Heh. This is good advice, except you basically told me to do all three-- have a "real job", another job, and learn a language. And I gotta apply to most programs by December. I'm still not sure whether I can do -any- of these things, and I'm trying to get a feel for which one I should throw myself into (right AFTER I finish my thesis).
Do you have a sense of which of these things should be prioritized, maybe?
although to answer your questions, i did have a pretty culturally-focused course of study. still, my thesis is about Banksy and graffiti culture, and the head of the archaeology program is on my thesis committee. i -am- hoping i can sell myself to the art-and-archaeology programs this way. but they do want me to know French and/or (or just "and") German, it seems, which is funny because generally I want to study the art of the ancient world -- either the Classical world, and how do those languages help me do that? -- of pre-columbian, for which Spanish, which I at least sort of know, would certainly be useful.
i -am- hoping i can sell myself to the art-and-archaeology programs this way. but they do want me to know French and/or (or just "and") German, it seems, which is funny because generally I want to study the art of the ancient world -- either the Classical world, and how do those languages help me do that?
Actually, a LOT of scholarship on the classical world is in German. Most Classics grad programmes, for instance, require that you know German and French or Italian, so that you have enough access to secondary sources.
Also, just my two cents, but I think your priority is to nail down what you want to do. Between the post and the comments, you've named a lot of different things... art history, cultural anthropology, Classical art, pre-Columbian art, ... all of which are divergent fields and require extremely different preparation.
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This is good advice, except you basically told me to do all three-- have a "real job", another job, and learn a language. And I gotta apply to most programs by December. I'm still not sure whether I can do -any- of these things, and I'm trying to get a feel for which one I should throw myself into (right AFTER I finish my thesis).
Do you have a sense of which of these things should be prioritized, maybe?
although to answer your questions, i did have a pretty culturally-focused course of study. still, my thesis is about Banksy and graffiti culture, and the head of the archaeology program is on my thesis committee. i -am- hoping i can sell myself to the art-and-archaeology programs this way. but they do want me to know French and/or (or just "and") German, it seems, which is funny because generally I want to study the art of the ancient world -- either the Classical world, and how do those languages help me do that? -- of pre-columbian, for which Spanish, which I at least sort of know, would certainly be useful.
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Actually, a LOT of scholarship on the classical world is in German. Most Classics grad programmes, for instance, require that you know German and French or Italian, so that you have enough access to secondary sources.
Also, just my two cents, but I think your priority is to nail down what you want to do. Between the post and the comments, you've named a lot of different things... art history, cultural anthropology, Classical art, pre-Columbian art, ... all of which are divergent fields and require extremely different preparation.
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