宾夕法尼亚大学的视觉研究课程为学生培养跨学科研究视觉和图像的创新联系做准备。学生获得了对视觉的批判性意识，以及对21世纪视觉的研究，思考和写作的问题和可能性。视觉研究计划从根本上是跨学科的，与哲学，心理学，艺术史，美术和建筑学系合作。学生可能还会对宾夕法尼亚州的课程感兴趣，例如电影研究和性别，性与妇女研究，或者在安嫩伯格通信学院，工程与应用科学学院的艺术与科学学院之外。该计划每年举办一次视觉研究讲座系列，旨在鼓励学生与宾州学院以及国际知名的艺术家，设计师，历史学家和工程师进行互动。哲学家和心理学家致力于跨
Visual Studies at the University of Pennsylvania prepares students to forge innovative connections across the disciplines that study vision and images. Students acquire a critical awareness of seeing and the problems and possibilities for investigating, thinking, and writing about seeing in the 21st century. Fundamentally interdisciplinary, the Visual Studies Program partners with the Departments of Philosophy, Psychology, History of Art, Fine Arts, and Architecture. Students may also find interest in Penn Programs such as Cinema Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies or outside of the School of Arts and Sciences in the Annenberg School of Communications, and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.