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im on pace to graduate by 2014!
Going into my senior year, and have some of my schedule finalized, but I want some advice on some classes that I'm thinking about taking. I plan on staying a year and taking classes at the local junior college, then moving to San Angelo or Austin and finish college there. I'm planning on majoring in journalism and doing some broadcasting as well. Here's what I got so far:
1. English Lang AP
2. Statistics AP (taking it for the sake of not forgetting math)
3. Journalism
4. KABB (Broadcast Journalism)
5. Gov./Eco. AP (required to take it)
Speech DC (taking it over summer)
I can only take one or maybe two more. My counselor doesn't really help me that much, she usually stalls and just waits for me to decide on my own, even though I don't have full knowledge of the classes. And I'm wondering about these classes, here's a description of them. Hopefully you guys can make more sense of them to me:
Introduction to Media Technology: This technical laboratory course provides and understanding of the various careers in media technology fields. Students are introduced to media technology, commercial photography, advertising design, and computer generated graphics.
Media Technology 1: Instruction is designed to provide job-specific training for entry-level employment in movie, video, and television production careers. First-year instruction includes operation of different types of cameras, master of audio techniques, electronic editing, and creation of media graphics. Lighting, script writing, direction, production, special effects, signal control and monitoring equipment, and set design.
Web Mastery: Student will learn Web Page Programming in the following topics; Methodology, HTML Language, XML Language Basics, XHTML Language, Java Script Language basics.
Video Technology: This course will provide students the opportunity to learn techniques in producing a television program, principles of broadcasting along with the legal and ethical responsibilities of the field.
im on pace to graduate by 2014!
Video Technology: This course will provide students the opportunity to learn techniques in producing a television program, principles of broadcasting along with the legal and ethical responsibilities of the field.
this one sounds the best for you
I wouldn't do Web Mastery unless you want to learn specifically about how to make websites using HTML code. I signed up for it junior year and my counselor led me to think it was something that it wasn't. I was very interested in journalism just like you (editor in chief of our paper, spent 4 or 5 class periods in jouralism related stuff senior year) and in my experience it did not help me one bit with journalism.
I would do Video Technology or Introduction to Media Technology, solely based on the descriptions you gave.
video technology is good, in the adult industry they are always looking for cameramans....
leave it to tdmvpdpoy to turn every thread into...
I like that you have a plan...I bet 90% of your peers haven't thought much past school getting out in a couple of days. Take the video tech class and try to do another AP course so you can deep-six some other bull college prerequisite for free before you dish out coin.
With that much AP coursework, you seem like a bright young dude. Maybe you should go bend the ear of a counselor at your juco and see what the best plan is, and what exactly will transfer as collegiate hours to that school.
I know you want to look at technical courses, but it seems you already have a good amount of those... broadcast journalism, journalism, speech...
Maybe you should pick a humanities course? They're usually slightly easier, and they can help complement a great number of career fields. Philosophy, critical thinking, art/music appreciation and foreign languages are all decent choices.
Web Mastering...even in 2001 (or '02?) was the biggest waste of time in my life. I already knew everything. And aside from the eye candy (I was one of two girls in the class) it was the biggest waste of time ever.
Take that lab class if you are for sure wanting to major in some media or Communications class. Or take a language or another AP class that you know you can ace or get a 3 on the AP test (that you haven't mentioned yet). Even though I only had two AP classes that transferred to college the Spanish AP class that I took allowed me to pay for 12 hours of Spanish. AP classes are amazing. Stats is a good move too.
san angelo? are you serious?
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Depending on your knowledge of the Web, I would definitely plan to take some programming courses either now or in college. It's easier to teach journalism to programmers than the other way around.
If you can make stuff work and help people/provide service/explain large amounts of info, that's key, especially now with the sheer amount of online media.
What I would also do if your counselor is of no assistance is to speak with your journalism adviser and have him/her put you in touch with recent graduates. If any can't help you, there is a great resource locally in the journalism program at SAC. Irene Abrego, Marianne Odom, Edmund Lo are just a few people there who can really help you out. , if I could do it all over again, I'd have gone there my first two years of school and gone through their J-program before moving on to SWT/Texas State.
If you have the basic tenets of journalism down, I would make sure to at least get yourself comfortable with photography/videography/media law/semantic web/social media/blogging so you're well-rounded for a good J-program. Plus, it's great that you're working in a station so soon. You'll know once it's over if it's still what you want to do.
When you get to college, you should already be looking at internships and freelancing as well as trying to work for your campus media.
There are some great free resources online to keep your mind sharp with learning, so keep an eye out for those.
Good luck.
He could really throw his life away and attend UTSA.
None of those courses you're considering were even a concept when I was in high school.
What ever happened to Old School School?
Here are some real courses you should be thinking about:
1. Typing: seriously, it's still the most useful skill I ever learned in HS. I can touch-type like a demon.
2. French: worthless language for me (one trip to Montreal the rest of my life), but that's where the babes were.
3. Shop: because having all ten fingers is overrated.
4. Math Team: Laugh all you want, but for four months straight, I never went to school on Friday (travel day for compe ions).
5. Key Club: Okay, not really a class. But still a chance to get out of school on a regular basis on "official business". At the time, Key Club was for guys only. Chicks had to be in the Keyettes, except at Churchill, where they were called, I kid you not, "Keyholes". I caught a raft of from my English teacher for telling her that.
Already have taken two classes of typing.
None of those courses you're considering were even a concept when I was in high school.
What ever happened to Old School School?
Here are some real courses you should be thinking about:
1. Typing: seriously, it's still the most useful skill I ever learned in HS. I can touch-type like a demon.
Took spanish.
I was on it too, but we never left during school, it was always first thing right after school on Fridays.
But honestly, I have no clue what a Key Club is.
Face it Shoog Baby, we are fossils! Even so, I wouldn't go back to being a teen today for any amount of money.
None of those courses you're considering were even a concept when I was in high school.
What ever happened to Old School School?
Here are some real courses you should be thinking about:
1. Typing: seriously, it's still the most useful skill I ever learned in HS. I can touch-type like a demon.
2. French: worthless language for me (one trip to Montreal the rest of my life), but that's where the babes were.
3. Shop: because having all ten fingers is overrated.
4. Math Team: Laugh all you want, but for four months straight, I never went to school on Friday (travel day for compe ions).
5. Key Club: Okay, not really a class. But still a chance to get out of school on a regular basis on "official business". At the time, Key Club was for guys only. Chicks had to be in the Keyettes, except at Churchill, where they were called, I kid you not, "Keyholes". I caught a raft of from my English teacher for telling her that.
Well to help with your situation..... Its unfortunate that your counselor is not much help but try to do as much research as possible on which schools offer journalism and look towards trying to obtain a full ride scholarship... I know you have a full load is on your plate and more work is probably the last thing you want but thats what its going to take to get one of those scholarships. If a scholarship does not work out, then meet with one of the ACCD counselors and they can get you with a degree plan in the degree you are pursuing.... I would suggest taking just the basics at a ACCD school as it is much cheaper then a university and make sure they transfer to the university. But after your first year, if your GPA is high enough you may qualify for other scholarships within the school of choice. Good Luck on your endeavors. You are headed in the right direction.
Gold, especially the 3rd one.
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