Does anyone know of a college in the northeast U.S. that offers good fine arts and foreign language programs?

Question

I'm hoping to double-major in German language and Illustration or Graphic Design. If possible, I'd also like to continue taking Spanish classes and enroll in a Mandarin Chinese course. If anyone knows of a college or university that offers all or most of these things located somewhere in the northeastern United States, that would be incredible. It would be a huge help to my search.

Answer 1

Here's your obstacle:

Most colleges in the northeast that are notable for their language programs are elite liberal arts colleges that do not offer graphic design or illustration. They do offer studio arts, but graphic design and illustration are more vocational pursuits, found only at community colleges and some large universities.

If graphic design and/or illustration is your focus, rather than studio arts, then you may want to go outside of New England to a large university like Syracuse or Temple. (PA and NY are kind of northeast.)

I'd recommend that you take a good look at Syracuse, as it has a very good Graphic Arts program, located in its very prestigious Newhouse School of Communications. Syracuse also has very strong language programs, including German, Spanish and Chinese, in its college of Arts and Sciences.

Do speak to someone in admissions there, though, to ask about the feasibility of your plan. Scheduling classes in two different colleges (Newhouse and A&S) can sometimes (but not always) be difficult.

(You'd have the same challenge at any university, because students majoring in a department in one college, like Arts and Sciences, usually get scheduling preference in that college, but not in another, like the college of Education, or Fine Art, or Business)

I hope this makes sense to you. If not, ask another question, and I'll clarify! :)

Best wishes to you!

Answer 2

Middlebury's first-class area of expertise and their status are the summer time immersion application. NOT such a lot the consistent undergrad application. You can get well international language in many faculties.

Answer 3

I know URI http://www.uri.edu/ has a strong German department (especially their German School in the summer). However if its Chinese you want to study - you probably would be better off with NYU http://www.nyu.edu/

Good Luck!!!

Answer 4

Middlebury has a great foreign language program.