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'.
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“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)
“The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I’m tired of playing worn-out depressing ladies in frayed bathrobes. I’m going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices, I’m going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the block.”
—Joanne Woodward (b. 1930)
“For women ... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can’t possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman’s body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.”
—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)
“Bottom. What is Pyramus? A lover or a tyrant?
Quince. A lover that kills himself, most gallant, for love.
Bottom. That will ask some tears in the true performing of it. If I do it, let the audience look to their eyes.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)