LEARNING COMMUNITIES & COMMON TEXT:

What Are Learning Communities?

A Learning Community is a small group of new students who take two or more classes in common, including a First Year Seminar that serves as the hub or “home base” of the community.

Nearly 80 percent of new students choose to participate in a Learning Community!

Common Text for '2008–'09: Freakonomics

Common Text is a book selection that all new students are asked to read. Through discussions of this book during your first year, you will grasp a better understanding of what it means to read actively and critically, make judgments about the validity of what you read, and discuss challenging, sometimes conflicting, ideas.

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, may cause you to think twice about everything you've ever learned about economics and the way the world works. Or maybe not. You decide.