The First-Year Common Reading Program
The First-Year Common Reading Program involves all incoming students in readings and discussion of a common text that focuses on issues of social justice. Students receive the Common Reading text during the summer before their first year. Small-group discussions of the text and its relationship to Loyola’s mission begin at Wolfpack Welcome and continue throughout the students’ first-year courses. Lectures and special events throughout the year enrich the Common Reading Program. Texts in recent years have included Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder, Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, and Savage Inequalities by Jonathon Kozol.
For more information on this program, contact fyi@loyno.edu or call 504) 865-3622.