The Freshman Common Reading Program at Saint Peter’s University has been designed to help foster community among our first year students, promote shared values, and a create a sense of academic rigor. It also serves to connect faculty and student affairs personnel by enhancing the classroom experience with co-curricular activities. The Saint Peter’s University Freshman Common Reading Program learning goals and objectives are listed below:

Freshman Common Reading Program Goals:

• Strengthen written and oral communication skills
• Enhance critical thinking, creativity and analytical reasoning
• Foster a spirit of academic community
• Promote reflection and dialogue among students and faculty around a common academic activity

Freshman Common Reading Program Objectives:

• Engage in reflection and dialogue
• Utilize critical thinking, creativity and analytical reasoning to improve reading, written and oral communication skills
• Acquire a sense of shared academic goals
• Develop written and oral communication skills
• Appreciate and discuss the values embodied in the text

All first year students are required to read the common reading text as a part of their English composition course.