艺术，设计和视觉文化史哲学博士

阿尔伯塔大学艺术与设计系为学生提供激动人心且严谨的课程，使他们获得艺术，设计和视觉文化史的硕士学位（基于课程或论文的基础）和博士学位。这些程序强调对视觉，图像，物体和视觉事件技术如何介导世界的批判性思考。我们提供了有关现代和当代艺术与理论，设计，新媒体，图形艺术和博物馆历史的一系列课程，尤其着重于十六世纪。艺术史研究的对象来自亚洲，东欧和西欧以及美洲的不同地域的文化。博士课程包括三个要素：课程工作，候选资格考试和论文。完成课程作业后，要求学生参加候选人资格考试，以确定他们具有足够的知识来完成所需的博士论文
The Department of Art & Design at the University of Alberta offers students exciting and rigorous programs leading to Master's (course-based or thesis-based) and Doctoral degrees in the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture. These programs emphasize critical thinking about how the world is mediated by technologies of vision, images, objects, and visual events. We offer a range of courses on modern and contemporary art and theory, design, new media, the graphic arts, and museum histories, with a particular emphasis on the sixteenth century to the present. The objects of art historical study are drawn from geographically diverse cultures in Asia, Eastern and Western Europe, and the Americas.The doctoral program consists of three elements: coursework, candidacy examination, and dissertation. After completion of coursework, students are required to take candidacy examinations to determine that they have adequate knowledge to complete the required doctoral dissertation. The dissertation is expected to contribute significantly to the body of knowledge in the candidate's area of study and to merit publication. Candidates are required to defend the dissertation in an oral examination, in accordance with requirements established by the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research.