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College of Liberal Arts
New Student Orientation
Dates and Information
New Student Orientation Dates
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Friday, November 13, 2009 (Transfers)
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Saturday, November 14, 2009 (Freshmen)
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010 (Transfers)
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010 (Freshmen)
Reading List
University-Wide:
- Johnson, Spencer, and Blanchard, Kenneth H., Who Moved My Cheese?
(Vermilion, ISBN: 0091816971) (Everyone will read this book.)
School of Liberal Arts:
English and Foreign Languages
- Mathabane, Mark, Kaffir Boy (Simon and Schuster, ISBN: 0-684-84828-7)
Fine Arts
Edmonds, David, and Eidinow, Hohn, Wittgenstein’s Poker: The Story of a
Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers (Harper Perennial,
ISBN: 0060936649)
History
- Ellison, Ralph, Invisible Man (Vintage, paperback)
Interdisciplinary Studies
- Miller, John G., QBQ! The Question Behind the Question (Penguin, ISBN:
0399152334)
Mass Communications and Journalism
- Bogle, Donald, Primetime Blues: African-Americans on Network Television
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, ISBN: 0-374-52718-0)
Music
- Campbell, Don, The Mozart Effect (Harper Paperbacks, ISBN: 0060937203)
Political Science
- Ogletree, Charles, Jr., All Deliberate Speed, (W. W. Norton & Company,
ISBN: 0393326861)
Psychology
- Seligman, Martin, Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your
Life (Free Press, paperback)
Sociology
- DuBois, W.E.B., The Souls of Black Folk (Penguin Classics, ISBN:
014018998X)
All of these books can be ordered from any of the major bookstores. They
should also be available at the NSU bookstore. You may also find them at
Amazon.com, where virtually all of them will be available in paperback
and many will be available used.
You will be given further instructions
regarding the discussion of and assignments for these readings in UNI
101, an introduction to university life which is required for all
entering students. Since each major has a specific reading selection,
you should notify us immediately if you decide to change your major.

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