ENGL 1160

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

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

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.


Distribution Requirements (WRT-AG)

Exploratory Studies (CU-SBY)

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  9477 ENGL 1160   SEM 101

  •  
    • MWF
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Bhattacharya, 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

  •  9478 ENGL 1160   SEM 102

  •  
    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • 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

  •  9479 ENGL 1160   SEM 103

  •  
    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Huh, 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

  •  9480 ENGL 1160   SEM 104

  •  
    • MWF
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Samakande, 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

  •  9481 ENGL 1160   SEM 105

  •  
    • MWF
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Undaloc, 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

  • 17895 ENGL 1160   SEM 106

  •  
    • TR

    • Morris, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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