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Fine & Performing Arts Mission Statement: The Division of Fine & Performing Arts at Paradise Valley Community College provides courses and special events as well as an "artists' community" for students at all levels who are planning avocations and/or vocations in the artistic fields of Creative Writing, Dance, Music, Theatre and Visual Arts. The Division of Fine & Performing Arts values the creative process and the creative product as well the student's individual creative "voice." The Division is devoted to the idea of interdependence of work in the arts with the broader worlds of ideas and action which will, ultimately, lead to a vibrant and responsible culture. Objectives: • to develop a personal sense of aesthetics, including a conscious awareness of discipline specific basics, aesthetic fundamentals, aesthetic application and aesthetic principles •
to develop and
enhance a conscious awareness and respect for others' ways of
thinking, •
to develop and
enhance various artistic methods of problem solving, including diverse
approaches •
to develop and
enhance an awareness of how the arts reflect and reveal cultures • to develop and enhance our students' ability to understand the human experience, both past and present
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