At the core of the five-year program are the traditional arts of China and the major art forms of the rest of the world. It is the Institute's goal to work from this core to create and develop modern Chinese arts that unite technique and art, theory and practice, incorporating traditional, modern, Oriental, and Western elements.
五年的課程，在藝院中心理念﹘﹘以傳統文化為基礎，吸收融匯各國藝術文化的精華，創造發展現代中國藝術﹘﹘策動下，不僅學科與術科、理論與實際要並重，而且傳統與現代、東方與西方，都要兼容並蓄，不可偏廢。