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When applying for graduate school, many students choose to change majors every year because they don't like their undergraduate majors.
As a discipline with a relatively low threshold for intermajors, art design has naturally become one of the most popular directions in the application for changing majors.
However, without a foundation, the application for changing majors is not as simple as you think.
If you want to go ashore successfully, how should you plan and efficiently "avoid pits"?
#1
Pick up the time
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Compared with domestic universities, foreign universities generally pay more attention to the coherence of majors, and many majors will even directly indicate in the application requirements: "Application materials without relevant professional background will not be considered";
Therefore, the first thing to do in the interdisciplinary application must be to set aside more time than the direct promotion of the major, and screen out those projects that do not accept interdisciplinary applications at all, so as to avoid wasting more time in the later stage.
In addition to constantly refining the essay and improving the background, the most important thing is to have time to prepare the portfolio that is essential for art design.
You should know that even if you apply for this major, it often takes about 3-6 months to make and optimize your portfolio;
For students who have no foundation, change majors, and are making a portfolio for the first time, the preparation time should be at least doubled (this is only the time spent on the portfolio).
Therefore, although the threshold for changing majors in art design is lower than that of medicine and finance, it is by no means an overnight achievement;
Moreover, no matter how early you start to prepare, the situation of "not having enough time" is still very common for students who are working on portfolios across majors, and there may not be time for you to do every project to the fullest.
What's more, admissions officers only have a short time to browse through each portfolio, so when applying, you need to put eye-catching and interesting works at the top of the portfolio, and get the admissions officer's approval by showing the inspiration of the project, material innovation, design methods, etc.
Generally speaking, being able to apply for 3 offers across majors is "difficult for many people";
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#2
Choose the right track
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First of all, we need to emphasize that not every art and design major is suitable for interdisciplinary applications.
Occasionally, some students or parents will express that they want to "apply for landscape design from scratch" and "apply for interdisciplinary application for computer interaction (HCI)" during consultation.
This is clearly an unrealistic leap.
Generally speaking, for interdisciplinary applications (especially from fields other than art and design), the most suitable majors are generally emerging majors, compound majors, or other directions related to existing subject knowledge.
Majors such as landscape and HCI require a lot of basic knowledge, and design thinking alone is far from enough, so it is difficult to cross disciplines.
Most of the applications for such majors do not pay attention to the student's previous professional background, but more to explore the student's creative potential through a portfolio or essay.
In the category of "emerging majors and compound majors", the first thing to recommend is stage design (also known as theater design).
As a kind of secondary creation, stage design is to design the scene by analyzing the script and characters;
In this process, designers need to communicate with staff including sets, screenwriters, costumes, lighting, sound effects, etc., and adjust the overall tone of the stage according to the specific situation, involving many aspects;
The examiners of this major are very appreciative of talents who can have both spatial three-dimensional thinking, artistic expression, and stage expression at the same time, and provide new ideas for stage design.
Among the students majoring in stage design, it is not uncommon for students with backgrounds in architectural design, interior design, computer, digital media, clothing, and graphics.
In addition to stage design, as a cross-border product of the three disciplines of "graphic/fashion/materials science", textile design is also a major that must be mentioned and suitable for interdisciplinary applications.
The object of textile professional design is not limited to clothing fabrics, it can be curtains, bed sheets, and even your wallpaper in your room, car interiors, medical supplies and other materials in different fields.
Therefore, it is very suitable for students with no foundation to apply for cross-majors.
Textile design not only exists at the undergraduate and master's levels, but also in the six major subjects of A-level art design.
Correspondingly, in the A-level examination, there will also be textile design works.
Due to its strong cross-border nature, textile design is not only suitable for interdisciplinary applications, but also textile works can be applied for other majors through simple transformation.
So how should we make clever use of the existing works and successfully land them in the process of interdisciplinary application?
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#3
Match the right institution
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In addition to the time of material preparation and the choice of major, the requirements of different institutions for the applicant's professional background may also become one of the key factors affecting the interdisciplinary application.
For example, we often mention that famous schools such as Huangyi, Lunyi, and Edinburgh, even if you make adequate preparations in advance, it is still very difficult to go ashore across majors.
Therefore, students who apply across majors should not "hang themselves from a tree" and stumble on a certain university, but should "watch and listen to all directions", find more "flat colleges", and get an offer first.
For example, the University of Creative Arts (UCA), which is ranked No. 1 in the UK for creative industries and the top 200 in the QS world rankings, will be relatively open to interdisciplinary applications, and even encouraged.
As a school focusing on art and design, the University of Creative Arts offers a wide range of majors, and is currently one of the largest and most comprehensive art schools in Europe:
Animation, Architecture, Illustration, Graphics, Film, Fine Arts, Games, Interiors, Graphics, Photography, Industrial/Product...... All-inclusive.
The curriculum is broad enough to enable UCA to accommodate zero-based applicants from a wide range of majors; At the same time, UCA is also one of the few art schools in the UK with a strong business atmosphere, focusing on the combination of art and business.
Therefore, although UCA has a certain gap with global famous universities such as Huangyi and Lunyi in various academic rankings, its reputation is not comparable with these popular universities;
However, in terms of employment rate, UCA has won the first place in the UK in the creative industry with a super high rate of 96.9%, which is a super cost-effective institution.
In addition, due to its location in the South East of England, UCA students can easily travel to London and other towns and cities, and UCA students can easily go to more businesses or institutions for practical learning.
As a result, UCA is now ranked No. 1 among the UK's top art and design universities for courses and quality, and the No. 2 university in Europe for professional art education.
The University of the Creative Arts has four campuses, including Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham and Rochester, each of which offers a very good learning and living environment.
International students from 91 countries and regions around the world, accounting for 17.2% of the university's student population, UCA also provides convenient transportation and accommodation for international students studying here.
This year, UCA also opened a new business school for the creative arts, with a total of 10 undergraduate and postgraduate programs to choose from.
The College of Creative Arts' undergraduate and graduate-level programs combine creative development with the development of business skills to develop graduates' creative thinking and problem-solving skills.
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