UT Austin or Hampshire College film major need help!!!!

[mofei4yaoyao]

<p>UT Austin or Hampshire College film major need help!!!
Anyone who is familiar with Hampshire College please help! </p>

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[paying3tuitions]

<p>Hampshire was founded in the l960’s for the purpose of taking advantage of the other 4 colleges in the Five College Consortium. People who attend are those who can start a project and take it wherever it needs to go, use resources from many insitutions, seek things out and make it happen. </p>

<p>The campus is rural, with a free shuttle bus that connects it with the other 4 colleges and runs frequently all day and evening. Look all that up on the website of the Five College Consortium to get a better idea of the details.</p>

<p>There are also courses right on the Hampshire College campus, but you wouldn’t just stay there; yoiu’d cross-enroll a lot, too. So check out course catalogues of the other colleges to see what’s available to you. Students mingle a lot for activities, too. Hampshire has its own black box theater, for example, which students use AND they go work upon theater productions on the other campuses, too.</p>

<p>Amherst is a really nice college town. It’s 3 miles from Hampshire campus, I recall. There are 2 quirky-nice places right alongside the Hampshire campus itself: the Yiddish Book Center and the Eric Carle Children’s Literature Museum. There are events specific to those places that are rather fun, but much more out among the 5 College Consortium, in terms of courses, activities and events open to all.</p>

<p>The other 4 colleges are 3 private colleges under 3,000 each (Amherst College, Smith College, Mt. Holyoke) and 1 very large (and only) public University of Massachusetts Massachusetts (around 30,000). Of those the 3 that are in the Town of Amherst are: Hampshire College (3 miles from Main St.), UMass (1 mile from Main St.), and Amherst College (1/4 mile from Main St.). So if you get out there and interact, you have as many students as in a major university, but your little pod of Hampshire College has its own identity. </p>

<p>Hampshire College favors students who are creative, iconoclastic, nonconformist. They build towards a huge senior capstone project that is like each student’s own baby, it’s that important to them. </p>

<p>In film, their most illustrious graduate is Ken Burns, who did all the documentaries on the Civil War, NYC, Baseball seen in series on HBO in recent years. He must have graduated 25 years ago; who knows if there even was a film department back then. BUt it’s the kind of place where he could put his own program together and do that. </p>

<p>A decade ago, I believe, Hampshire made some changes to insist upon some distribution courses because too many students were taking only courses in what they liked. They tightened it up a bit.</p>

<p>That tells you something about Hampshrie College in general; I don’t have inside info on the film program at all. And I don’t know anything about UT Austin.</p>

[shakespearefan]

<p>I believe Ken Burns attended Hampshire for a time but didn’t actually graduate from there.</p>

[shakespearefan]

<p>Nope – I’m wrong. It appears Ken Burns DID graduate from Hampshire. My apologies, Ken!</p>

[Ya_Ya]

<p>UT Austin is one of the top film programs in the country.Texas is # 4 film market in USA.
UT was mentioned here many times, you can make search by words UT Austin RTF.</p>

<p>Just an example

At UT: you can make films from day one. And, it is collaborative, and less selective at the upper years. There are Gen ed requirements here, too, and you can do them along side the film in the first year to two years. Again, you can crew for others right away as well. How many you work on in that capacity is up to you. It is a larger program, and being in Austin has a thriving film community, but is not in the heart of the industry. They do provide opportunities to intern in LA- and there is a large network of alumni working in the industry in LA. The first core film courses are taken by everyone, and can be large.

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[shakespearefan]

<p>Remember Hampshire is tiny and UT Austin is HUGE. (This also applies to the corresponding film departments.) Which suits you better? Also, Hampshire has a totally unconventional academic system. You’d do a big senior project. And are you talking about film production or film studies? UT would be better for production, unless you are a selfstarter and want to do lots of stuff on your own or in a small group. The other four schools in the Hampshire consortium offer more film studies type courses, but not production. And how important is climate to you?</p>