Trinity College of Arts & Sciences for Undergraduates, Duke University

First-Year Students

In Trinity College we recognize the importance of the first year at Duke to the development of our highly talented students. We focus special attention on students’ first-year academic experience, from housing on East Campus to courses and programs designed specifically for them. The links below highlight our first-year signature courses and programs. These opportunities connect students with our faculty and introduce the numerous ways students can tailor their Duke educations to their unique interests.

For more information about the Trinity College First-Year Experience, please visit:

• The First-Year Experience
• First-year advising
• First-year requirements
• First-year writing course (Writing 20)
• First-year seminar program (49S series)
• Focus program
• Baldwin Scholars program (for Women)

Admissions

• Applying
• Financial Aid
• First Year
• Transfer
• Living & Learning Community

The Best of Enemies' Chosen as Summer Reading for First-Year Students

'The Class of 2011 will read The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South, about a civil rights activist and a former KKK member who worked to desegregate Durham schools in the 1970s.

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