focus on the substantive and concrete content that can be obtained in the end, rather than the gimmicks such as expanding vision and improving skills. If you want to know more students, come to find free advice on natural light.

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