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CalArts offers degree programs in music, art, dance, film and video, animation, theater, puppetry, and writing.

Students receive intensive professional training in the area of his / her career purpose without being cast into a rigid pattern.

Its focus is in interdisciplinary, contemporary art, and the Institute's stated mission is to develop professional artists of tomorrow-artists who will change their field.

With these goals in place, the Institute encourages students to recognize the complexity of political, social and aesthetic questions and to respond to them with informed, independent judgment.