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Overview

This course incorporates all Visual, Language and Performance Arts and provides opportunities to work across traditionally separate disciplines and integrate art forms. Students are allowed to choose from various artforms including, Art and Design, Music, Drama, Dance and Creative Writing.

The course provides a sound basis to progress either directly to employment or to proceed to study for an Advanced qualification.

Specification aims

The aims of this specification are to:

• Stimulate, encourage and sustain students' confidence, and foster curiosity, ingenuity and imagination in the shaping of ideas, experience and feelings, by providing opportunities for active participation in the Arts.
• Foster the acquisition of knowledge and understanding of the ways in which artforms may connect with and enhance other artforms.
• Provide opportunities for communication of ideas and for a sensitive and perceptive response in the 'language' of artforms.
• Provide direct experience of creative processes, and to encourage awareness of the Arts in historic, social and cultural contexts and the development of skills and techniques appropriate to various artforms.
• Promote the development of students' critical skills through evaluation of their work and that of others.