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A Good Combination of Art and Languages
Author: Christina Fasching (Red)
Christina Fasching talks about her educational path, which led her from the Ortweinschule in Graz to the Student Welcome Center at the Academy via a foreign language degree and after living abroad for several years.
On my educational path from the very beginning, dedicated teachers played a decisive role – teachers who did creative projects with us in the classroom, organized excursions to exhibitions, and language trips to England, France or Italy.
I passed my first entrance exam, aged 14, at the Ortweinschule in Graz, a technical college (HTL) with different faculties in art and design. I also had to submit a portfolio of artistic work and then take a full-day creative aptitude test at the school with the other applicants.
Because I didn’t pass the artistic entrance exam for the Industrial Design course after my A-levels, I went to Belgium for a year as an au pair to improve my French and to think about what I could do afterwards.
This was followed by translation studies in French and Slovenian, then training to teach German as a foreign language, and several years working in France, Slovenia, and the Czech Republic.
In my current position at the Student Welcome Center, I can put my own experience abroad and my language skills to good use in communicating with prospective students, and I’m happiest when I can resolve students’ concerns and questions.
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