ANTHR 1101

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ANTHR 1101
FWS: Culture, Society, and Power

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

This First-Year Writing Seminar is devoted to the anthropological study of the human condition. Anthropology examines all aspects of human experience, from the evolution of the species to contemporary challenges of politics, environment, and society. The discipline emphasizes empirically rich field research informed by sophisticated theoretical understandings of human social life and cultural production. The diversity of anthropology's interests provides a diverse array of stimulating opportunities to write critically about the human condition. Topics vary by semester.Topics for 2024-2025 may include:TitleInstructorFWS: Canoe Cultures in America: Commerce, Conquest, ContradictionsA. ArcadiFWS: Historytelling as RitualJ. LuriaFWS: Culture on TourC. RechtzigelFWS: Becoming Indigenous in AsiaY. Liang


Writing and Languages (FWS)

Last 3 terms offered 2025SP, 2024FA, 2024SP

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Canoe Cultures-Amer:Commerce/Conquest/Contradi

  • 20510 ANTHR 1101   SEM 101

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    • MWF
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Arcadi, 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: Epidemic Narratives—From the Plague to COVID

  • 20511 ANTHR 1101   SEM 102

  •  
    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Scott Insua, 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

  • Topic: FWS:Intimacy/Power/Culture—Multi-media Perspective

  • 20512 ANTHR 1101   SEM 103

  •  
    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Sha, X

  • 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:“Fake Worlds”—Ideology, Artifice, & Deception

  • 20513 ANTHR 1101   SEM 104

  •  
    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Wall, 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: Plants and People: Our Story

  • 20514 ANTHR 1101   SEM 105

  •  
    • MWF
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Ramos Valdes, 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: Living Together: A Survey of Cities Thru Time

  • 20515 ANTHR 1101   SEM 106

  •  
    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Cruz Gil, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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