澳门葡京博彩软件写道

澳门葡京博彩软件写道 is a first-year reading experience for all students new to 澳门葡京博彩软件. This includes first-year students, Ada Comstock Scholars, and visiting and transfer students. The program consists of three essential components:

• Reading the assigned text before your arrival at Smith
• Attending the guest author’s speaking engagement
• Participating in small group discussions of the reading

On Cromwell Day 2022, the college announced that our 澳门葡京博彩软件写道 program will collaborate with the Office of Equity and Inclusion in advancing their mission toward improving and enriching the educational work and experiences of everyone in the Smith community.

为此目的, we anticipate that our choices moving forward will offer keen insight into the discrepancies of our everyday world and support OEI’s mission of opening hearts, 思想和系统.

The first-year reading program at Smith has been in place since 1999. Since its inception, the program’s mission has been predicated on the awareness that co-curricular activities are vital to a student’s overall academic success and residential experience.

Reading closely and deeply serves as a tool—a means—not an end in itself. Reading prompts participants to reflect on their own background, beliefs and experience. Engaging in reading with others provides all readers with a commonality to anchor further conversation.

While books comprise the basis of most first-year reading experiences, other forms of “texts,” such as paintings, 照片, 电影, poetry and works of art are also considered valuable as potential and future reads.

As a community initiative, 澳门葡京博彩软件写道 operates so that all incoming students:

• enjoy a shared intellectual experience upon their arrival at Smith
• join a facilitated conversation about topics of intellectual, social and/or ethical significance with their house peers
• interact with critically acclaimed authors, scholars and artists as well as with Smith faculty and teaching staff who are invested in their learning

Following is an abbreviated history of past books for 澳门葡京博彩软件写道.

2023
The Book of Delights罗斯·盖伊

2022
The Book of Form and EmptinessRuth Ozeki

2021
退出西莫辛·哈米德

2020
受过教育的塔拉·韦斯特弗

2019
How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate——安德鲁·霍夫曼

2018
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, 凯伦·乔伊·福勒

2017
The Book of Unknown Americans, Cristina Henriquez

2016
A Tale for the Time BeingRuth Ozeki

2015
The Collapse of Western Civilization, Naomi Oreskes

2014
吹口哨维瓦尔第——克劳德·斯蒂尔

2013
我亲爱的世界， 索尼娅·索托马约尔

2012
Dreaming in French, 爱丽丝卡普兰

2011
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks丽贝卡·斯克卢特

2010
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women, Nicholas D. Kristop and Sheryl WuDunn

2009
The Green Collar Economy范·琼斯