Addressing Conflict

Finding Equitable Solutions


Called to a variety of disciplines such as religious studies, sociology, women and gender studies, criminal justice and law, Zags help others to find common ground.

What Inspires You?

Like Minded People

It Takes a Community

Community members learn that everyone helps create safe learning environments at GU’s forum "School Safety: Shared Responsibility for a Safer Future."

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Standing for Change

When students demonstrated a need for an academic focus on race and ethnicity, our faculty responded and an interdisciplinary program was born.

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Potential Areas of Study

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Sociology
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Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
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Pre-Law
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Religious Studies
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Psychology
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All Programs of Study

What You'll Learn & Experience

Understand how to empirically examine human behavior and social interaction across a broad range of academic disciplines, which will help you to resolve differences through the use of critical thinking skills.

  • Develop your capacity to see the world through a range of theories and methodologies that include gender as a central analytic component
  • Develop an awareness of the connections between our individual experiences and the groups to which we belong, an excellent foundation for a variety of careers
  • Reflect and think critically about your developing faith through the study of scripture, Christian tradition, and religion and culture in today’s modern world

The Gonzaga Difference

In the Catholic, Jesuit and Humanistic traditions, your learning prepares you to work toward a more just world. You’ll cultivate an understanding of what it means to be human, to experience a well-lived life, to find your role in a more humane global community.

Your educational journey expands year by year with these principals of our Core curriculum:

  • Understanding and creating
  • Being and becoming
  • Caring and doing
  • Imagining the possible

You’ll also uncover the richness of interdisciplinary studies, where courses blend biology and dance, faith and science, politics and literature. All to equip you for the next part of your journey, where purpose and potential evolve.

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