Because poverty is more than a line and people are more than a problem to solve

The Poverty Studies Interdisciplinary Minor (PSIM) 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. Poverty Studies asks students to examine poverty, injustice, and oppression through research in multiple disciplines and through experiential learning in which students encounter people experiencing and addressing poverty firsthand.

Poverty Studies seeks to form students in anti-racist, trauma-informed, and evidence-based action to confront and reduce poverty in local and global communities, now and lifelong. Through Poverty Studies, students combine passion, curiosity, knowledge, and skills to discern how they can help create a more equitable world in any profession they choose.