Congrats saralk and methos should be able to get into where you want to go
I've never heard of critical thinking or general studies
We had some compulsory 'Key skills' thing that our college squeezed all into year one, handy as you don't want to be faffing about in year 2 of college. out group was too good for the standard IT course key skill so we got put into our own special key skill whaich was called improving own learning, was great you got to do wahtever you wanted, I chose flash, my first flash was some dodgy frog, then my improvement was a duck picture wobbling about the page then going uber internet animation supreme with drum n bass and sunglasses, loops amazingly well too
Frog animation ->
http://nile.zerogen.net/stuff/frog.swf
Duck animation ->
http://nile.zerogen.net/stuff/duck.swf The duck has sunglasses
must watch