<p>Topic. I see SUNY Purchase has Graphic Design and Acting, but it <em>appears</em> they don’t offer double majors. So I want to know if they do offer double majors, and if anyone else will.</p>
<p>Also, is this a good idea? I’m worried about the availability of work after college for obvious reasons, and I’ve got a lot of experience in Photoshop, so I figured it’d be a good idea.</p>
<p>P.S. sorry if this is rather incoherent.</p>
<p>You can do a double major at SCAD, but don’t confuse Photoshop with “Graphic Design.” Photoshop is a tool - one of many tools used in graphic design - but expertise in the program does not make the user an expert in a visual communications discipline.</p>
<p>Yeah yeah I know, there’s Indesign, AutoCAD, Maya, etc. I’m just saying that I thought it’d be a good idea for work in between acting jobs.</p>
<p>I think what RainingAgain was trying to say was that being an “expert” in this field means learning about visual design in general and not simply being good at a program or so… InDesign, AutoCad, Maya are all just “tools.”</p>
<p>As for whether or not this is a good idea, well if you can handle both who’s to stop you? There’s a lot of competition out there for design jobs but I’ll tell you one thing, I’ve heard lots of working designers say that’s all bs. lol. If you have talent, sooner or later, work will find you and give you a pretty comfty salary. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>The one challange to this double major is they are usually both credit and time intensive. Make sure that you ask in the specific departments at each school whether it is possible/ encouraged to double major.</p>
<p>I suspect a double major would require an additional year or taking summer classes straight through. And it will likely cost additional monies. Although I remember loading up 6 to 8 additional credit hours at one school and I wasn’t charged a dime for the overload. So I got two classes for free I guess, but that was a long time ago.</p>
<p>Here is some work by some SCAD 2007 GD graduates who got together and had a show. The concepts are independent of software. Graphic design is conceptual, not technical. This is my point.</p>
<p><a href=“http://savannahsecession.scad.edu%5B/url%5D”>http://savannahsecession.scad.edu</a></p>