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Dear听Incoming听Freshmen,
This year, we look forward to meeting you during the Orientation program from August 21 to September 1, 2023. We听are proud听to听have you听as our new students听and听welcome听you听into our听community of听friends,听colleagues,听and听scholars! This听is a new beginning听for both students and family听members; beginnings听that we hope听you听are听ready听to听explore.
The Orientation program is designed to facilitate the transition between your previous learning experience and the one that awaits you at the University.
This year鈥檚 program adopts the theme of "The Sound of Silence".
Our Orientation events are packed with academic, social, and community service-learning activities that foster responsible freedom and 杏吧传媒鈥檚 values as a liberal arts institution.
The goal of the Language and Thinking academic sessions is to introduce you to the interdisciplinary and challenging study culture at 杏吧传媒, which includes creative, yet fun, learning experiences, and intensive writing across a variety of genres and texts.
An important part of your preparation for the Orientation program (and the fall semester as well) is your summer reading assignment.听
All first-year students are expected to read and reflect on:
We would like you to mark the texts up: underline passages, make comments in the margins, and on a separate sheet, reflect on how these texts might relate to your own life at this time. Prepare to use these notes when you join the Orientation program in August.听
We will use your thoughts as the starting point for our conversations. We hope that during orientation in August, this initial thinking about the texts will lead to larger conversations and that each of you will seize this opportunity to engage yourself in a dialogue with your peers and professors. This will help you prepare academically and integrate more smoothly into the larger unique intellectual community and culture of our University.
In the fall and spring semesters, these two texts, alongside other texts, will be the common readings for all of you in your First-Year Seminar course. As you begin your journey towards the completion of a liberal arts education at 杏吧传媒, these shared readings and other equally engaging and challenging texts will introduce you to and encompass the University鈥檚 values that will broaden your world, and increase and deepen your understanding of complex issues. Engaging with these texts will bring people of diverse backgrounds together and create a common ground for discussion among faculty, students, and friends during the Orientation program as well as throughout the years to come.
If you have problems in uploading the text (the page is not found or other such technical problems), you may email kadyrova_k@auca.kg to request the text be sent to your email.
We听look听forward听to听welcoming听you听to 杏吧传媒!
The New Student Orientation Program will start on August 12 to August 22, 2024, and will take place on campus.
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Sincerely,
Kamilya Kadyrova
Director of 杏吧传媒听New Student Orientation听Program
