Graduate Minors

Along with the Ph.D. in Spanish (Iberian & Latin American Studies), the University of Notre Dame offers graduate minors and graduate sub-programs that can enhance your studies and expand your career possibilities. Prior to starting a graduate minor (also known as a graduate certificate), the student needs to meet with the Director of Graduate Studies, typically during the second semester of study, to discuss different possibilities and receive advice and approval. The following Graduate Minors are particularly related to the Ph.D. in Spanish:

 

1. Highly Recommended:

Advanced Teaching Scholar Workshop Program (equivalent to a Graduate Minor in Teaching & Pedagogy and preparatory towards the Job Market)

 Workshop Programs

2. Others (Optional):

 

• Gender Studies 

The main goal of the Gender Studies graduate minor is to train students in the interdisciplinary field of study focused on gender and sexuality and their intersections with other identity categories, including race, ethnicity, class, age, ability, nationality, and religion. Pursuing a Gender Studies graduate minor is an excellent way for students to delve deeper into gender-centered interdisciplinary research, as well as to become part of a large, cross-campus community of scholars involved in research, teaching, service, activism, and programming related to gender and sexuality. The Gender Studies graduate minor program offers many opportunities for students to enhance their education and marketability, including research workshops, teaching apprenticeships, research grants, and writing awards.Learn more about a Gender Studies Minor

 

• Medieval Studies

The Graduate Minor in Medieval Studies provides master’s and doctoral students in the College of Arts and Letters graduate programs the opportunity to develop and certify the skills that enable them to engage critically with the texts, cultures, and artifacts of Western Europe and the Mediterranean ca 500–1500. Master’s students who complete the minor in Medieval Studies will be eminently prepared for further doctoral research in medieval fields.

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• Screen Cultures

The graduate minor in Screen Cultures aims to enrich and extend the work of students enrolled in MA, MFA, and PhD programs at the University of Notre Dame by adding expertise in research in the study of film, television, and other screen-based media. The graduate minor will give students more experience and depth in working with Screen Cultures, expand teaching opportunities, and broaden students’ profiles for job placement. Students minoring in Screen Cultures will acquire tools specific to the interdisciplinary study of Screen Cultures. These include theoretical perspectives and methods of research and writing in film/media studies and encompass cinematic, televisual, and new media modes of production and reception, aesthetics, history, and discourses.

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• Peace Studies

The Peace Studies minor empowers students to relate their existing study and research to a growing body of knowledge and practice within the multidisciplinary field of peace studies, with the goal of addressing violence and alleviating human suffering. The graduate minor will give students access to classes taught by core faculty members at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, who are among the premier scholars in the field.

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• Visual and Material Culture

The graduate minor in Visual and Material Culture (VaMC) complements the work of studentsenrolled in Ph.D., MFA, and M.A. programs at the University of Notre Dame by providing research experience in the study of art and material culture from a global perspective. Graduate students minoring in VaMC acquire foundational knowledge in the histories and theories of global art through course offerings from faculty in the Department of Art, Art History & Design (AAHD) in ancient, medieval, early modern, modern, and contemporary art. The minor introduces students to research methods that intersect with, but are distinct from, those of other disciplines such as film or digital media studies.  Pursuing a graduate minor in VaMC provides a way for graduate students to conduct image-centered interdisciplinary research in conversation with art historians from AAHD. It is also an excellent way for students to become part of a large, cross-campus community of scholars involved in research, teaching, service, activism, and programming related to the study of art.

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