Coming up: 'Thinking 101'
2023 Common Read celebration
ASU hosts Yale psychologist Woo-kyoung Ahn, author of "Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better," for a virtual visit on Oct. 26, 2023 at 6 p.m. ASU's Writing Programs has selected Ahn's nonfiction book as its 2023-2024 common read and Ahn will discuss the book and answer questions from faculty and students at this event.
About the common read
Each year, Writing Programs at ASU selects a book as a "common read." The chosen work may be adopted as an additional textbook by composition classes during that year. The goal of the program at ASU is to encourage first-year students to write about pressing social problems that are relevant to ASU’s mission as a public enterprise. By learning to write about such problems as a community, we increase the probability of finding solutions to them.
ASU Common Read is hosted by Writing Programs in the Department of English with support from The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at ASU.
Past selections & events
2022-2023: "The Undocumented Americans" by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
2021-2022: "Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America" by Michael Eric Dyson
2020-2021: "We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast" by Jonathan Safran Foer