Editing Cathedral of Learning (section)

===Cultural Studies, Film Studies, and GSWS program space===
[[File:CGSatPitt.JPG|thumb|right|upright|Former McCarl Center]]
Located on the fourth floor of the Cathedral of Learning, the current home of both the Cultural Studies, Film Studies, and Gender, Sexuality, & Women's Studies (GSWS) programs,<ref name="GSWS news">{{cite journal|url=http://www.wstudies.pitt.edu/news/gsws-programs-new-home-cathedral-learning|first=K. Briar|last=Somerville|title=GSWS Program's New Home in the Cathedral of Learning|issue=2|date=Summer 2015|journal=Gender, Sexuality, & Women's Studies Program|access-date=October 12, 2015}}</ref> was the prior home of the McCarl Center for Nontraditional Student Success until it moved to [[Wesley W. Posvar Hall]] in 2014.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=27002|first1=Kimberly K.|last1=Barlow|first2=Marty|last2=Levine|title=What's New at Pitt: Places|newspaper=University Times|publisher=University of Pittsburgh|location=Pittsburgh, PA|date=August 29, 2013|volume=46|number=1|access-date=September 12, 2013}}</ref> The space occupies what once housed two levels of the main stacks of the university's library.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stradallc.com/show_project.php?37|title=Strada - McCarl Center for Nontraditional Student Success|publisher=Strada, LLC|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080201050159/http://www.stradallc.com/show_project.php?37|archive-date=February 1, 2008 |access-date=August 2, 2010}}</ref> The {{convert|2500|sqft|m2|adj=on}} space was previously opened as the $537,000 McCarl Center in 2002.<ref name="About McCarl">{{cite web|url=http://www.cgspitt.org/about-the-mccarl-center.cfm|title=About the McCarl Center|publisher=College of General Studies, [[University of Pittsburgh]]|access-date=August 2, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725154349/http://www.cgspitt.org/about-the-mccarl-center.cfm|archive-date=July 25, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Made possible by a gift from F. James and Foster J.J. McCarl,<ref name="About McCarl"/> it was designed by Alan J. Cuteri and his architectural firm Strada, LLC, and includes wood finishes, double-height spaces with high ceilings and windows, a main corridor conceived as an interior street, and multiple elements that refer to the Cathedral of Learning's Gothic architecture including decorative painted metal columns with contemporary buttress-style arches.<ref name = "McCarl"/> Today the space includes a resource library, offices, and seminar room, and class room that are used by the Cultural Studies and GSWS programs.<ref name="GSWS news"/> Students in gender studies classes have access to the gender studies library, which houses classic and recent books on gender/sexuality, and to two gender studies classrooms. The GSWS faculty offices are also nearby. Also hanging in a hallway on the fourth floor outside the space, three unsigned and undated {{convert|7|by|3|ft|m|adj=on|1}} glass-encased murals that depict [[Renaissance]] painting styles and which have long belonged to the university but are of unknown origin.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=28 | title=Secrets of the Cathedral: From 38 on down | date=September 11, 2003 | volume=36 | number=2 | newspaper=University Times | publisher=University of Pittsburgh | access-date=August 1, 2010 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720033405/http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=28 | archive-date=July 20, 2011 | df=mdy-all }}</ref>