@JGoldman10,
Quote:I already got my first degree as an undergraduate, so wouldn't that make me a graduate student? I could take Continuing Education classes at my old school but I wouldn't get a degree.
Aren't returning students graduate students?
Right now, JGoldman10, I am doubting that you ever attended, much less graduated, from a 4 year liberal arts college or university. Your ignorance of the most basic information, and vocabulary, associated with college attendance, has destroyed any credibility you might have had in that regard.
No, just because you hold an undergraduate degree, or are a returning student, does not automatically make you a graduate student. Graduate students are those taking graduate level courses or who have matriculated for a graduate level degree.
I don't suppose you know whether the courses you want to take in illustration/cartooning are graduate or undergraduate courses, do you?
If you have had no prior courses in those areas, you might want to take them at the undergraduate level, but without matriculating for another undergraduate degree--just take the courses you are interested in, if you can do that.
All things being equal, take those courses through the college's Continuing Education program if you can do so. You don't need another degree to work in the field you want to go into, you simply need to learn techniques and methods in illustration/cartooning. It is certainly less expensive to take a course in a Continuing Ed program, but compare the course description in the Continuing Ed program to the course description for the comparable regular undergraduate course in the same area to see whether they are equivalent in content and whether they address the sorts of things you want to learn. If they both appear to cover the same ground, and will both provide you with what you are looking for, then go with the Continuing Ed course, rather than the regular undergraduate course, and save yourself a lot of money.
