There are also quite a lot of 5-year Architecture programs. Generally, with these, and somee 4-year programs, you have to complete one year of school outside the program, gen eds, overview courses, and then apply your sophomore year for "admission" into the program. Those without the grades from the first year are not admitted, so that also sort of screens out people shopping for majors. They have the 1st year overview courses to sample, while the faculty can concentrate on the students who have shown they are committed to the program.
For instance, the University of Arkansas Architecture program is a very intense studio experience, where all admitted students get drafting desks and cubes of sorts to build their models etc in one big common area. They put in long hours and work very very hard those 4 years they are in the program, basically living in those cubes, with a tight community of students as well, crits, the works. The program has a really excellent reputation. Chris On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 7:40 PM, dave malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dmitry, a common degree in the US is the 6yr. med program. Many > students enter undergrad "knowing" they want to be doctors. Why not > IxD's? If I can get an MD in 6 yrs (including summers I think), why > not a Masters of IxD in 5 years including some intensive work (or > required internships) during summers? > > BTW, Jeff tells a great story and articulated beautifully the reasons > for foundations in ID and Visual Design. > > BTW, one reason "design school" programs excite me so much that > people hadn't mentioned in the other thread that I thought about b/c > of this thread is the connection to all of the expressionist design > programs in the same school: illustration, fashion, interior, floral, > event, etc.ID, Architecture and IxD have the commonality of having > really conservative clients as a rule. > > BTW, another type of course that no one has mentioned that I've seen > at ID schools are corp projects. You've got 10 weeks to do a > corporate sponsored project. Yea you can fail, unlike a real job, but > when done right students really can learn a lot about the real world > and what clients expects. > > I have so much to add in this thread about curricullum but I'll just > say that no one mentioned two anthro courses (intro to socio-cultural) > and ethnography for anthro design. > > I do think that a degree in ID (like in Syracuse) or IxD should be a > minimum of a 5 yr program. Basically the coursework is the equiv of a > double major. > > As for a masters it should be treated similarly to a masters of ID > where if you weren't a bachelor w/ that degree you need to go 3 > years so that you can do foundations, otherwise 2. Anyone who did not > go through foundations for ID or IxD shouldn't really have a masters > degree, b/c they probably didn't actually achieve a masters of craft > and design thinking that that year of foundations puts you through. > > -- dave > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=30515 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
