Notre Dame and Its Artifacts

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

For more than 170 years, Notre Dame has been collecting objects. Paintings, footballs, geological specimens, religious relics, stuffed birds, and Native American clothing can all be found on our campus. By looking closely at an object - who made it, how it was made, who bought it, how it was used, and how it ended up at Notre Dame -- we will seek to understand the history of knowledge. This class will work intensively with objects from the Snite Museum and the Hesburgh Library, among other campus repositories.