Summer Reading/Reflection Assignment

The theme of our 2008 First-Year Symposium will be ‘Friendship and Community’.  In preparation for this course, all incoming freshmen will receive a copy of Colors of the Mountain by Da Chen. We are asking you to read this book in its entirety before arriving on campus, to think about it, and to come prepared to discuss it in the first class sessions.

It is an autobiographical account of a young man growing up in mainland (‘Red’) China during and after the so-called Cultural Revolution. We have chosen it not only because it is a fascinating and exotic story but also because it is full of observations on friendship and community, both good and bad.  It will provide background and a common point of reference for our study in the class of friendship and community in the Western and Benedictine tradition.   

More detailed instructions on all this, as well as more information on the First Year Symposium, will be enclosed with the book.

- Dr. Gerald Malsbary, Director of First-Year Symposium

 

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