The Institute for Ethics & Public Affairs (IEPA) exists to raise awareness and stimulate discussion of the ethical dimensions of matters of public concern, within both the ODU campus community and the larger Hampton Roads community.
Explore Gay Cultural Studies at Old Dominion University, offering queer studies courses and promoting academic research. Our program raises public awareness and examines gender theory, engaging the Hampton Roads LGBT community through education and dialogue.
The Institute for the Humanities at Old Dominion University offers an interdisciplinary Master of Arts degree in the Humanities. The program allows students to pursue individualized programs of study that incorporate classes from across the College of Arts and Letters.
The Institute for Jewish Studies and Interfaith Understanding is an interdisciplinary academic program at Old Dominion University that fosters knowledge of Jewish history, thought, cultures, and languages through education, scholarship, and community outreach.
The Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity (ISRE) promotes high quality teaching and rigorous policy-oriented research emphasizing interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches, as well as the methods of the traditional social sciences and humanities disciplines.
ODU Model United Nations Society promotes global, multicultural education and leadership experience through experiential learning, stressing student participation in simulation conferences and academic courses.
The SSRC is a fully equipped social science research center with staff expertise in various forms of research methods and data collection including mail surveys, telephone surveys, household interviews, and focus groups; and most conventional forms of data analysis.
ODU’s Game Design, Development, and Criticism degree is an interdisciplinary major that allows students to specialize in game programming or game design while also learning game scholarship.