The Montserrat Program is an extension of the First Year Program, or FYP, created in 1992. By tradition, the FYP seminars incorporated 19th-century Russian author Leo Tolstoy's question: "How, Then, Shall We Live?" For example, the theme for the 2006 academic year was "With so many claims of what's good and true, how then shall we live?"[5] Even though each seminar covers different academic areas, all FYP students read six common readings.