• Alliance for Catholic Education
  This two year service program allows college graduates to serve as full-time teachers in under-resourced Catholic schools across the U.S. Graduates earn a tuition-free Master of Education degree after spending two years of summer session classes at the University and two academic years teaching in the classroom. Matthias teaches a summer session class, Art Across the Curriculum, in which students focus on using a variety of activities such as reading, writing, research, drawing, painting, making prints, writing letters and plays and performing them. The class ends with teams of students producing illustrated storybooks, and performances of a scene from a commonly-taught children's book for which students have made and found all necessary costumes, props and scenery.
  
  
• Teachers as Scholars
  
  
• Workshops
  Every year the Education Department puts on a series of workshops for area teachers. The workshops provide teachers with information on how art can be added to their curriculum. This year workshops were given on African Art, MesoAmerican Art, Native American Art, and Surrealism. Schedules for fall 2002 workshops will be available soon.
  
  
• College Events
  For eleven years, the Snite Museum of Art has collaborated with the College of Arts and Letters in sponsoring a lecture by a well-known campus personality. These talks are free and open to the public. The talk is held in the museum gallery that most pertains to the speaker's chosen topic. The aim of these annual lectures is to encourage people to realize that scholarly thinking need not always take place in a classroom. It can also take place in the galleries of an art museum. College Event speakers have come from departments such as philosophy, English, theater, anthropology, and Irish studies.

  A reception provided by the College of Arts and Letters takes place in the atrium of the museum following the talk. This event is free and open to the public. Visitors may park in the visitor lots on Notre Dame Avenue and Bulla Road.

	On November 18, 2002, Kristin Shrader-Frechette, O'Neill Family Professor of Philosophy and Concurrent Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame gave a lecture in the twentieth century gallery called "Environmental Justice: Ethics and the Treatment of Latinos, Native Americans and African Americans." Shrader-Frechette began her talk by referring to the depiction of landscape in several nineteenth century paintings in the Snite Museum of Art, in which the painters had idealized the changes or "improvements" that farmers and owners of land had made in order to make their land economically productive. She went on to describe the injustice of situations in West Africa, Latin America and the United States in which large corporations such as Shell Oil pollute the environment and do not clean up the degradation they have caused to the places where poor people live. Shrader-Frechette called upon everyone, especially non-minorities, to be concerned about the public health and environmental risks that ethnic minorities face. At a Christian university at which most students participate in various ways to help the needy, environmental justice is an important field needing more action from the Notre Dame community so that the environment can be preserved, clean and alive, for future generations from all economic and ethnic backgrounds.		Kristin Shrader-Frechette, O'Neill Family Professor of Philosophy, refers to a pastoral idea of nature by Albert Bierstadt in her College Event lecture on November 18, 2002

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