I have come upon a new issue to research.
Lately, in my web browsing, I've noticed that a number of colleges in the area who offer art history or fine art as a major or minor recommend that the students take at least 1 to 2 years of another language. As many of you all know, we do not offer such classes at MICA.
Thus, this might be something for the Student Voice Association to look into this year.
For now, I have emailed Jan Stinchcomb and Megan Miller about the matter. Jan has forwarded to my email to Kerr Houston, the head of the Art History Department, and told me that they have considered these classes before.
I will keep you all updated with my findings!
Meghann Harris
SVAAC President
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We have a partnership between most colleges in Baltimore where you can take courses at other colleges for free.
I imagine that the language courses already offered at other colleges would be pretty good. Even the Basic 100 level courses would be pretty good quality... compared to something MICA would potentially put together (since we are not specifically a Literary Arts college).
I took an Existentialism Philosophy 300 level course at John's Hopkins and MICA gave me credit for it as an Academic Elective. There are two Johns Hopkins students taking the Basic Photo class that I am in right now too. It seems like this partnership is becoming more known, which is wonderful! The only trick is: MICA is a little awkward in that we have one class per week, and other colleges may have their class for 1.5 hours for 2 or 3 times a week. So you'll really have to shop around for courses and colleges that match up with your MICA schedule.
If you don't have a car, the College Town Shuttle is really reliable and stops at nearly every campus: that's how I got to my Johns Hopkins class every Thursday Fall 2007 (on time!!)
www.baltimorecollegetown.org/shuttle/
All you have to do is look at the course listings on that school's website (available classes/open seats specifically for that semester you are interested in), show up at that college's Registrar office to sign up for it and fill out the paper form that is on our 2nd floor of Bunting at our Registrar. With some emailing and the right forms(as long as you sign up for it by our Add/Drop date) you should be fine.
Hope this helps!
so what is the outcome? they considered language requirements but decided it's not necessary? i'd love to know! -epark
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