ENGL 1134

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ENGL 1134
FWS: True Stories

Course information provided by the 2015-2016 Catalog.

When students write personal essays for college applications, they often discover how challenging it can be to write about themselves. In this course, we'll examine how well-known authors such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Alison Bechdel, Tim O'Brien, and others construct their public, written selves. We'll also consider how the style of writing affects how readers understand an author's personality and motives. Readings will include short essays, possible some poems, and a few longer works. Through the writing frequent essays, we'll explore why and how people write about themselves—for self-exploration, political or social change, purely to practice a form of art, or for other reasons—and we'll investigate how writing shapes lived experience.


When Offered Fall, spring.

Satisfies Requirement First-Year Writing Seminar.

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18230 ENGL 1134   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18231 ENGL 1134   SEM 102

  •  

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18232 ENGL 1134   SEM 103

  •  

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18233 ENGL 1134   SEM 104

  •  

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18234 ENGL 1134   SEM 105

  •  

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18235 ENGL 1134   SEM 106

  •  

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18236 ENGL 1134   SEM 107

  •  

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18237 ENGL 1134   SEM 108

  •  

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute