Notre Dame provides a full range of opportunities for social development. While each student has the room to mature socially, the Notre Dame experience includes all the traditional school activities- dances, proms, etc. The closeness of Notre Dame allows for collaboration in certain projects. Although the class day is free from the temptation to make social life a constant preoccupation, each Notre Dame student has before him the challenge and the means to develop the fullness of his personality.

An essential goal of the Notre Dame’s philosophy is to foster in its students sensitivity toward and expertise in good human relations, and to prepare them for lifelong participation and leadership in a society where human values become increasingly significant. Numerous programs and activities assist in realizing this goal: various knowledge areas in the social sciences and humanities are geared toward student awareness: a K-12 foreign language requirement promotes multicultural appreciation: opportunities to participate in student government encourage peer-group accountability and provide fruitful contributions to the total school community: social interaction within the school. Cooperation in co-curricular projects and participation in school social functions all combine to assist the student in developing and refining attitudes and schools necessary for creative human relations.

Education in the United States has consistently seen the importance of human relations citizenship, social welfare, and human right. Catholic schools have always shared this awareness and have augmented it with the Gospel’s directives of love, concern and the brotherhood of humanity. The social relations encouraged at Notre Dame are therefore, in essence, Christian relations. And include services to ones fellow man as an essential to participate in carious Christian service projects as a means of increasing their awareness if the needs of others.