Help me to pick a major

Mamelot
Wed, 13 Apr 2016 03:28:21 +0000

@ananoit those are obviously excellent choices for film.

Easy answer first: you definitely should take advantage of the college/university setting and enroll in courses outside the school of film or communication. Usually you can get that additional exposure via fulfillment of the general education requirements.

As for what specifically to major in, you need to check to make sure you don’t have to declare a major right away, then spend part of your first year exploring a bit. You will of course want to fulfill prereqs for these schools so that when you do declare a major you can graduate on time.

Your first step will be to visit each school’s website so that you know more about the offerings in your area of interest (if you haven’t done this already, that is). Look up the curriculum so that you understand what you need to take and when. Some offerings will be for a BFA as opposed to a BA or BS and that’s going to be more work, perhaps extending beyond 4 years so make suer you understand expected time to graduation for your fields of interest.

You probably should schedule a visit to each school very soon so that you can choose one by May 1. Definitely visit the film/television/communications schools and take a tour of the facilities there.

Good luck!