Common reading programs : going beyond the book /
Common reading programs are becoming a ubiquitous component of first-year experience initiatives. Sometimes controversial, these programs are designed to provide students an introduction to the intellectual expectations of college in an often-informal gathering of college faculty and peers. Yet, tru...
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Colombia, SC :
National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, University of South Carolina,
2006.
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| Series: | First-year experience monograph series ;
no. 44. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Common reading programs: going beyond the book
- The rationale and goals of common reading programs
- Components and types of common reading programs
- Creating and implementing common reading programs
- Selecting the common reading
- Planning events and activities for common reading programs / Jodi Levine Laufgraben and Christopher Dennis
- Using the common reading selection in the classroom
- Assessing common reading programs / Catherine F. Andersen
- Conclusion: Going beyond the book
- Appendixes: A. Common reading texts referenced in the monograph
- B. Summer reading book list.