The Common Reading Experience, a joint initiative
between Academic Affairs and Student Affairs,
engages first-year students in intellectual inquiry
that encourages students to explore personal,
racial, religious, and cul tural issues. The program
was introduced in summer 2007
during new student
orientation and piloted in Fall
2007 and Fall 2008 in the
Freshman Seminar classes.
It is being piloted again in Fall 2009 in several
Freshman Seminar classes and some Liberal Studies
courses.
Kim Harris and
Dennis Wiese, Co-Chairs
of the UNC Charlotte Common Reading Experience
Selection Committee,
encourage you to read the 2009 selection,
Listening
as an Act of Love. Since 2003, tens
of thousands of people have interviewed their
friends and family members in order to hear and
record their stories. These stories tell our history
and our dreams, our triumphs and tragedies, our
successes and challenges. Dave Isay selected a
variety of these stories and organized them around
the themes of Home and Family, Work and Dedication,
Journeys, History and Struggle, and Fire and Water.
This collection of stories forms the book selected
for UNC Charlotte’s 2009 Common Reading Experience.
Details about
the book are available
online.
 The culminating event for the Common Reading
Experience will be an on-campus visit by Dave Isay
on
October 22, 2009.
Mr. Isay will meet with instructors and students
during the afternoon before his 7 p.m. presentation
for students enrolled in Freshman Seminar and
Liberal Studies courses that incorporate the
reading.
The Common Reading Selection Committee, co-chaired
by Kim Harris and Dennis Wiese, will offer training
for instructors interested in using this book May
27, 2009. Faculty interested in adopting the
common reading text for fall classes can e-mail Liz
Fitzgerald at
effitzge@uncc.edu for more details about
joining the Common Reading Program.
Former Common Reading Experience Selections
2008 -
Enrique's
Journey,
by Sonia Nazario
2007 -
The Color
of Water by James McBride
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