Common Book Project
About the Program
Winthrop University’s Common Book Project does more than
provide a common intellectual experience for our first-year students. One of many programs designed to support
student success during the transition to college life, Winthrop’s Common Book
also intentionally connects to our global learning and global awareness
commitment. Integrated into a course
required for all students earning a Winthrop degree, HMXP: The Human Experience, the selected book
exposes students to perspectives that are different from their own, reinforcing
both the course’s global content and one of Winthrop’s four University Level
Competencies.
Incoming freshmen receive the book at summer orientation
and can begin reading it a few months prior to their arrival on campus. They will discuss the book in more depth when
they take the Human Experience course and also attend Common Book global
cultural events provided throughout both semesters of their first year on
campus.
2016-2017
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