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-7 posts tagged "program of liberal studies"
Claire Lyons | Monday, November 21, 2022
Last Friday, the Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) hosted a discussion with prominent and influential academic Dr. Noam Chomsky. Chomsky is most widely known as the “father of modern linguistics” and for his work as a cognitive scientist and political activist. According to the event’s hosts, he is also one of the foremost critics of
Elizabeth Prater | Tuesday, August 30, 2022
This past summer, my friends and I made a joint goal to finish reading the colossus that is “Anna Karenina.” At over 800 pages, this piece of Russian literature is one Leo Tolstoy’s most famous works, second only to “War and Peace.” My friend group and I all started this book at different points of
Maggie Eastland | Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Last year, University professors lectured to rooms of half-faced students or two-dimensional squares lighting up the projector screen. This fall, they have an opportunity to dictate their own classroom mask policy. According to the Notre Dame health and safety protocols released this August, there is no mask requirement in the classroom setting. Students always have
Ciara Hopkinson | Wednesday, November 15, 2017
I remember the first time I realized things don’t always pan out as we expect. It was junior year of high school, two weeks in, the day I got my first physics test back and had a mini mid-life crisis. For someone who was convinced she wanted to be a famous female engineer for all
Rosie LoVoi | Tuesday, September 12, 2017
You know the drill when you meet someone at Notre Dame: “Hi, my name is ____, I’m from ____, I live in ____ and I’m studying ____.” We say these things because they’re the traits that define us. In college, one of the most important parts of an individual’s identity is what he or she studies.
Lucas Masin-Moyer | Tuesday, March 7, 2017
During the spring of 2016, Pierpaolo Polzonetti, a professor in the Program of Liberal Studies (PLS), made the 45-minute trip from South Bend to Westville, Indiana, every week to teach a course on opera history. Polzonettis’s class in Westville was unlike anything he taught at Notre Dame — the final destination on his trip was
Benjamin Padanilam | Monday, February 1, 2016
“What is called thinking?” Most of my classmates from Philosophical Inquiry last semester would laugh when posed with this question. Asking it became a running joke that stemmed from the title of a series of lectures by Martin Heidegger that we read, as it became a symbol our experience as a group in this particular