HIST 1200

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HIST 1200
FWS: Writing History

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

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.


Writing and Languages (FWS)

Distribution Requirements (WRT-AG)

Exploratory Studies (SAAREA)

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Gender, Medicine, and Body in East Asian Hist

  • 20499 HIST 1200   SEM 101

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    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Guo, 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: Divided Memory: Hist through Civil War

  • 20500 HIST 1200   SEM 102

  •  
    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Lemos, 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:Darn Tootin'!: Histories of African Amer West

  • 20501 HIST 1200   SEM 103

  •  
    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 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: A People's History of Contemporary Europe

  • 20502 HIST 1200   SEM 104

  •  
    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Plukker, 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: Movements for Economic Justice in Modern US

  • 20503 HIST 1200   SEM 105

  •  
    • MWF
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Goodwin, 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: Saltwater Histories: Seas around Modern Asia

  • 20780 HIST 1200   SEM 106

  •  
    • MWF
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Chen, X

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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