Tone Deft wrote:I've been tempted but at least half the class would be shit I have down pat.
It's interesting you say that. I've been 4 classes away from finishing my graphic design degree for the last 2 years, and we are talking about a 2 year degree here! I simply can not stomach the "advanced" "design" classes. It's all application driven - here is how you do such and such in photoshop, here is how you do so and so in illustrator... nothing I don;t already know or can't learn with a book on my own.
Umm.... what about thinking? What about concepting? What about ideas? This is where most people in my field really need training.
Anyone can learn how to use the applications... I decided to hell with those classes and to hell with graduating. I'm taking art classes instead, art history, art appreciation, drawing, painting, print making, and whatever else I'm interested in learning about that semester.
But that's just me, I already have a solid job in my field and make ok money. I also get paid by the school, my wife and I both, 4K a year to work for a local non-profit and as long as we are students there we get an extra 8 grand a year added to our income, since we both go to school part time the money pay's for our classes with roughly 6 grand left over. simply to do design work and help out at and occasionally play shows for them.
So I could care less about the classes I'm supposed to be taking for that degree because quite frankly I kind of feel they are pretty much bullshit for the most part. I feel the classes I am taking instead are helping me much more. I'll probably take every arts class they have to offer before I consider finishing those last design classes.... then I'll go on to art school.
But yeah, that may have seemed OT cuz it's a different field I'm talking about, but it's kind of the same concept. I say take the class if you feel it is going to help you, it either will help or you will find that, like TD said, it is just telling you stuff you already know but could have learned on your own. After that you might be able to find what you do and don;t want out of the classes you take in the future.