JUSTICE
EDUCATION

Spring 2023 Courses

Common Good and the Pursuit of Purpose

Students selected to participate in the Pursuit of Purpose summer fellowship enroll in this course exploring the intersection of the common good…

CST Colloquium: A Theological Response to Mass Incarceration

This course is an exploration of theological perspectives that shape our views on incarceration and will provide the context for the formation…

Dancing in the Street: Music and Social Change in the USA

In 1964, when Martha Reeves sang, “Calling out around the world/Are you ready for a brand new beat?/Summer’s here and the time is right/For…

Educational Equity – Washington Seminar

This course examines the complex contemporary and historical factors that obstruct justice and equity in the American education system. Students…

Energy, Climate, and Social Change – Washington Seminar

This course will examine the relationship between energy, consumption, and environmental ethics with the aim of fostering an environment that…

Housing and the Common Good Research Lab

This course will devote the first third of the semester to establishing an account of the historical roots of the current affordable housing…

Human Development, Human Flourishing

This course will draw from multiple perspectives to foster a deep appreciation of human development and flourishing. Human development is…

Introduction to Poverty Studies

In this gateway course, we ask: Why are people poor? We take an interdisciplinary look at poverty to better understand the forces that maintain…

Just Wage Research Lab

This interdisciplinary research lab enlists students in the efforts of the Just Wage Initiative (JWI), a collaborative research and advocacy…

NDBridge

NDBridge is a summer immersion where rising sophomores think hard about injustice, work with communities around the world that face it, and…

Organizing, Power, and Hope

This course will take place in a local neighborhood and students will learn fundamental concepts and skills of community organizing alongside…

Prison Writing

What does it mean for an individual and a society to be free, and what does this freedom require? We will explore these fundamental questions of…

Racial Justice in America

Racial Justice in America is focused on the historic and current impact of racial injustice and the urgency of the work of racial justice today…

Restorative Justice

This course is an interdisciplinary and experiential seminar focused on the roots, application, and practice of modern restorative justice. As a…

Social Change Fellows

Working together as a learning community, social change fellows will consider foundations to leadership in the 21st century, the dynamics of the…

Solidarity and the City

Solidarity and the City explores the principle and practice of solidarity in the context of U.S. cities. Students will examine the root causes…

U.S. Healthcare – Washington Seminar

The Catholic Social Tradition invites persons of good will to pursue a health care system that raises the dignity of each person. This seminar…

Graduate

Graduate Justice Fellowship

Like students nationally, graduate and professional students at Notre Dame are increasingly interested in finding mechanisms to bring their scholarship into practice in the service of the common good. The fellowship is one way to address that interest.

Graduate Student Institute for Engaged Research and Teaching

Designed for graduate students in all fields at all levels interested in applying their disciplinary lens and tools to issues of justice, the institute will explore principles and effective models of public scholarship and community engagement.

Programs

RISE

RISE is a pre-orientation program that gives incoming students a jump start on their college experience by introducing them to questions of citizenship, morality, and justice in a community of neighbors and peers.

Summer 2023 Fellowships

Summer fellowships at the center connect the research you’re doing in the classroom with communities around the world in order to create a more just future for everyone. 

Common Good Initiative

The Common Good Initiative enables graduate and professional students from across the University to integrate justice considerations into their personal and disciplinary interests.

NDBridge

A summer immersion for rising sophomores to work with marginalized communities, confront systemic injustice, and think about how to use their academic and professional careers to promote the flourishing of all.

Spanish Community-Engaged Learning

Students who are interested in using Spanish skills and developing intercultural competence can participate in community­-engaged learning (CEL) in a variety of local, national, and international options.

Programs for Education in Prison

Notre Dame is committed to bringing a world-class liberal arts education to eligible incarcerated individuals in Indiana. This is accomplished through a network of programs and in collaboration with other institutions across the state.

Minors

Catholic Social Tradition Minor

The Catholic Social Tradition minor is an interdisciplinary minor in the College of Arts and Letters that gives students a deeper understanding of the social ramifications of the Catholic faith by drawing on Catholic social tradition as found in the official documents of the Church and the experience of the Catholic community.

Poverty Studies Interdisciplinary Minor

The Poverty Studies Interdisciplinary Minor contributes to Notre Dame’s mission to “develop in students a disciplined sensibility to the poverty and injustice that burden the lives of so many” by focusing on the Catholic social teaching principle of the preferential option for the poor.