ASU Common Read
Coming up
A visit with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, author of "The Undocumented Americans"
Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022 at 7 p.m. AZ time
(7 p.m. PDT / 8 p.m. MDT / 9 p.m. CDT / 10 p.m. EDT)
This event will take place online and registration information will be shared soon.
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.
Past selections & events
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