ENGL 1160

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ENGL 1160
FWS: Intersections: Race, Writing, and Power

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

How does race inform the way we understand the world around us? How do writers explore their experiences of race and colonialism to challenge conventional notions of nation, citizenship, knowledge, and self? In this class, we engage materials that complicate our ideas of race in order to imagine new forms of identity, social life, and political possibility. We engage with creators who are Black, Brown, Indigenous, People of Color, or from the Global South. The works we study may include podcasts, graphic novels, memoirs, poetry, plays, or films. Writing projects may be critical, creative, or research-based, as we develop our understanding of race and identity and by extension our capacities as writers.


Course Attribute (CU-SBY)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2024FA, 2024SP, 2023FA

Distribution Category (WRT-AG)

When Offered Fall, Spring.

Satisfies Requirement First-Year Writing Seminar.

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 19647 ENGL 1160   SEM 101

  •  
    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • McClam, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 19648 ENGL 1160   SEM 102

  •  
    • MWF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Pham, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 19649 ENGL 1160   SEM 103

  •  
    • MWF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Widerman, H

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 19650 ENGL 1160   SEM 104

  •  
    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Escobedo, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 19651 ENGL 1160   SEM 105

  •  
    • MWF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Murry, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 20122 ENGL 1160   SEM 106

  •  
    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Nashid, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.