<p>I will have some free electives come next year, to take basically whatever I want. I was thinking of taking Spanish and learning that in that time, but I figure I could learn Spanish after college, using Rosetta Stone, some books off Amazon. There's plenty of Spanish media, websites, and friends I would have to actually speak it with to actually improve at that.</p>
<p>So I was thinking about taking some art classes, probably some painting classes.</p>
<p>I really have no real art experience. We had an art class in K-8, but that was really just a mess around class. Took a art medals class in high school and got an A in that. But don't really have any skill in art, and never really did. I was thinking of taking the set of painting classes (I think there are three like beginner/intermediate ones to work through).</p>
<p>Never really had skill in painting or drawing type stuff back in the day. But I also didn't take my art class with any seriousness back then. I am a lot more mature than I was in eighth grade. </p>
<p>So with college art classes, it says beginner? Can a true beginner, with no real experience, who has a proven history of being a crappy artist, go in and succeed in a college art class, as long as they listen to the instructors and put in the work?</p>
<p>I basically just asked this same question in the art sub-forum. Mind if I hang around and see if someone answers in this forum? I would also like to not the answer to this question. =P</p>
<p>I’m sure if the class is for beginners people won’t generally have much prior experience. I mean you’re not expected to be an economics expert in intro to econ. I’m sure if you put in effort and do your work you’ll do great, and I definitely recommend taking the class because art is so rewarding. And you can’t be too hard on yourself for not being Degas yet, you’re still inexperienced- and will improve if you stick with it. Good luck :)</p>
It most likely won’t happen. While you may have every intention of doing so, once you actually graduate and start working and have to deal with various other responsibilities this plan will likely get brushed aside. Many, many people have graduated from college and intended to go back for a MS, study some subject, or whatever and it frequently doesn’t happen. Just be aware of this when it comes to course selection if you really want to learn Spanish.</p>
<p>Even the foundation year art classes at an art school are designed to cope with kids who have not had any experience in some forms of art. After all, a kid might go to art school with the idea of being a photographer (and therefore have all their experience with that) but they are still expected to take beginning drawing, painting, etc.)</p>
<p>So…I would think that the beginning classes at a regular university would work the same. That they are designed for just that…a beginner.</p>