Academics
Kim Schlesinger '11
Major: English and Physics
" The honors program has introduced me to so many topics that now it seems like I can learn anything. That was actually one of the biggest reasons I came to Notre Dame—to mix things up and take a variety of classes. " Read More >
2008 First Year Summer Reading List
Some suggestions for summer beach reading…
Belief or Nonbelief
by Umberto Eco and Cardinal Martini (Arcade Publishers, NY)
- Two famous Italians with different points of view.
Full House
by Stephen Jay Gould (Harmony Books, NY)
- Evolution, statistics and baseball; something for everyone.
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
by Kwane Anthony Appiah (Norton & Company)
- Reflections on the fact that we are all citizens in the same diverse world.
Chess
by Stephan Zweig (Penguin Books)
Radical Hope
by Jonathan Lear (Harvard University Press)
The Flanders Panel
by Arturo Perez-Reverte
- Art, Chess, Murder, Love -- all the ingredients!
Mathematics: The Science of Patterns
by Keith Devlin (Scientific American Library)
- Math, science and a great cover.
To be followed by a colloquium the first week of school >
