The study program in theory and critics of arts is realized within interdisciplinary context with focus on three areas: theory and history of architecture, musicology. Programme‘s doctoral students are encouraged to apply various theoretical models and methodological tools of humanities, social and technological sciences besides the classical methods of the critics of arts using both internal scientific resources of Kaunas University of Technology and those of their international partners. Graduates of various university studies are accepted to the doctoral programme with regard to their scientific experience within the selected topic.

The PhD in Design, Environment and the Arts Program in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts has an explicit mission: to prepare students to become public intellectuals and transformative practitioners in shaping the environment at all scales – from the design of cities, buildings, and landscapes, to interiors, products and graphics.

Doctoral training is training in and through research and professional research experience. It leads to the production of new knowledge.

In addition to expanding the theoretical-practical-methodological knowledge of academic research in/about art in an interdisciplinary perspective between the various arts and other areas of knowledge, the doctoral course in Arts, from the School of Fine Arts at Universidade Federal De Minas Gerais, contributes to the qualification of personnel at a higher level working in universities and higher institutes in the field of art through interinstitutional doctorates and for the dissemination of research carried out in the Postgraduate Program in Arts by teachers and students, creating channels of dialogue between this production and thought and practice in art in Brazil and abroad.