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Required Summer Reading

Published by Penguin Group in 2006All seminars will discuss the following summer reading as part of the First Year Experience at Franklin. Please purchase and read the book during the summer months prior to orientation. Discussion of Greg Mortenson's novel Three Cups of Tea introduces the seminar theme of crossing borders.

Three Cups of Tea will serve as our first year common text and as a springboard for our Franklin sustainability initiative and several programs in service learning.  Get ready to join our active and dynamic community as we launch these exciting, new programs.


New Work
Professor Floyd Parsons publishes Thomas Hare and Political Representation in Victorian Britain

New Work
Professor Joshua Long publishes Weird City: Sense of Place and Creative Resistance in Austin, Texas