Programs

Delaware Valley College’s academic programs include a strong core curriculum and an intense major curriculum; typically, majors require more than 40 credits at DelVal, while the major requirement at other colleges is often just 24 credits. In several of the college’s programs, designated majors and specializations are available that enable students to gain even more knowledge and professional experience.

All classes are taught by faculty, many of whom are professionally active in the subjects they teach. DelVal employs a hands-on method to learning; our faculty takes teaching to a higher level and requires students to actually practice particular methods in a work environment. This work experience, for example, allows Horticulture majors to learn how to prune fruit trees or Business majors to learn how to do case studies of Fortune 500 companies.

Our belief in a strong core curriculum gives students an opportunity to expand their areas of study in the liberal arts that focus on communication and the arts, humanities and social sciences. Free electives permit students to tailor their program to meet specific career objectives as well as explore courses enable the student to specialize in a particular study.

A student may choose a minor, consisting of a minimum of 15 credits, in any subject area outside of his or her academic major. Courses in the minor are selected with the advice of the Chairperson or Director of the department or program of the minor.

Delaware Valley College requires students to demonstrate competence in written and oral communications, computation and computer literacy.