Recommended Schooling for Someone Who Wants to be a Professional Critic — Page 2

Hmm...let's see. I'm an English major, and I write reviews on my blogs. And I've even taken 3 theater classes in college. :P Clearly I'm well on my way to supplanting Brantley.

Ummm - WithOneLook -- what?

You joined TODAY and you're criticizing what exactly....?

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It wasn't that big a deal. Your first comment was completely puzzling, to me at least.

It's a form of the word "sage".

Anyway, I think Horton has an excellent point. As much as I esteem the ideas of some of the posters here, a decision on something like your major or whether or not to go to grad school is too big to be done on the basis of a message board thread. You need to do your own research, too.

Go to a school that offers Speech Communication as a major. Two great schools that are known for their speech programs are Northwestern & Ithaca. But there are plenty of them out there.

Part of Speech Communication is Communication Criticism, which extends to film criticism, theatre criticism, and other forms of media and arts criticism.

For starters, I recommend you pick up a copy of a book called COMMUNICATION CRITICISM: DISCOVERING YOUR CRITICAL POWERS by Dr. Jodi Cohen. It's a great beginner's book on the basics of thorough art critique.

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