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First Year Composition

The First Year Composition curriculum is comprised of three tracks:

  • Track I: Current Events
  • Track II: Catholic Social Teaching
  • Track III: Community-based Learning
The following handouts are useful in developing a strategy for research:

  • Hesburgh Libraries Online Catalog (Aleph)

    Find items in all the Hesburgh Libraries, including books, journals, DVDs and more.

  • WorldCat

    Over 125 million records for all types of materials owned by thousands of libraries worldwide; many can be borrowed through Interlibrary Loan.

  • Academic search premier (EBSCO)

    A large multicisciplinary database with much content available full-text.

  • America, history and life

    Provides abstracts of scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present.

  • Art full text

    Indexes and abstracts articles on archaeology, architecture, art, motion pictures and photography in international periodicals.

  • Expanded academic ASAP

    Provides indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for 3,500+ scholarly journals, peer-reviewd and general interest periodicals embracing all academic disciplines.

  • MLA international bibliography

    International coverage of subjects that include literature, language and linguistics, literary theory, dramatic arts, folklore, and film.

  • Music index online

    Provides citations to music periodical literature, compiled from over 600 international music periodicals offering historiographic, ethnographic, and musicological data.

  • Periodicals index online

    Index to millions of articls in over 4,500 periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences published beginning 1770 or subsequently; scope is worlwide, covering major Western languages.

  • Web of Science

    Multidisciplinary index to Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology and Social Sciences literature. Strong citation support -- find how many times an article has been cited and who cited it.