Following an integrated curriculum composed of small discussion-based Seminars and Tutorials spanning the arts, history, literature, natural and social sciences, philosophy, politics, and theology, students and professors join a vibrant conversation about what it means to be human.| Program of Liberal Studies
Three University of Notre Dame researchers have been awarded significant three-year grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of ...| Program of Liberal Studies
University of Notre Dame alumnus Charles Yockey has been named a 2025 Schwarzman Scholar. He is the University’s second Schwarzman Scholar since the program was established in 2015. He is one of 150 students selected for the award from a pool of nearly 5,000 applicants. Schwarzman Scholars…| Program of Liberal Studies | News
Announcing the 27th Annual Summer Symposium of the Program of Liberal Studies: June 1 - 6, 2025 The Past, Present, and Future of Liberal Education As the Program of Liberal Studies prepares to celebrate its 75th anniversary this coming academic year, we invite…| Program of Liberal Studies | News
As a fellow of the 2023–24 Kaneb Center Course Design Academy (KCCDA), I encountered a number of tools and approaches I hope to adopt for the purpose of promoting a sense of learning as a collective effort.| Program of Liberal Studies | News
Ty Harrington, a junior from Carmel, Indiana, majoring in liberal…| Program of Liberal Studies | News
Gretchen Reydams-Schils Gretchen…| Program of Liberal Studies | News
Through a campus-wide contest, the University of Notre Dame’s Crucifix Initiative has selected two original pieces by student artists to add to its permanent collection. The winning…| Program of Liberal Studies | News
Three faculty members in the College of Arts & Letters have won National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowships, extending the University of Notre Dame’s record success with the federal agency committed to supporting original…| Program of Liberal Studies | News
Gretchen Reydams-Schils (who also holds concurrent appointments in Classics, Philosophy, and Theology) was recently featured on an episode of The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast to discuss the late-antique philosopher Calcidius, whose partial Latin translation of and commentary…| Program of Liberal Studies | News
It had been 50 years since I sat in a PLS seminar room. It had been a half century since I last sat around a table with a group of eager students discussing a great book.I traveled back to campus in June to join the 2023 Program of Liberal Studies Summer Symposium. I was hooked when I learned…| Program of Liberal Studies | News
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For Maria Antoniak ’11, a liberal arts education isn’t about having all the answers — it’s about learning what questions to ask. After four years studying great books in the Program of Liberal Studies, she’s now spent nearly a decade working in data and computer science across industry, nonprofit, and academic settings. “The background of PLS helps me engage critically with a dataset,” Antoniak said. “Asking creative and critical and pertinent research questions that try to ge...| Program of Liberal Studies | News
This fall, the Program of Liberal Studies was proud to welcome two new musicologists to its faculty. Arman Schwartz is a new Assistant Professor, and Heather Wiebe is a Teaching Professor, whose time will be split between PLS and the Department of Music. Both of them come with extensive experience…| Program of Liberal Studies | News
Mary Katherine Tillman, a professor emerita in the Program of Liberal Studies, died at Wellbrooke Senior Care Residence on Oct. 21, of complications associated with esophageal cancer. She was 81. Tillman was a scholar of St. John Henry Cardinal Newman, writing a book and several extended commentaries on the works of the19th-century English priest, as well as the history and philosophy of liberal education.| Program of Liberal Studies | News
Jennifer Newsome Martin, Associate Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies with a joint appointment in the Department of Theology, has had a year that highlights the role of international and interdisciplinary collaboration in her work and thought. …| Program of Liberal Studies | News
Now a cultural anthropologist and professor of comparative American studies at Oberlin College, Gina Pérez ’90 strives to foster that same love of ideas among her students that she discovered in the Program of Liberal Studies at Notre Dame, encouraging them to take fresh looks at topics people have contemplated for centuries. Driven by her faith, Pérez's has spent her post-Notre Dame career engaging with communities both in the U.S. and Latin America through service, activism, and resea...| Program of Liberal Studies | News
Lee-Stitt wins Notre Dame student body election Bella Laufenberg | Thursday, February 3, 2022 Patrick Lee and Sofie Stitt have been elected Notre Dame student body president and vice president, respectively, for the 2022-2023 term, earning 54.61% of the valid votes.…| Program of Liberal Studies | News
This year marks …| Program of Liberal Studies | News
Notre Dame has received a significant National Endowment for the Humanities grant for a digital scholarship project led by Robert Goulding, an associate professor in the Program of Liberal Studies and the director of the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values. He will lead the development of a proof of concept for an interoperable text framework (ITF) — a loose term for a body of conventions and contracts that specify how to format data and its associated metadata so it can be u...| Program of Liberal Studies | News
Lauren Groff’s bestselling historical novel Matrix captures a medieval world that Notre Dame Program of Liberal Studies assistant professor Katie Bugyis has always imagined. “It’s an extraordinary gift,” said Bugyis, a historian of Christian theology and liturgical practice who reconstructs the lived experiences of religious women in the Middle Ages. “She saw what has been in my mind and that I always hoped other people might see.” Bugyis’s research on routines and rituals of ...| Program of Liberal Studies | News
Following an integrated curriculum composed of small discussion-based Seminars and Tutorials spanning the arts, history, literature, natural and social sciences, philosophy, politics, and theology, students and professors join a vibrant conversation about what it means to be human.| Program of Liberal Studies
Following an integrated curriculum composed of small discussion-based Seminars and Tutorials spanning the arts, history, literature, natural and social sciences, philosophy, politics, and theology, students and professors join a vibrant conversation about what it means to be human.| Program of Liberal Studies
Following an integrated curriculum composed of small discussion-based Seminars and Tutorials spanning the arts, history, literature, natural and social sciences, philosophy, politics, and theology, students and professors join a vibrant conversation about what it means to be human.| Program of Liberal Studies