Overview: LASALLE College of Arts - Rochor was founded in the year 1984 by De La Salle Educator, Brother Joseph McNally. LASALLE College is a specialised tertiary institution offering a comprehensive range of diploma and certificate awards in Design, Fashion, Fine Arts, Media Arts, Dance, Music, Theatre, Asian Art histories, Art therapy, and Arts Management in the region. LASALLE College of the Arts in situated in the Arts, Culture, Learning and Entertainment hub.....Continuing reading of Singapore, between Short Street and Prinsep Street. LASALLE functions for the education of students, enrichment of art, promotion of artistic communication and largely for the cultural and economic well-being of Singapore.
Mission: To state the aspiring goals of LASALLE College of Arts, it would not be wrong to state that it desires to become one of the world’s premier educational institutes for contemporary creativity in Arts. It aspires to become a leading educational resource for Singapore’s creative industries, and wants to create a major artistic reservoir for local communities in the form of successful students.
Vision: LASALLE College of Arts solemnly subscribes to a set of values and principles that it believes is imperative for its success as an educational institute. LASALLE values the ability of art to communicate across cultures and geography at large. It believes in the power of education and extensive research to enlighten individuals, and societies at large. It prepares its students to blossom into sustained employees in a brighter future. It believes in increasing the opportunity to create new art by transcending traditional subject boundaries. It respects and upholds the traditional freedom of artists. And finally, is a staunch proponent of truth beyond words, but which can be acquired through inquisitiveness and art.
Infrastructure: The Campus has the amenities to serve its students are 1,500 sqm of contemporary art exhibition and gallery spaces, The region’s first Theatre and Art Production Workshop which will let you create full-scale sets on-campus, Three theatres, including Singapore’s first black box theatre with flexible ‘in-the-round’ seating Dance studios with total approximate size of 662 sqm, 10 computer labs equipped with iMacs, 10 classrooms to accommodate up to 30 students, Three lecture theatres totalling 304 sqm, ‘Converged’ network communications infrastructure by Cisco, including a wireless network environment, supporting services like e-learning, video conferencing, education, digital media, and campus security. Other spaces that are used for recreational purposes are Singapore Airlines Theatre, Creative Cube, Flexible Performance Space, Rehearsals and Dance Studios, Lecture Theatre and Classroom Pods, Praxis Space and Project Space in the outdoors, Amphitheatre, Brother Joseph McNally Gallery.
Faculty: LASALLE College of Arts - Rochor continually tries to internationalise and develop the teaching faculty and curriculum in order to ensure that this education institute becomes a global school-house. The international staff that comprises of designers and painters to actors, composers, dancers, directors, filmmakers, interactive artists, art historians, critics, curators, musicians, sculptors, printmakers, playwrights, singers, and many more are respected practitioners whose creative practises span the breadth of various professions and experience avenues.
Accreditation: LASALLE College of the Arts is a private, non-profit Institution. It received its accreditation from ‘The Open University’ UK’s largest university, in the year 2004. The Open University is a ‘public’ educational enterprise andwas established in the year 1969.....Reading in short