FIRST YEAR RESOURCES

• First Year Reading Program
• About the Book
• Discussion Questions
• View the video Run

This is the seventh year that all incoming Marquette University students have been asked to read a common text and to discuss it during orientation week. Previous readings have included such varied books as Chaim Potok’s The Chosen, Ron Suskind's A Hope in the Unseen, Ann Lamott's Bird by Bird, Ernest Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying, Lan Samantha Chang's Hunger and Anthony Grooms’ Bombingham. This year the first year students will read and discuss the novel Run by Ann Patchett.

The First Year Reading Program is part of Marquette University's Manresa Project. Funded by a $2 million grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc., the Manresa Project focuses on "vocation," a word that comes from the Latin word meaning "to call." The intent of the Project is to help students to listen to the deepest desires of their hearts and to hear where God is drawing them. Although the Manresa Project includes public lectures, faculty workshops, and student retreats, a major component of the project is the First Year Reading Program. Inspired by a desire to bring faculty, administrators, and students together outside of a formal classroom, the reading and discussion aim to help students begin the life-long process of finding meaning in their lives. The First Year Reading Program hopes to:

• Provide new students with a common educationally purposeful experience that will set the tone for the community by creating a comfortable, safe environment that is conducive to learning.
• Provide new students with an opportunity to explore their gifts and talents and how they might use those gifts and talents to serve others.
• Provide new students with an opportunity to begin exploring new perspectives and ways of viewing the world.
  

The selected book for 2008 is
Run by Ann Patchett.
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