Certificates are sacred and secure in the hearts of many domestic students. Whether it is graduation certificate, degree certificate or various skill certificates, these certificates, which have been officially stamped, seem to be the best proof of personal experience. The task of textual research has also been accompanied by the learning career of most domestic students. CET 4/6, Computer Certificate I, Teacher's Qualification Certificate, Class II Constructor's Certificate, etc. constitute the necessary graduation materials for many universities, and are also important assessment conditions for the domestic employment market. So, is the authoritative certificate popular in China useful for applying for art study abroad?
Is the certificate useful for applying for art study abroad?
Not only for students, many parents also believe that the mark up with a certificate can undoubtedly greatly improve the success rate of the assessment stage. In our daily consultation work, we are often asked: "Do you need a certificate to study art abroad?" "Do I have a XX certificate to help you apply?" Similar questions. Today, in order to answer your questions, the Teaching and Research Center will, in combination with the assessment requirements of overseas art schools, explain in detail whether to take the certificate or not? How does the certificate actually help us in our application?
What are the certificates related to art design?
Due to the demand of our country for professional talent training and standardization of the employment market, there are many types of certificates that can be selected for examination in daily contact, but in fact, only a small part of them are related to art design, and few of them can meet the assessment requirements of overseas colleges and universities.
Current assessment subjects of qualification certificate of domestic art teachers
Before the specific launch, let's summarize the certificates related to art learning that are highly participated in the market at present, which can be roughly divided into the following categories:
a. General Certificate
Student card, graduation certificate, degree certificate, party member certificate, etc;
b. Academic Certificate
Computer grade certificate, CET-4 and CET-6 certificate, TOEFL/IELTS score certificate, thesis publishing certificate, interpretation qualification certificate, etc;
c. Professional qualification
Teacher qualification certificate, registered architect certificate, garment plate maker certificate, graphic designer certificate, code designer certificate, etc;
d. Professional skills
Class I constructor, Class II constructor, Adobe certified designer, jewelry appraiser, CAD engineer, urban surveying and mapping qualification certificate, etc;
e. Honorary Certificates of Events
Patent certificate, various domestic and foreign art and design competitions, social practice activity certificate, and official academic certificate of the university;
From the above five categories, we can see that most of the assessment criteria and scope of effectiveness of the first three types of certificates (except for the academic and language scores necessary for further education) are targeted at the domestic market. This kind of certificate does not have the corresponding international general evaluation standard, nor does it have enough professional weight, so it is almost useless in the assessment of overseas colleges and universities.
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Comparatively speaking, the professional skill certification and award certificates that can be recognized internationally in the latter two types of certificates can play a role in the application of colleges and universities to a certain extent, but the specific scope of role still needs to be comprehensively considered according to the gold content of the certificate.
How much does the certificate help art students to study abroad?
Undoubtedly, the most important thing that can determine the application result is the quality of the collection of works, followed by standardized scores such as transcripts/GPA and language. The certificate corresponds to some documents and background improvement, which basically plays a supporting role, and naturally has less impact on the application result than the first two.
Natural light Central Saint Martin College of Art Summer camp, official certificate of the institution and recommendation letter of the tutor
Secondly, whether it is foreign universities or domestic and foreign job seeking enterprises, the primary investigation is the applicant's ability and work. If students have plans to work in domestic public institutions after graduation, they may have rigid requirements for some certificates, so they need to prepare in advance; However, the employment opportunities for art and design majors are more private enterprises or companies, so the scope of application of the certificate is not very wide.
At this stage, students' primary task is to apply for studying abroad. Certificates are not necessary proof of personal ability, but collections of works. Therefore, the time and energy we spend in preparation should also be allocated reasonably according to the importance of materials.
If students do not have enough time to apply, they must put their priority on professional learning and creation of portfolio projects. If they especially need some proof of "background improvement", they can choose some academic projects or competitions with certificates.
How to select a helpful certificate?
In fact, studying abroad in the arts is a highly purposeful learning task, which requires students to integrate various advantageous resources and prove their comprehensive ability to the target university through application materials to gain recognition from the university. Therefore, when choosing the certificate type to apply for the exam, students should also take the purpose to check and fill in the gaps or add to the icing on the cake.
For example, at this stage, if we need to supplement our professional ability, we can choose some academic projects that can have substantial output or short-term courses with official certification of colleges and universities; Conversely, if students need to prove their social practice ability or forward-looking thinking on the industry, they can choose some high-level design events or patent certificates/papers to publish
However, excluding personal factors, the order of gold content of certificates is roughly as follows: patent certificate/core journal paper publishing certificate>international competition award certificate>international certification professional skill certificate>university official academic activity certificate>social practice certificate.
Students can choose one or two projects as additional options for background improvement according to their own advantages and opportunities, and comprehensively consider the goals and learning plans at this stage. After all, the value of certificates for application assistance is proportional to the amount of time, energy and professional ability paid. Students should not be penny wise and pound foolish.
Does the "cost-effective" certificate exist?
According to our previous argument, there are two prerequisites for the selection of certificates. The first is to consider after the collection of works and standardized scores. The second is that certificates with high gold content usually need to spend the same amount of time and energy. So for some students who do not have the preparation time but have a real need to improve their background, what is a cost-effective certificate recommendation?
In fact, there are also some. In natural light Art study institutions We will often encourage students to participate in some international design competitions, or help some students with outstanding personal professional ability to apply for publishing core journals or patent awards with their works. On the premise of ensuring that the main line of learning tasks does not deviate, we will increase personal strength through certificates.
In order to facilitate the achievement of these learning achievements, Natural Light has gathered various advantageous resources in recent years to actively promote close cooperation with international well-known events, well-known enterprises and designers. In recent years, it has also successively participated in a number of events, including: ONE SHOW China Youth Creative Award, Huawei nova Star Short Video Competition, "Xinyun Library" Public Welfare Building Design Competition, and so on.
At the same time, we also strive for different levels of exclusive benefits for students. In each competition, we will have students obtain corresponding award certificates, even including valuable internship certificates and recommendation letters, and these entries can have traces to follow, winning enough voice in the assessment of colleges and student recruiters.
The purpose of preparing these high-level activities and events is not only to improve the students' background in college application, but also to help students access to a broader business market earlier and add luster to their art career in advance through these experiences.
Designed by Luo Xuexue, a student of Natural Light in 2015, has become a designer of One Show China Creative Award
Finally, I hope you can correct your attitude towards "textual research", especially for the art design profession, the value of artists is never proved by "award certificates" or "price tags", because works are our best "speakers", and your professional level, aesthetic quality, and personal style can be conveyed through every detail of works.
This is especially true for art study abroad applications. Textual research itself is a matter with "Chinese characteristics". At present, our country is simplifying the types of certificates every year. Instead of pursuing these illusory "sense of security", we should focus our time and energy on improving our personal ability and the quality of works collection.
Therefore, regardless of the training of students or the assessment of professional teachers, the focus of our work has never been on the superstition of a certain type of certificate or graduation certificate of a famous school, but on the teachers and students as a whole, and the only result orientation is the all-round development of ability, The final result, whether it is an offer or a high gold certificate, is a matter of course.
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