Academics

Kim Schlesinger '11

Major: English and Physics
Kim Schlesinger

" 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 >