There are many situations in the application of art majors to study abroad, such as the application of art majors to study abroad for undergraduate, master, transfer to major art... and even the application of zero foundation art and second brush degree. Each situation has their problems and optimization methods, Today, the natural light will bring you a very detailed explanation of the application for studying abroad of art majors with different backgrounds in the undergraduate and master stages.
Undergraduate art majors apply for studying abroad:
The first situation is that the most common undergraduate art majors apply to study abroad. Many people believe that the artistic atmosphere in Europe and the United States is stronger than that in China. Foreign art education also focuses on the cultivation of students' artistic literacy and generalists. All qualified students tend to study abroad at the undergraduate stage.
The undergraduate courses of foreign art colleges focus on the cultivation of quality, aesthetics and creative thinking, so the admissions officer will not demand students to have super basic painting ability or be proficient in any software during the review, but focus on the ideas, preferences, experience and abilities reflected in the collection of works, documents and interviews.
The number of pages required for the collection of works of American colleges and universities is about 12 – 20, and the number of pages required for the collection of works of British colleges and universities is about 20 – 30. The collection of works requires students to show the production process of the collection of works, including sketches and drafts, regardless of the form, there must be a process. The second is the internal logic of the collection of works. Although the individual integrity of each work is important, the more important is the integrity.
Collection of works of natural light students applying for going abroad
0 Application for studying abroad for art majors of basic undergraduate courses:
Time strapped 0 basic students:
If the application time is very tight, for example, there are 6 to 8 months left. Or they hope to seamlessly connect to catch up with the opening of the applied college upon graduation. For those students who need to complete the application in a short time, we do not recommend that they go to basic courses like most art examinees to avoid unnecessary waste of time.
In the case of short time, students can focus on improving their thinking ability, exploring some innovative projects, and doing their best to make the projects interesting. A good idea can make up for the lack of basic ability, but it does not mean that basic skills are not important. When there is very little time to make a choice, choose an interesting project. The success rate will be higher than that of improving ability in a short time. Ability depends on accumulation, but inspiration can be obtained through the initiation teaching of instructors.
Students should never take this method as a shortcut. We should pay attention to the requirements of art colleges for undergraduate students. What the colleges want is not first-class students whose basic skills are trained. In particular, the teaching mode of overseas art colleges tends to be project based and studio based, and students need to have the ability of independent creation and practice, And independent thinking design thinking and creative logic. The purpose of teaching is to hope that students can further develop a deeper level of critical thinking, independent creative awareness, and the establishment of personal style in the process of continuous research and exploration. So you can hear the word Personal Voice frequently on the official websites of colleges and universities and in the videos of various admissions officers.
If you can see Personal Voice in your portfolio, the probability of successful application will be greatly increased, because it is easy to create portfolio, but it is not easy to create portfolio with unique personality and strong personal style. Imagine that the collection of works is a medium to show yourself to the school. If the admissions officer cannot see you in the collection of works, it is difficult to catch the attention of the admissions officer and lose the competitive advantage.
Colleges and universities need to know you through the collection of works. The monotonous and innovative project theme will be more dull than the collection without art foundation. However, project works with idea and strong theme guidance can move the admissions officer more.
Time sufficient 0 basic students:
If you have enough time, but do not have an art foundation, first congratulate you on being more sure to enter Dream School. Students in this situation can try to improve their basic ability while enlightening their thinking, because this can be your advantage after admission. The stronger the basic ability is, the higher the degree of realization and completion of good ideas will be.
Generally, most of the students who apply to art schools still have an art foundation, which means that you will meet many students who have a good foundation, or more accurately, a very good foundation and talent. Therefore, in the case of sufficient time, it is very helpful to study the basic courses again, whether it is for the completion of the portfolio or for the subsequent learning foundation after the start of school.
Students will also encounter various basic courses during the first semester of enrollment. These basic courses may be boring, which may cost you a lot of time and energy, and may have already learned them once. Why do we have to take these basic courses? Because the basic courses in China tend to master skills and theoretical knowledge, the content of basic courses in overseas art colleges tends to shape and cultivate students' awareness. In these courses, teachers teach students to explore constantly and discover their real interests through exploration. Therefore, even for basic courses, there is more room for in-depth study. What we gain in different courses is not only basic skills and theoretical knowledge, but also cognition and understanding of comprehensive aesthetics and design thinking.
The purpose of natural light for students' basic education tends to the teaching standards of foreign universities, focusing on cultivating students' independence and deep expression ability and consciousness in basic courses, and thinking creatively and analytically. At the same time of improving basic ability, they also pay more attention to aesthetics and artistic thinking, have a higher visual aesthetic awareness than ordinary people, and have basic visual art application and creative ability.
If the knowledge framework of basic courses is not well built, students are likely to encounter more problems and bottlenecks in later learning and creation. In particular, the ability of independent creation and practice favored by overseas universities, as well as the design thinking and creative logic of independent thinking, critical thinking, independent creation awareness, personal style, etc., all need correct guidance and education in the early stage to lay a good foundation.
Collection of works of natural light students applying for going abroad
Undergraduate art majors with art foundation apply for studying abroad:
If you are a student with good art foundation, you can have more time and experience to dig out some meaningful projects or things you want to express. In short, you need to strengthen the depth of your portfolio, which will be the best way to distinguish you from other applicants.
For example, many art schools now emphasize that students must pay attention to social realities, hoping that students can find and solve social problems from the perspective of designers and artists. If there are background surveys and project surveys in the works collection, then adding exploratory social issues similar to this is one way to deepen the depth of the works collection.
If students with a good foundation have a strong foundation and some theoretical knowledge of graphic design, including font design, format design, color matching, etc., they are encouraged to go beyond ordinary visual expression, add some attractive points to the small details of the collection, and try their best to make the collection perfect.
Applications for studying abroad for arts majors with bachelor's and master's degrees:
In addition to the above situations, there are also some students who have completed college and master's degree and want to go to another undergraduate course. Usually, in these cases, they will apply for a second undergraduate degree. First, students firmly want to learn more technology; Second, the specialty span is very large, so it is impossible to apply for a master's degree. For example, if business students want to study for a master's degree in fashion design and Dream School is Saint Martin, it is too difficult, because master's degree requires hard basic ability. However, no matter what kind of students, those who have undergraduate degrees, their personal three outlook shaping and academic ability are higher than those of high school graduates, so they can play their strengths in this area.
This kind of students can combine the original undergraduate major with the major they want to apply for, and try Collection of interdisciplinary overseas studies There are so many disciplines and categories under art. Artists and designers can get achievements in many ways that have nothing to do with their majors, not all of them are professional counterparts. And many of them also learn art and design in their later years. The original professional knowledge can enrich the content of the collection.
Collection of works of natural light students applying for going abroad
Application for studying abroad for master's art majors:
Master's courses pay more attention to advanced skills and the transmission of ideas. Professional verticality is very high, so basic ability is a hard core requirement. Postgraduate education will focus on training students to acquire certain research ability and professional skills. The emphasis of different colleges and universities is slightly different. Some professional skills are secondary, and more important is research ability. Some pay more attention to professional skills, so that students can learn to make money with art. Mastering this ability will not only help them to enter the industry after graduation, but also benefit them in their future life development.
What distinguishes graduate students from undergraduate students is the ability to obtain innovation, logical thinking, speech, search, organize materials, summarize and propose ideas. During the postgraduate period, students need to read a lot of literature, communicate and work with supervisors and many people. This process has less opportunities in the undergraduate stage.
0. Application for studying abroad in art majors (undergraduate non art fields):
Different from undergraduate, 0 basic to professional application for master, in the basic ability part, there is no room for manoeuvre, must be excellent, must be strong. The basic ability is poor, and it is difficult to get a good offer for a master's degree, because your competitors have four years more learning time than you, and you need to make up for what you have learned in four years in one to two years, so it is still difficult.
No matter whether the time is sufficient or not, the basic ability must meet the requirements. If the time is tight, it is better to consider delaying the preparation for more than one year, and then in this time, you need to learn the basic knowledge, and also need to carefully read the requirements of the collection of works of various colleges and universities, and optimize your own collection of works according to these requirements.
Application for studying abroad for art majors:
While improving the ability of the applied major, you can try interdisciplinary thinking, that is, use your existing professional skills to show the content of the original major, and do interdisciplinary diffusion with the applied major as the core.
For example, Liu, a former student of Natural Light, majored in aesthetics in his undergraduate degree, applied for a master's degree in visual communication in the UK and was later admitted by RCA, LCC and Edinburgh at the same time!
Since her undergraduate major is aesthetics, which is a relatively academic discipline, in the collection of works applying for graphic design, she will think about the nature of design? How to make design a design? What is the inevitable relationship among society, culture and design? Does the design we are talking about really exist? And so on, so her works focus on thinking about society, culture and design. She carried out research from multiple perspectives, explored through various experiments, and presented her ideas and results in the form of "vision", which benefited from her undergraduate study. The integration of disciplines also became the advantage of Liu compared with other students.
Application for studying abroad in the same art major:
Since the application for the same major is based, the quality of the portfolio must be guaranteed. It is better to put 100% of the professional course projects, and pay more attention to the topic selection on the premise that the professional skills are reflected.
Undergraduate students usually put interest first in selecting topics, but graduate students should pay attention to social, experimental and conceptual topics when selecting topics, because since you have the foundation of the same major as undergraduate students, your sense of enrollment will definitely assume that you have learned basic abilities in four years and established perfect artistic thinking. If you can only present basic abilities at this time, It will certainly be considered as not good enough. In fact, schools at this time need to see some fresh elements injected into your work collection to see your thoughts and ideas.
Collection of works of natural light students applying for going abroad
Application for studying abroad for art majors with master's degree:
Prepare for PhD application/pre Ph. D
In fact, there are many cases of having a master's degree and going to the second round of master's degree. Some students want to apply for a doctor, but we all know the difficulty of applying for a doctor. Because colleges and universities have high requirements for professors who can lead to doctors, the number of teachers is limited. In addition, the academic nature of doctors is strong, and the requirements for students are very high, not only basic ability, but also thinking ability, Logical thinking ability even requires students to have certain social practice experience and have made some achievements in the professional field.
Then for those students who have some difficulty in going straight to the doctor, they can use the second brush master's degree as a springboard to improve their background. There are also two situations for the second master's degree. One is to apply for a doctorate in the same field across disciplines; One is to improve the background of students applying for doctorates.
In any case, these students all want to study a certain subject, and hope to be high, precise and top in a subject. In the application, the recruiter's subconscious requirements for students with master's degrees must be high, so in the application, you can highlight your own practical experience or the help of practical experience in other fields to the application discipline.
Simply apply for a second master's degree
As we all know, the highest degree in many arts in Europe and the United States is the master's degree, and there is no doctoral degree program. Some students are not satisfied with their master's degree institutions, or want to get a degree in other majors, they will choose a second master's degree. Or some students find that what they learned during their master's degree is not enough for her to engage in later work after graduation, and the work they want to engage in also needs skills in other fields, so they need to apply for a master's degree again.
Because the study at the master's stage is relatively vertical and professional, many students will learn a second master's degree to broaden their employment. Taking fashion majors as an example, some students first master in fashion design, but after starting work, they may be engaged in the work of fashion buyers. If they find that they know little about fashion marketing, they may apply for a fashion management major again.
This kind of students have had the experience of applying for and creating a work collection, as well as some educational background. The precautions in the application are similar to those in the above situations, that is, they try their best to create a perfect work collection and express their personal voice.
The above is the application outline of students who apply for studying abroad for arts majors with different backgrounds. Did you mention your situation? If your situation is more special and your problems are more difficult, what are you waiting for! Come and find natural light!
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