The Marino Book Series: Fifteen years ago, Georgetown University conceived the idea of engaging new students in the thoughtful reading of a text by a major international author. During the summer prior to their matriculation into the academic life of Georgetown, the university asks first-year students to read the selected text and write a one-page analysis of it. On the second Saturday afternoon, at the beginning of the Fall semester, the University invites the author of the selected text to campus to discuss the novel and the life of writing with all the first-year students. Immediately following the author's conversation with the new Hoyas, more than seventy Faculty members, Deans, and Alumni meet with these Hoyas in small discussion groups and together embark on a thematic and stylistic analysis of the novel. These small group seminars encourage students to comment on and debate the author's premises, challenge each other's interpretation, and sustain the arguments they presented in the required one-page analysis.
For more information about the book selected for this year’s freshman class, check out the Office of the Provost’s website and the New Student Guide found on the NSO website.
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