College Visit with Notre Dame's Kathy Cummings and Sam Newlands
Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Kelly Corrigan Show
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Exhausting, illuminating, filled with grace—that’s how the Notre Dame students in this episode described their college experience. In addition to talking to the kids, Kelly sat down with two professors who love their work, Dr. Kathy Cummings (winner of the 2021 Sheedy Award for Excellence in Teaching) who teaches history and Dr. Sam Newlands, a philosopher who studios hope, optimism and transformative experiences. This is a conversation for anyone wondering about the benefits of studying history and philosophy in an algorithmic world more automated by the day. Sharing episodes is easy and encouraged.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders, I'm Kelly Corrigan and this week I'm on the campus |
| 0:12.0 | of Notre Dame, wondering where and how philosophy and history and religion intersect in the |
| 0:19.2 | curriculum and also in the minds of students here in South Bend. |
| 0:23.0 | I've been to campus many times, my uncle Jean was actually the athletic director from |
| 0:27.0 | 1981 to 1987 and I grew up Catholic, so walking towards touchdown Jesus is pretty much |
| 0:33.4 | like approaching the steps of the Vatican. |
| 0:36.3 | My host today are Dr. Kathleen Cummings, who won the 2021 Sheedy Excellence in Teaching |
| 0:41.8 | Award and Dr. Sam Newlands, a philosophy professor who has a special interest in hope, |
| 0:48.3 | optimism and the metaphysics of evil. |
| 0:51.8 | Join us for two really wonderful guests today on Kelly Corrigan Wonders. |
| 0:57.0 | Welcome back to Kelly Corrigan Wonders, I'm Kelly Corrigan, today is our fourth installment |
| 1:13.4 | of the live from college series, where we go from campus to campus, sitting in on classes, |
| 1:18.5 | talking to students and interviewing top professors, oh and also racing from building to building, |
| 1:24.4 | looking for the ladies room. |
| 1:26.4 | Alright, I'm in Corrigan family all, I'm going to the Notre Dame studios, which is conveniently |
| 1:32.0 | close to the restrooms, which is really important. |
| 1:37.4 | Once I found my way to the on campus podcast studios, I settled in with Kathy Cummings, |
| 1:42.4 | who teaches American studies and history and directs the Kushwa Center for the study |
| 1:47.0 | of American Catholicism. |
| 1:49.2 | Kids here love her classes, faith and feminism, sanctity and society, and she was awarded |
| 1:54.8 | the highest teaching honor in the College of Arts and Letters. |
| 1:58.7 | She's been lauded for making history come alive with connections from today. |
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