eishiyaeishiya@mastodon.art
Apr 14, 2026, 7:20 PM@AasaMariaHedberg This sounds a lot like US art schools. They do provide introductory courses in various fields, but you have to demonstrate skill just to be accepted to the school, so they serve mainly to make sure everyone in a field has the same groundwork for year 2+, rather than to teach basic skills from scratch. But where the art school is part of a larger university, the intro-level classes are open to people from other parts of the university, who didn't need a portfolio to get in.
