The life of a finearts student at Stella Maris

The curriculum teaches us the very basics of art and provides us with a scope into what taking up such a course will provide us with. Also, they show us the many different ventures you can go into with an art degree they sometimes do guest lectures and demos for practical work and this moreover enhances our college and study life

We get to submit requests as to which companies we are interested in and also what internships we are looking for as we have a career guidance development cell thus far in college we have yet to get any internship in 2nd year offered but we are encouraged by mentors to seek internships

We pay every semester and we have odd and even semesters the 2nd semester usually is a bit more than our first semester and our fee per semester ranges from 18,000 to 19,000 we also have exams fees every semester exam which is paid separately from our semester fee financial aid is offered and you would have to apply for it for the scholarship you can avail scholarship from merit if you score the highest in a subject then they also have scholarships you can apply for in which you will have to submit certain details such as family annual income etc. they also have part-time on campus for students that are struggling for financial support

They have clubs available at our campus as well as many social events that happen on campus. Three clubs I'm part of are the western music club, Debate Club and the Girl Up Cell. Events such as inter-years and departmental events also take place they are usually held at the beginning half of our year in the month of July-August. Our department library has every book you will need for studying art as it's one of the oldest departments at stella alot of knowledge and information is available at our library and studio. They have sports selections for those interested and also have good facilities in the classroom such as a smart board aswell as a microphone system for a better audio and visual aid for the students

I had applied to namely 3 colleges stella Maris, SRM, and Jyothi nivas I had got into all the above listed and was also offered a scholarship for Jyothi nivas but despite that what attracted me towards Stella is their course they have a focus on both practical and theory and also offer painting aswell as design as a specialisation from 3rd year onwards the course is comprehensive and provides us with all the tools that can help us decide what the next step we want to choose is the admission for such a course was different as it requires practical knowledge and skills too we first get a mail for our acceptance along with a scheduled interview day with a batch of students then after the interview they shortlist students and then go ahead with a practical test in which you have to sketch and draw a still life that has been set-up after the test is finished they will post the final list of students on their college site.

The faculty for fine arts is not a very huge faculty however we have a very good department and faculty facilities the staff are always available if needed and we also have a fine arts library for students of our department aswell as a studio we have a friendly relationship with all teachers some teachers not so much it depends very much on your performance and personality in college if your very introverted chances are they won't care as much but if your extroverted they will pay more notice to you it very much depends on your relationship towards the teachers we also have a mentor and mentee compulsory system at our college which we get allocated for and I'm this case we get to form a better bond with our mentors