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 2007, 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 2007 is Servants of the Map, by Andrea Barrett, which consists of short stories that integrate the sciences and the humanities. The characters, including professors, graduate students, cartographers and natural historians, deal not only with issues of science, but also with issues of the heart and family. For more information, please click here.

Important Information for Freshmen