Resources for Instructors
UWP
Instructor's Guide
Common Reading
Program
The Common Reading Program is a university-wide initiative to create
a shared reading experience among first-year students at UF. This
program provides instructors in the UWP a good opportunity to create a
theme or to initiate discussion on topics directly related to the
course. In brief, students are given a book during summer orientation
and are encouraged to read it with these basic program goals:
- Provide a shared experience with a diverse community of learners creating a common framework upon which to base further dialogue and discussion.
- Sharpen intellectual and interpersonal skills through interdisciplinary discussion and exposure to multiple perspectives to help students be successful learners integrating material in and out of the classroom.
- Engage fellow students, faculty and staff in a collaborative learning environment that develops stronger partnerships in learning.
The Dean of Students plans to get the program off the ground for
Summer B and have it fully operational by the fall semester of 2007.
One
advantage for teachers ENC 1101 during Summer B is that though the
shortened semester makes reading longer works difficult, because
students will already have had the opportunity to read the book,
assigning it shouldn't be such a burden.
The book for the 2007-2008 academic year is Mountains Beyond
Mountains, by a Pulitzer prize winning writer of non-fiction,
which
(according to the publisher's teaching guide), "tells the true story of
one man’s commitment to bring quality health care to the world’s
poorest communities . . . [and] raises several profound questions about
issues of access to health care and the global distribution of wealth."
