The Charles Sturt University School of Visual and Performing Arts, one of seven Schools within the CSU Faculty of Arts, fosters an environment of innovation, creativity and critical thinking in teaching, research and professional practice so as to enhance society and culture.
To achieve this mission, the School continually review course offerings to assure the currency of the content and to afford students the opportunity to achieve their professional career pathways; ensuring graduates possess the necessary understanding to undertake and participate in the process of continuous learning.
Postgraduate courses are offered both on campus and by distance education at Masters and Doctoral levels by Coursework and Research.
The area of CSU's Wagga Wagga campus that is home to the Performing Arts courses is affectionately referred to by students as 'TV Land'.
Famous quotes containing the words performing arts, charles, university, school, visual, performing and/or arts:
“More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.”
—Uta Hagen (b. 1919)
“As I was going by Charing Cross,
I saw a black man upon a black horse;
They told me it was King Charles the First—”
—Unknown. As I was going by Charing Cross (l. 1–3)
“Fowls in the frith,
Fishes in the flood,
And I must wax wod:
Much sorrow I walk with
For best of bone and blood.”
—Unknown. Fowls in the Frith. . .
Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxford University Press.
“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.”
—Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980)
“More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.”
—Uta Hagen (b. 1919)
“I too have arts and sorceries;
Illusion dwells forever with the wave.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)