The Program

 

GeNDer Studies

Open House Schedule
Fridays 11am-3pm
325 O'Shaughnessy

October 31
November 7, 21
December 5

 

Research Workshop
October 31
Presenter: Michael Tormey
Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology
Gender Studies Minor
Title: "Mail-order Brides, Internet Marriages, and Other Clever Misnomers"
Location: 119 O'Shaughnessy

 

Father Hesburgh Visit 5-17-07

 

Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary academic program in the College of Arts and Letters at Notre Dame.  Gender Studies analyzes the significance of gender—and the cognate subjects of sex, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, religion, and nationality—in all areas of human life, especially in the social formation of human identities, practices, and institutions.  Gender Studies gives scholars the methodological and theoretical tools to analyze gender and its cognates in their chosen disciplines in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.  Gender Studies also provides its students and alumni with an intellectual framework in which the analysis of gender and its cognates can be creatively and critically applied to their personal, familial, professional, and civic roles.  In the context of the Catholic identity of Notre Dame, Gender Studies facilitates the study of the intersection of gender and religion in the shaping of ethics, culture, and politics.  Alongside our diverse array of courses drawn from across the university, our summer internship and academic-credit internship programs emphasize the holistic and practical life applications of a Gender Studies education at Notre Dame.