The First-Year Reading Project, active now for 11 years, gives first-year Honors students the opportunity to read a book collectively and discuss it with other students and faculty members.

“We gather all of our first-year students or incoming students and pair them at a table with a faculty member and a peer mentor,” said Dallas Doane, Honors Program coordinator. “It’s a great chance for first-year students to make connections at the beginning of their college career.”

This year, the students will read “Neither Wolf Nor Dog” by South Dakota Festival of Books author and Minnesota native Kent Nerburn. The book, set in South Dakota, is also the South Dakota Humanities Council’s 2019 One Book South Dakota selection. The One Book program encourages people from across South Dakota to read and discuss the same book throughout the year. The Honors Program plans to utilize the conversations and events happening in honor of the book across the state.

The Honors Program will host their own event for those involved, featuring Nerburn as keynote speaker Sunday, August 25 in the Muenster University Center Ballroom from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The South Dakota Humanities Council celebrates literature, promotes civil conversation and tells the stories that define the state. Its mission is to deliver humanities programming to the people of South Dakota.

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