Students are chosen for one of two Governor's School programs: academic, or visual and performing arts.

• Academic students spend the first days of Governor’s School focusing on the humanities, with students selecting workshops such as: Censorship in Rock Lyrics; First Amendment Rights, and The Movie Made Me Do It.

• Visual and performing arts students participate in intensive study in their specific fields and take at least one field trip. The music students usually go to the Mann Music Center to watch a rehearsal and talk with the musicians there. The art students usually go to Longwood Gardens and the Brandywine Zoo in search of subjects, and the theater students go to New York City to watch a Broadway production and go backstage to talk with graduates of the University of Delaware’s professional theater training program.

• Students will spend the week in the new George Read dormitory complex of the University of Delaware.