Common Experience

The Common Experience at Texas A&M University-San Antonio is a yearlong initiative designed to cultivate a common intellectual conversation on a theme and facilitate increased interactions among faculty, staff, and students.

Pillars of Common Experience

Common Read & Theme

First-Year Seminar

Speaker Series

Extended Conversations

Arts

About the Common Experience

The Common Experience is a program within the Office of First-Year Experience designed to cultivate common intellectual conversations and facilitate increased interactions among faculty, staff, and students. Our goal is to enhance student participation in the intellectual life of the campus by encouraging open discussion, civil discourse, and critical thinking. We aim to achieve this by utilizing the Common Read. The Common Read is a novel selected annually and sets the theme for First-Year Seminar Courses for freshman students. It provides students a chance to deconstruct and explore a common subject through multidisciplinary lenses and apply academic thought towards finding meaningful solutions to discovered challenges. Throughout the year, various events and programs will provide opportunities for engagement for the entire university community and beyond

Fall 2022 to Spring 2023 Common Experience Events Recap

Common Experience Through the Years

2023-2024 2022-2023 2020-2021 2019-2020 2018-2019 2017-2018 2016-2017

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