First-Year Seminar common reader program

The common reader program is the reading assignment attached to the First-Year Seminar. First-year students are required to register for this course, entitled PSYC 1100 Learning Frameworks, within their first year at UHCL. 

This seminar operates as a co-requisite course along with a history or government course. Throughout the course, students read a novel as a community to improve upon skills such as active learning, critical thinking and college-level research.

“In the First-Year Seminar, students are asked to consider the question, ‘How does critical thinking help us become engaged, purposeful global citizens?’ as they contemplate how they want to impact their world and how their efforts at UHCL will prepare them to achieve these goals,” said Wanalee Romero, director of the First-Year Seminar Program and Faculty in Humanities and Latina/o and Latin American Studies.

First-year students work with the same group of peers in order to build upon their study skills while also making connections. Establishing relationships with peers early on will assist in first-year students coming into their own and moving forward with confidence, in their ability to succeed in higher education.

This year’s book will be “The Book of Unknown Americans” by Cristina Henríquez.