This programme aims, accordingly, to:
•    Improve students’ knowledge, competencies and attitudes for effective performances in the arts.
•    Provide access for a diverse performing arts experience that spans history and theory, as well as technical and performance contexts.
•    Promote the practitioner’s continuous personal and professional development for employment and or entrepreneurship.
•    Expand student’s knowledge about integrating their artistic work with contemporary information communication technology practices.
•    Create a forum for the exploration of the integrative approach to the study and working in the performing arts.
•    Develop the foundation for participants desirous to articulate into further studies in the arts.
•    Encourage students to use the performing arts as a medium for inspiring and unifying mankind.

Upon successful completion of this programme participant should be able to:
1.    Exhibit solid artistic competencies and synthesize relevant academic concepts and theories.
2.    Demonstrate a broad based knowledge of integrated performing arts education and, at the upper level, a high level of proficiency in a discrete area of study – Music, Dance or Drama.
3.    Create original, professional level works and innovative full productions through processes of evaluation and analysis of research.
4.    Demonstrate a lifelong appreciation and exploration of collaborative creative problem solving in ensemble work.
5.    Integrate Information Communication Technology in inter disciplinary and cross disciplinary processes.
6.    Practise his/her profession with respect for social values and attitudes while adhering to legal and ethical societal norms.  
7.    Show initiative and self management whether as an employee or as an entrepreneur.

To matriculate into the Associate Degree programme, applicants must satisfy the general entry requirements in one of the following ways:

1. Pass at least five (5) subjects in GCE O’level, including English Language, with grade A, B  or C Or
2. Pass at least five (5) subjects in CSEC, including English Language, with grade I, II, or III. Grade III pass must be after January 1998. Or
3. Pass at least five (5) subjects in SSC, including English Language, with Range IV or V Or
4. Mature Student Entry. Applicants falling in this category must, normally, be over age twenty-five (25) years, with a minimum of five (5) years experience in an area related to the field of study which the applicant wishes to pursue – e.g. marketing, accounts, office administration, and management. Each applicant will be required to develop and submit for evaluation, a portfolio detailing his/her prior experiential learning. Such a portfolio may consist of certificates of achievement, positions held, along with job descriptions, references and testimonials, and proof of community involvement, among other documentary evidence.

N.B All applicants are expected to engage in an audition process.