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	Dr. Paul Spellman Division Chair, Communications and Fine Arts Wharton County Junior College 911 Boling Highway Wharton, TX 77488	Ph: (979) 532-6421 Fax: (979) 532-6587 Email: pauls@wcjc.edu

The Division of Communications and Fine Arts has these purposes: (1) to provide students with the basic courses prerequisite to more advanced study in selected academic disciplines; (2) to provide some of the fine arts and language arts leading to teacher certification; (3) to help students improve their listening, speaking, reading, writing, and creative skills; (4) to provide compensatory education in communications and mathematics; (5) to increase students' appreciation of the arts and to provide opportunities for self-expression having either avocational or vocational applications; (6) to promote the college by providing entertainment for its various publics; (7) to teach appreciation for diversity and some aspects of community and world culture as they relate to the arts, languages, and literatures; and (8) to encourage collaboration and team work.

Departments in Communications and Fine Arts

   English Department

   Speech Department

   Language Arts Department

   Visual and Performing Arts: 

• Music
  
• Drama 
  
• Art