Freshman O Book 2021

COMMON BOOK PROGRAM
The Common Book Program
The Common Book provides a common intellectual experience for our learning community
that is designed to support student success. New students receive the Common Book
as an e-book via their Winthrop email and will read it for their first semester on campus.
Discussion of the book will be more in depth when taking the Human Experience Course
and attending Common Book global cultural events.
2021
COMMON
BOOK
PREVIOUS COMMON BOOKS
AT WINTHROP
• Gives students a shared
intellectual experience
• Exposes students to
perspectives that are different
from their own
• Connects to HMXP 102 (The
Human Experience) course
• Supports student success
during the transition to college
life
The common book, Spare
Parts, sparked multiple
conversations across campus
for me. It is very interesting
to hear everyone’s point of
view on the book as a whole,
and the contents of the book
have been discussed in many
of my classes. – Freshman,
chemistry major from
Barnwell, South Carolina
Having a shared reading
experience made me more
open to my classmates as
each of us explained our
feelings and perspectives
about the book. These
conversations about The
Glass Castle helped me see
what similarities I have with my
classmates and was a great
conversation starter with the
other students in my classes.
– Sophomore, international
business major from Chester,
South Carolina
Reading the Common
Book affected my student
experience as I was able to
talk and discuss the different
meanings, ideas, and lessons
portrayed within the book. I
talked about it in HMXP (The
Human Experience), and it
was nice to hear the different
perspectives of my fellow
classmates and how they
viewed the events taking
place within the Common
Book. – Sophomore,
elementary education major
from North Augusta, South
Carolina
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