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)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2024FA, 2024SP, 2023FA

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Romanticism & Nationalism

  • 18244 HIST 1200   SEM 101

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    • Topic: FWS: Romanticism & Nationalism
    • TR

    • Eaton, D

  • 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:Designing a New Wrld:Hist-Plannng in Americas

  • 18245 HIST 1200   SEM 102

  •  
    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Norris, 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: European Modernities

  • 18246 HIST 1200   SEM 103

  •  
    • MW

    • Rubinstein, D

  • 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: Past and Present of the South China Sea

  • 18247 HIST 1200   SEM 104

  •  
    • MWF

    • Wang, 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: Microhistories of Modern Asia

  • 18248 HIST 1200   SEM 105

  •  
    • MW

    • Miller, 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: Boogie Woogie Train: Afr Amer Hist thru Mvmnt

  • 18249 HIST 1200   SEM 106

  •  
    • TR

    • 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: History of the Future

  • 18250 HIST 1200   SEM 107

  •  
    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Walters, 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: American Pessimism

  • 18251 HIST 1200   SEM 108

  •  
    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Walters, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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