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SUMMER READING

The Summer Reading Program at St. Marys College of Maryland

From the first day on campus, we want students to engage in meaningful activities with other students, professors, and staff members, and we want these activities grounded in text. We want our students to understand that, in the academy, conversations and actions should be grounded in text, regardless of discipline.  We also want to challenge the way that academic and social life are assumed to be separate.  A common summer reading helps provide as a starting point for both social connections and academic exploration.  To this end, each year we choose a text proposed by the faculty. We then build our first day of Orientation around the summer reading.  Please read on to find out about this year's selection!

Past Summer Readings

• 2007 Frankenstein (by Mary Shelley)
• 2008 Kindred (by Octavia Butler) and selected poems by Lucille Clifton
• 2009 Field Notes from a Catastrophe (by Elizabeth Kolbert)
• 2010 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (by Mark Twain)

Summer Reading 2011: A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid (by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela)  

  

 

Accessing the Books:  Books will be available in the campus bookstore, www.smcmbooks.com, for a reduced cost and you may purchase them during New Student Days.  Many used copies are available through amazon.com as well.  Any student who has trouble getting the book should contact the Office of the Core Curriculum at 240-895-2185.