The Department of Art History and General Humanities was established in 2003 and is one of the first departments of the university.

Publications of collections of research papers were started at the department. Since 2005, the university has been publishing the collection "Scientific Notes of the International Humanitarian University". In 2010, the Scientific Bulletin of the International Humanitarian University was founded and began to be published. Series: History. Philosophy. Political Science", which publishes articles by leading scientists of both Ukraine and other countries.

In 2015, the international multidisciplinary conference "Black Sea Scientific Studies" was launched. It is attended by scientists from countries near and far abroad: doctors and candidates of sciences, professors and associate professors, as well as young scientists and postgraduate students. Such scientific meetings have become annual.

In 2016, the department opened a postgraduate course in specialty 034 "Culturology" and held the first recruitment to the third scientific level.

In April 2017, the "Cultural Studies" section was created in the international magazine "Evropsky filozicky a historicky diskurz" with the support of the department, which made it possible to publish the results of scientific research in this collection.