HIST 1200

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HIST 1200
FWS: Writing History

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

How can we learn about the past? How do we tell stories about the past? How do we judge the truth of falsity of evidence? Writing History seminars introduce students to many different ways of interpreting and writing about the past, and to the wide range of sources that historians use: from diaries to tax rolls, from scraps of textile to films and advertisements. Topics and readings vary by section.


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

  • Topic: FWS: Romanticism & Nationalism

  • 19755 HIST 1200   SEM 101

  •  
    • Topic: FWS: Romanticism & Nationalism
    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Eaton, D

  • 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

  • Topic: FWS:Designing a New Wrld:Hist-Plannng in Americas

  • 19756 HIST 1200   SEM 102

  •  
    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Norris, 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

  • Topic: FWS: European Modernities

  • 19757 HIST 1200   SEM 103

  •  
    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Rubinstein, D

  • 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

  • Topic: FWS: Past and Present of the South China Sea

  • 19758 HIST 1200   SEM 104

  •  
    • MWF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Wang, 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

  • Topic: FWS: Microhistories of Modern Asia

  • 19759 HIST 1200   SEM 105

  •  
    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Miller, M

  • 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

  • Topic: FWS: Boogie Woogie Train: Afr Amer Hist thru Mvmnt

  • 19760 HIST 1200   SEM 106

  •  
    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Roggensack, K

  • 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

  • Topic: FWS: History of the Future

  • 19761 HIST 1200   SEM 107

  •  
    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Walters, J

  • 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

  • Topic: FWS: American Pessimism

  • 19762 HIST 1200   SEM 108

  •  
    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Walters, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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