School Rant and advise?
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 4:09 pm
Ok so I am currently enrolled in a BS Degree program at UNK I am going for a major in Broadcasting. First snag, they are dropping broadcasting as a major and reducing it to a minor. Adviser tells me it is ok I am locked in cuz I enrolled before the change as long as I don't take more than 5 years to complete my degree, I am just getting back into school after being out for 10 years so I have been easing in and had it planned out to take 6 years because these first two semesters were part time only for me and now this screws up my whole schedule.
Not too big of a deal cuz at least I get to keep taking my major and don't have to change that for now. Picking a minor on the other hand that is turning into the most complicated an confusing task ever put before me.
I know what I want to do but they don't have a program that offers that just bits and pieces here and there spread across 3 programs.
So I have narrowed it down to 3 options, Visual Communication, Multimedia, or Theater.
Multimedia offers two classes I really wanna take, Electronic Cinematography and Multimedia Directed Study (basically a class that works with the theater majors to make a tv show or short movie)
neither class is offered in my major.
Visual Communication offers several classes I would like but no more than 2 can overlap and it just so happens 2 classes do in fact overlap so that puts me right on the edge there so it should be ok problem is it requires several art history classes and I just barely passed my first art history class and it was an intro class. I am not ready to take a more advanced class of something I almost failed. especially when a, my financial aid is dependent on my grades, and b, my GPA requirements to stay in my major are strict.
Theater. Theater offers a lot of cool options that I would love to get in on except I really have no interest in acting, costume design, or theater history but those are all required classes. Still the directing class is one I really want and the chance to participate in actual productions would give me real experience I can use as a filmmaker.
So all I need to do is decide which minor to settle on and figure out if I can still take those other classes I want as electives maybe.
This is the reason why I put off going to school for so long, too many choices it makes my head spin.
6Months ago I was decided on MM then a month ago got to looking at it and changed my mind and switched to VC now I am leaning towards theater.
Need some help or I am gonna, oh can't pull my hair out don't have any of that, then I am gonna have to resort to taking it out on the cat.
Not too big of a deal cuz at least I get to keep taking my major and don't have to change that for now. Picking a minor on the other hand that is turning into the most complicated an confusing task ever put before me.
I know what I want to do but they don't have a program that offers that just bits and pieces here and there spread across 3 programs.
So I have narrowed it down to 3 options, Visual Communication, Multimedia, or Theater.
Multimedia offers two classes I really wanna take, Electronic Cinematography and Multimedia Directed Study (basically a class that works with the theater majors to make a tv show or short movie)
neither class is offered in my major.
Visual Communication offers several classes I would like but no more than 2 can overlap and it just so happens 2 classes do in fact overlap so that puts me right on the edge there so it should be ok problem is it requires several art history classes and I just barely passed my first art history class and it was an intro class. I am not ready to take a more advanced class of something I almost failed. especially when a, my financial aid is dependent on my grades, and b, my GPA requirements to stay in my major are strict.
Theater. Theater offers a lot of cool options that I would love to get in on except I really have no interest in acting, costume design, or theater history but those are all required classes. Still the directing class is one I really want and the chance to participate in actual productions would give me real experience I can use as a filmmaker.
So all I need to do is decide which minor to settle on and figure out if I can still take those other classes I want as electives maybe.
This is the reason why I put off going to school for so long, too many choices it makes my head spin.
6Months ago I was decided on MM then a month ago got to looking at it and changed my mind and switched to VC now I am leaning towards theater.
Need some help or I am gonna, oh can't pull my hair out don't have any of that, then I am gonna have to resort to taking it out on the cat.
