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First Year at Siena Seminar
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Gleanings: A Journal of First-Year at Siena Student Writing
Honors FYSM
Heritage
Thomas of Celano on Francis 1-15
Sr. Margaret Carney's Siena Lecture on St. Clare (video)
Sr. Margaret Carney on St. Clare (text)
Plato. Reeve translation.
Genesis 1-4
Natural World
St. Francis "Canticle of the Creatures"
Excerpts from Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Diversity
Thomas of Celano St. Francis and the Leper
Peggy McIntosh "White Privilege and Male Privilege"
Social Justice
St. Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio
Martin Luther King "Letter from Birmingham Jail"