ENGL 1134

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ENGL 1134
FWS: True Stories

Course information provided by the 2026-2027 Catalog.

How do we understand the reality of others? For that matter, how do we know and understand our own experience? One answer is writing: writing can crystalize lived experience for others. We can record our observations, our thoughts, our feelings and insights and hopes and failures, to communicate them, to understand them. In this course, we will read nonfiction narratives that explore and shape the self and reality, including the personal essay, memoir, autobiography, documentary film, and journalism. We will write essays that explore and explain these complex issues of presenting one's self and others.


Distribution Requirements (WRT-AG)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2026SP, 2025FA, 2025SP, 2024FA

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  2334 ENGL 1134   SEM 101

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    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Campos, 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

  •  2335 ENGL 1134   SEM 102

  •  
    • MW
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Heo, B

  • 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

  •  2336 ENGL 1134   SEM 103

  •  
    • MWF
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Mah y Busch, I

  • 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

  •  2337 ENGL 1134   SEM 104

  •  
    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Caicedo, L

  • 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

  •  2338 ENGL 1134   SEM 105

  •  
    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Kidwell, S

  • 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

  •  2339 ENGL 1134   SEM 106

  •  
    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Mpofu, Z

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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