The Program's faculty and courses are drawn from sixteen different disciplines within the University, with predominant emphasis on the interrelations among art, history, philosophy, theology, and literature. Though the focus of the course offerings is predominantly on the Western Middle Ages, there is increasing representation in comparable periods in non-Western cultures.

Georgetown's location offers students a rich field of opportunity for exploration of medieval art, music, and literature beyond the University: at the National Gallery of Art, the Freer and Sackler Galleries of Asian art, Dumbarton Oaks, the Library of Congress exhibits, the Folger Shakespeare Library, Baltimore's Walters Art Gallery and, within reach, the major museums and collections of New York, especially the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cloisters, and the Pierpont Morgan Library.