Art History and Education

Overview

In this Art History and Education PhD from University of Arizona , you will have the opportunity to participate in senior capstone courses, internships, and study abroad. Further, you will gain an extensive understanding of both historical and contemporary western visual culture, from Ancient to Contemporary art and architecture.

The faculty is committed to delivering you a quality academic experience. Through thoughtful teaching and mentoring, the goal of the Art History division is to provide a rigorous and dynamic learning experience that will be applicable to a range of professional outcomes.

Library and Museum Resources

You will find excellent library facilities available at the University of Arizona. The Main Library contains an art book collection consisting of approximately 120,000 volumes and 200 current art journal subscriptions in an overall library collection of approximately 7 million titles. Supporting collections include extensive holdings in facsimile editions and original rare books and manuscripts in Special Collections. 

The computerized library catalog is online. New data bases and services are added continually to the extremely user-friendly, state-of-the-art system, including internal and external subject searches, access to the catalogs of other university libraries and to a wide range of data bases, and to new computerized research tools on a world-wide basis, including Worldcat. An efficient Interlibrary Loan Department makes available materials not in the libraries of the University of Arizona from other national and international collections.