Don't know how to choose a school if you want to study abroad? There are actually two kinds of things that people who are going abroad to study art often struggle with: they don't know what major to choose, and they don't know what they want to study at all? Or know what to learn But I don't know where to learn? Today, we will take the illustration of SVA, RISD and MICA as an example to make a simple target school and parallel comparison of courses!

For the former one, unless you give Guangguang a chance to know you! Otherwise, you can't give any advice, because the choice of profession must be based on your own interests and future planning!

But for the second kind of entanglement, Guangguang Jun still has an exclusive secret recipe. In fact, there is a lot of information on the official website of colleges and universities for reference. From the "soft power" of teachers to the "hard conditions" of equipment and environment, the official website has very comprehensive information, especially the curriculum settings. The official website is usually very detailed! Today we will take the illustration of SVA, RISD and MICA as an example to make a simple Target colleges, parallel comparison of courses!

First, first step

We need to find the homepage of illustration major of three universities

SVA

RISD

MICA

Step 2

We open it directly Curriculum

Look at three schools Same major

stay course arrangement What's the difference on!

First, the first year:

SVA

RISD

MICA

　　 In general: Drawing and Painting are very basic courses for most majors studying abroad in art, and all three universities have them. (Painting refers to painting with color, such as oil paint, watercolor or ink painting, while drawing usually refers to drawing with pencil, pen or chalk)

　　 Art History， Art history will involve the process stages of art development, art schools, and some art theories, which will greatly help improve students' humanistic quality and academic ability. SVA is two continuous compulsory courses, which can show the importance attached to this course; RISD also has special courses, and there are also elective courses in this direction in the list of elective courses; MICA did not see the relevant content in the First Year curriculum.

Seeing this, I don't like writing papers

Friends who are too lazy to read theory

Maybe MICA

MICA Humanities courses total 42 credits

It needs to be completed during college

Analysis of various art histories, various "isms" and various genres

Learn art, just do it, not use your head

That's basically impossible

The unique part is that SVA has sculpture courses and literature courses that are not available in the other two schools; RISD has design and space dynamics; MICA has specialized courses on design and color.

Then comes the comparison of sophomore courses:

SVA

RISD

MICA

In the second year, the teaching modes of the three schools are very different.

　　 First SVA There are still painting and color courses, but they have begun to contact the theoretical and practical courses of fine illustration (such as Principle of illustration), and have arranged courses involving Storytelling to help students build their own creative logic.

　　 RISD In the sophomore stage , is still training students' painting ability, and even has courses for observational painting, and painting based on imagination. But the systematic illustration theory course, RISD sophomore has not yet, in other words: RISD, is very basic.

　　 Having seen the MICA course , do you think Why are there so few classes? In fact, it is not. The 42 credits in the last part are to be completed by semester. Different from SVA and RISD, MICA has no basic painting course in its sophomore year and began to learn illustration systematically.

Junior, senior, most majors

They are all professional courses, Studio

And corresponding courses of graduation works

Only pictures are displayed here!

SVA

RISD

MICA

Today's summary

The official website of the university can really find all kinds of information

Go to Dream School's official website

I'm sure I can get a lot of surprises

However, the official website is not good

Information is Flat

Only simple display and data

Learning experience, classroom atmosphere, learning environment, etc

Emotional and experienced Stereoscopic information

The official website is hard to satisfy

How is London University of the Arts? No longer afraid of wrong choices

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