The Program of Liberal Studies, Notre Dame's Great Books program, offers an integrated three-year sequence of studies, leading to the bachelor of arts degree.
Students enter the program at the end of the Freshman Year of Studies.
Fundamental to the program is a conception of a liberal arts education which aims to avoid the separation of the humanities and sciences. The program seeks to provide a unified undergraduate education in all the liberal arts. The study of literature, philosophy, natural and social sciences, theology, history and fine arts will take place within a larger unifying conception of the liberal arts that cuts across many of the disciplinary boundaries suggested by these names. The curriculum grows organically over the three years, with each course presuming all its predecessors. Although the program emphasizes education in the liberal arts, it also considers the liberal arts in themselves as insufficient for a complete education.