The Bauhaus as an educational institute was a striving force in the process merging all creative endeavours into a single, unified, whole. A student in the Bauhaus would gain vocational training and knowledge of sculpture, painting, craft, art history, colour theory; even bookkeeping, contract negotiation and personnel management. The impetus behind this curriculum was to provide a common, standardised education across a broad spectrum of disciplines. Although this was often debated as taking away one's artistic freedom and perspective by feeding free thinking creative's through a grindstone of homogenisation, its purpose was to ultimately enable students to choose to become "competent craftsmen OR independent creative artists" --- "to form a working community of leading and future artist-craftsmen".
Many modern tertiary institutes have adopted a similar approach toward education in the arts and design. The First Year Design programme within the School of Design at Victoria University has roots firmly planted in the principles initially put forward by the Bauhaus.
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