The Freshman Reading Program

Welcome to Drexel’s Freshman Reading Program website. The goal of this program is to provide students with an interdisciplinary experience, as they embark on their journey as college students. The shared reading, which they will complete upon entering in fall 2009, offers an important academic complement to intellectual inquiry that they will find throughout their academic careers at Drexel. It places academic engagement (teaching and learning) at the very center of the community that we are asking students to join. And it allows students to think, talk, and learn both with us and independently from the moment we accept their application for admission, rather than waiting until the classes begin in the fall.

The reading assignment for freshman entering in fall 2009 is Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present, by Cory Doctorow. In this collection of short stories set in the near future, Doctorow explores the world of “techno-geeks,” “bio-weapons,” video games and reality shows. In addition, two of his works pay homage to classic works of science fiction by Isaac Asimov and Orson Scott Card. For more information, please click here.

Important Information for Freshmen