The COMMON BOOK PROGRAM is coordinated by the RCTC Honors Program, with input from all UC-R faculty. The Center for Teaching and Learning helps with instructional sessions and the RCTC Foundation (as well as other groups) helps with arrangements and funding to bring in the authors.

Here are the past common books at RCTC:

1996 Race Matters, Cornell West

1997 Good Natured, Frans de Waal

1998 Always Running, Luis Rodriguez

1999 Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt

2000 The Maiden King, Robert Bly & Marion Woodman

2001 The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston

2002 The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Thomas Friedman

2003 Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich

2004???