该系提供通往文学硕士和哲学博士学位的课程。该系提供从古代到近代的艺术史研究，特别集中研究从文艺复兴时期到近代的美洲艺术和欧洲艺术。与Bryn Mawr学院和宾夕法尼亚大学的合作安排使学生可以在这两个机构上课。与各种机构进行的其他安排使学生能够处理原始物品和文件，并在教职员工和博物馆工作人员的监督下安排各种主题的展览。位于校园内的大学美术馆收藏了大约6,000件物品，用于教学和学生研究，并为组织展览提供了机会。例如，格特鲁德·科塞伯（GertrudeKäsebier）的摄影作品和亚伯拉罕·沃克威兹（Abra
With programs leading to the degrees of master of arts and doctor of philosophy, the department offers studies in the history of art from ancient to modern times, with special concentrations in art of the Americas and in European art from the Renaissance through the modern eras. Cooperative arrangements with Bryn Mawr College and the University of Pennsylvania permit students to take courses at both institutions. Other arrangements with various institutions enable students to work with original objects and documents and to arrange, under faculty and museum staff supervision, exhibitions on a variety of subjects. The University Gallery, located on the UD campus, has a collection of about 6,000 objects for teaching and student research as well as opportunities for organization of exhibitions. The collections of Gertrude K'sebier photographs and Abraham Walkowitz paintings and drawings are the largest in existence. The University Gallery has received the Paul R. Jones Collection of African American Art, the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Native American Art Collection and the Mabel and Harley McKeague Alaskan Inuit Collection. There is also a collection of books and ephemera on Italian Futurism. The Mark Samuels Lasner Collection in the University of Delaware Library is especially rich in Victorian materials, including many illustrated books. Periodically, art history graduate seminars have contributed to the research for, and organization of, exhibitions at such museums as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Delaware Art Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, as well as the University Gallery.