Mandatory College Courses and Prerequisites Very Troubling

We have a huge problem in our local community colleges, especially when it comes to graduating high school seniors that have taken honors or advanced placement courses in HS and then they go into college. They've worked very hard and struggled through the advanced placement courses while in HS, but then they are still forced to take prerequisite classes in college. It turns out that many of these prerequisite classes are nothing more than review for them.

This causes several problems. First, the college student who wants to really learn, gets bored, loses interest in school and gets quite frustrated. Especially considering that they want to get into a four year school they have to take the other classes, but before they take the other classes they must complete prerequisites which are copy classes from what they had in high school.

The colleges say; "We have to make sure the students know this material otherwise they will fail the upper classes." Whereas, this may be true, it negates the entire purpose of having advanced placement courses in HS. Students that work hard in high school should get a leg up on the world not be penalized for their academic sacrifices.

Next, another problem that occurs is that many of the former Advance Placement students in the prerequisite classes, hurt the grading-curve for the other kids who are just now being introduced to this material. This makes it harder for the other students that did not take advanced placement trying to complete the prerequisites.

In fact, it turns out to be unfair to everyone involved, all the students that is. The community college of course, doesn't see a problem because they have filled up all their classrooms and created more revenue in fees. I am very troubled by all this, how about you?

My basic arguments are as follows;

• Wastes time


• Costs the students money


• Delays students from working


• Unfair Advantage to some students


• Makes College completely boring and uneventful

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Ken Amos Art-Graphic Design Delta State University Greenville, Mississippi



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Why Are Paintings So Expensive?

When priceless pieces of art get stolen from the big galleries in the major cultural centers of the world, people go crazy, the media has a field day and prophets proclaim the ending of the world, the four horsemen returning and Tom eating Jerry. But when they make the announcement on the news, they have a digitally rendered billion trillion pixel, perfect copy of the original sat behind them. Why are the originals so valuable when everyone and their dog can have the same picture printed off and wallpapered in their downstairs loo?

Photography

Maybe before the invention of the camera and the printing press, you could justify that a painting was something valuable, as there would be no other way of recording that priceless moment when an orange sat in the same bowl as an apple and a banana. But with a photograph you can take a picture of a painting or the scene itself, capturing its every minute detail. Surely this should take some value from the original rendering.

Replicas

Criminals being criminals, they have delved into the art world with reckless abandon and brought with them, art students, jealous wannabe masters and copycats alike. Their skills can be used to copy, stroke for stroke, old and new paintings so that their version has every single quality that an original has. Surely if you had no way of telling that this was in fact not the original, then what happens to its value? It should go down right?

Volume

Art is big business. There are millions and millions of paintings out there. A hundred thousand million bowls of fruit, a trillion half naked women, a great many old men on horses and a rather large amount of blue squares next to red triangles. With new artists streaming out of art colleges daily all with their own thing to add to the art melting pot, why do some paintings demand million pound price tags, while they budding artists who can barely afford drawing inks can't paste their pictures on a bus stop without the council power washing it off. Sheer volume of art should surely drag the price of art down. It's basic economics. Why, why, why?

Sheer exclusivity is the answer. Owning the original version of a painting by a grand old master like 'Renoir' or 'Monet' is like having the only copy of a section of his soul. The fact that a painting is so well known and copied endlessly just adds to the individuality of having the original. This is why, when an artist dies, their work is suddenly worth so much more: because they can't make anymore originals. Art will always be expensive because it is such a personal, emotional thing, and especially if it is by someone famous.

David Somberville recons Van Gogh's field easel was no better than his, but it takes more than the best drawing inks to make a name for yourself.

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Graphic Design in New York City Slated to Get Boost With College Graduates

New York City is a hub for all things related to technology; this of course isn't limited to motion graphic studios, animation houses, 3D rendering farms, and graphic design firms. With NYC housing three of the top art and design colleges in America: SVA (School of Visual Arts), Parsons the New school for Design, and Cooper Union - The Advancement of Science and Art. Each of these educational institutions is renowned for spitting out some of the greatest ethical designers in the world. These young designers normally leave New York City at the drop of a hate for places such as Shanghai, Berlin, Torino, and London; places known to have vast and considerably less competitive opportunities for young, emerging designers. However, more and more these young designers are choosing to stay in the tri-state area to make their mark on the design world. But why?

I have heard established print designers from Parsons, say that the reason behind this phenomenon is because graphic design in New York City, and design all over America has become stagnant. Large graphic design institutions which have established themselves as design trendsetters have moved design in the wrong direction he says; that design itself hasn't been allowed to move in the right direction due to a lack of creative routes for people to explore. These hip, young designers tend to group together and form small design start up companies. One famous one: "Iminlikewithyou" also came about by a few of these students from design schools. The social networking website turned out to be one of the best niche examples of web 2.0 advertising strategy.

As outsourcing design work becomes more and more prominent in America, many young designers with sentiments towards their own country refuse to travel elsewhere to work; instead their choosing to remain in America to work and bolster the economy without reducing themselves to outsourced work to places such as India, China, and Russia. Another seductive reason for young designers to remain in America is government incentive. There are plenty of government grants offered to startup companies who don't outsource their work. For all of these reasons together, graphic design in New York City is looking more and more profitable, reasonable, and logical.

Fred McCoy is a New York Web Design critic who works for Blue Fountain Media; his articles are on point, descriptive, and insightful.

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