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A high school student that knows -nothing- about post secondary. Basic questions?
Hey SFU,
I've currently just entered my last year of high school and now more and more questions are beginning to arise. I do plan on going to post-secondary, but the problem for me is trying to find what courses to take, where to look , etc.
What im interested in:
Multi media (video editing mainly)
Graphic design (photoshop etc)
General music related (music creation, anything in that broad category)
Pop culture-
internet pop culture -
some general psychology (a sub interest not my top priority)
some buisness stuff (entrepreneurship marketing kinda stuff)
im aware this is a very diverse amount of interests and split it up if you need to. im more interested in multi media/graphic/internet related stuff than anything else.
What im trying to find is courses that support things like this (mainly the first few) and possibly some links to help me look around.
Also, if you think SFU is not the place to be looking for things like this, feel free to reccomend any other place as i have not yet committed to any institution.
Links would probably be the most helpful thing, but any information will help me out.
Please help! The amount of questions i have is killing me.
I've currently just entered my last year of high school and now more and more questions are beginning to arise. I do plan on going to post-secondary, but the problem for me is trying to find what courses to take, where to look , etc.
What im interested in:
Multi media (video editing mainly)
Graphic design (photoshop etc)
General music related (music creation, anything in that broad category)
Pop culture-
internet pop culture -
some general psychology (a sub interest not my top priority)
some buisness stuff (entrepreneurship marketing kinda stuff)
im aware this is a very diverse amount of interests and split it up if you need to. im more interested in multi media/graphic/internet related stuff than anything else.
What im trying to find is courses that support things like this (mainly the first few) and possibly some links to help me look around.
Also, if you think SFU is not the place to be looking for things like this, feel free to reccomend any other place as i have not yet committed to any institution.
Links would probably be the most helpful thing, but any information will help me out.
Please help! The amount of questions i have is killing me.
Comments
Communications can also give you credentials for a job in media, technology, or publishing, but the knowledge you gain is less technical... it's mostly theory and cultural studies.
Another question to throw in:
Is one able to take coarses from both the SIAT and another faculty at the same time? as in a media related course as well as a buisness related course?
or are you restricted to faculties
I wanted to design video games for a living when I was your age. I built all my education plans around that. What happened later is my life took a full 360 on me and I became interested in COMPLETELY different things.
I think that you should pay our campus a visit, sneak into some lectures, hang around with other students (it shouldn't really be that scary because people generally won't even care that you're there). See how you like it here first.
Finally, I'm not saying that you shouldn't pursue your life goals, just keep in mind that there's a chance that you might want to do completely different things once you get into university and start learning more about life.
Best of luck to you buddy and take care out there!
I don't think they have Graphics and Multimedia courses at Burnaby. Unless you major in Computing Science and take upper-level courses cause there are a few graphics and multimedia courses in upper-level.
Seems more like a side-dish though.
Either Surrey or Emily Carr I guess.
Thanks, i definately agree, i plan on keeping my subject area broad becuase i dont want to close any doors. Going onto campus would be a good idea, but im sure you cannot simply just walk in and start creeping around in rooms and such. Where do i go , when do i go, etc? im assuming i needa guest pass or something?
and also another question, is there any pop culture/internet pop culture/psychology based courses that anyone can link? having trouble finding them and there admission requirements.
http://www.sfu.ca/about/maps.html
but the giant lectures just walk in, personally i dont think a lot of the classes are all that interesting, like i dont know anything that would provide any insight on popular culture...maybe communications...maybe
i know someone in SIAT and from what hes learned there ive seen some good things churned out
So you dont think theres much courses on pop culture/internet culture etc?
In big lectures with 100+ students, you won't know anyone and no one will know you unless you personally know them. The instructor doesn't know who's in the class and who's not and they don't care if someone not in the class drops in to listen to the lecture.
Keep in mind though that SFU's School of Communications is predominantly leftist and critical (as opposed to mainstream), so you'll probably feel a bit depressed about pop culture after taking some of these courses.
These courses are so confusing. For example when i look at the SIAT site, it gives information on each coarse ,but i dont understand howthe simple things like timetable (how i fit all these courses into a semester if they all vary) and what i do after i have completed each course, theres only 20 courses say offered by SIAT, and im only interested in maybe half of them. Some of them are 13 week long coarses, does that mean i woudnt even acheive bachelors degree? wheres the option to find the SECOND year version of this course or something? im so confused ://
Besides what blackhat said i'd also say that pay attention to what you'd like to do with your degree and not only about studying what you like. I love history for example, but i wouldnt want to be a teacher or a professor, so it wont work for me, as my options afterwards are very narrow.
The advice i wish someone had told me before i got into university was to be less of a dreamer and to experiment working/volunteering in areas that i had interest.
Co-op after the 1st semester is a good option since it gives you insight into the "real life". If you think that it'll take longer to graduate, just think that better to find out you didnt love something from the beginning that to find out after you graduate that you want something completely different.
Take my example, I was on 4th year of Law school in my country ( there, it's 5 years total not undergrad and graduate like here) and i decided to drop out when i started working for the university's legal department, I saw that it wasn't what i wanted. Some people called me crazy, some people called me brave.
the only sad part of it all is that sfu only accepted 15 credits of the 90 that i had..