| First-Year Writing Intensive Seminars |
Rice University |
| Course Name |
Course Code |
Course Hours |
Classification |
| Introduction to Academic Writing |
FWIS 100 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| the Bible in Popular Culture |
FWIS 101 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Blind Spots: Critical Approaches to Visual Culture |
FWIS 102 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Writing About the Arts: Looking at Historical Art in Its Cultural Context |
FWIS 103 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| What We Owe to Each Other: the Ethics of Writing and Research |
FWIS 104 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Us Politics and the Media |
FWIS 105 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Subversive Children's Literature to Make the World More Beautiful |
FWIS 106 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| in the Matrix: on Human Bondage and Liberation |
FWIS 107 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| From the China Desk: China Analysis and Reporting on China |
FWIS 108 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Newsroom 101: Writing for Print, Broadcast & Yearbook |
FWIS 109 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Drawing the Diaspora: Asian Diasporic Graphic Novels and Narratives |
FWIS 110 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Understanding the United States Through Baseball |
FWIS 111 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Writing About Videogames: Approaching Videogames As Literature Through Critical Reading and Writing |
FWIS 112 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| the Holy Grail: Religion, Quest, and Transformation |
FWIS 114 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Exploring Biological Research Challenges |
FWIS 115 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| American Journeys |
FWIS 116 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Cultural Diplomacy in the American Century: "the Americanization of the World" in the Twentieth Cent |
FWIS 117 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Happily Ever Afterlives: the Enduring Cultural Impact of Fairy Tales |
FWIS 118 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Life Writing: Our Stories, Our Selves |
FWIS 119 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Fiction and Empathy |
FWIS 120 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Time Travel Narratives: Fiction, Film, Science |
FWIS 121 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Jane Austenland: Falling in Love With the Past and Its Many Adaptations |
FWIS 122 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Star Wars and the Writing of Popular Culture |
FWIS 123 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Witnessing the Holocaust |
FWIS 124 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Writing With Artificial Intelligence |
FWIS 125 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Black Mirror and Philosophy |
FWIS 126 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| King Arthur in Popular Culture: Time Travel, Space Aliens, and Holy Hand Grenades |
FWIS 127 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Space, Speed, Cinema: the Automobile in American Film |
FWIS 128 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Africa and Globalization |
FWIS 129 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Posthumanism: Literary Warnings And, Maybe, Some Hope for the Human |
FWIS 130 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| the War on Drugs |
FWIS 131 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Slavery on Film |
FWIS 132 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Women and the Holocaust: Victims and Perpetrators |
FWIS 133 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Meiji Japanese Women’s Literature: Then and Now |
FWIS 134 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| What Is a Book? the Material Foundations of Reading and Writing |
FWIS 135 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Cowboys and Cornfields: (un)making the American West in Film, T.v., and Literature |
FWIS 136 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Pop Music and American Culture |
FWIS 137 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Plotting Marriage: Romance, Inheritance, Jurisprudence |
FWIS 138 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Shakespeare in Adaptation |
FWIS 139 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Imagining the Past: Film, Fiction, and History |
FWIS 140 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Storytelling in the Sciences |
FWIS 141 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Water and Cities |
FWIS 142 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Learning to Observe Through a Tour of the Natural History of Texas |
FWIS 143 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Exploring the Impacts, Purposes, and Revolutions of American Education |
FWIS 144 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Museums in World History |
FWIS 145 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Apartheid South Africa |
FWIS 146 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| the Art of Sportswriting |
FWIS 148 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Doing Things With Words in the Odyssey |
FWIS 149 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| the World of Medieval Medicine |
FWIS 150 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Nutritional Supplements: Real Remedies or Shady Science? |
FWIS 152 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Body Politics in Francophone Fictions |
FWIS 153 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Adapting Horror/adapting to Horror |
FWIS 154 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Writing Asian Food in the Age of Globalization |
FWIS 155 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| the Statistical Measures of Cause and Correlation |
FWIS 156 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Travel and Modern Asia: Lived Experiences Across Time and Space |
FWIS 157 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| the Holocaust in Historical Perspective |
FWIS 158 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| on Parents, Friends, and Other Kinships: From the Bible to Finding Nemo |
FWIS 159 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Gender, Race, and the Carceral State: Incarceration Through an Intersectional Lens |
FWIS 160 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Australian Culture and History |
FWIS 161 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| How to Write Essays About Love |
FWIS 162 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Sex, Death, and Spiritual Writing |
FWIS 163 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Ways of Walking in Literature and Culture |
FWIS 164 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Mediation, "fake News," and Democracy |
FWIS 165 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Exploring the World Through International Education |
FWIS 166 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Books You Can't Put Down: an Exploration of the Reading Experience |
FWIS 167 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Case Studies of Building Design Problems |
FWIS 168 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| What Are Human Rights? |
FWIS 169 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Whodunnit? the Golden Age of Detective Fiction |
FWIS 170 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| the Devil and the World: the Image of the Devil in Western Culture |
FWIS 171 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Sites, Sounds, & Stories: the Rhetoric of Public Memory |
FWIS 172 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Learning to View and Interpret Art: Re-evaluating Classical Art for a Modern Era |
FWIS 173 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Sounding the City |
FWIS 174 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| What Is a Disaster? |
FWIS 175 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Dramatic Pauses: Introduction to East Asian Performance Studies |
FWIS 176 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Storytelling in Buddhism |
FWIS 177 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Debating the Philosophy of Religion: God, Suffering, Rationality, and Morality |
FWIS 178 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Medicine and Disease in Transnational Asia: a Historical Perspective |
FWIS 179 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Graphic Blackness: the African American Comic Book Tradition |
FWIS 181 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Border Politics: Migrations and the Meaning of the Nation |
FWIS 182 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Utopias and Dystopias |
FWIS 183 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Contemporary American Poetry |
FWIS 185 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Country Music: an American Sound |
FWIS 187 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| How to Be Human: on the Virtues of the Personal Essay |
FWIS 188 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Post-apocalyptic Literature and Film |
FWIS 189 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| the Rule of Law and the Pursuit of Justice |
FWIS 193 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Latin American Dictatorships Through Film |
FWIS 194 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| on Nothing: Nihilism and After |
FWIS 195 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Science, Pseudoscience and Skepticism: How to Tell Good Science From Junk Science |
FWIS 197 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| the Essay As Literature: Montaigne and His Legacy |
FWIS 198 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Transfer Credit – First-year Writing (fwis) |
FWIS 200 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| 'their Own Mysterious Stardom': Filming Environments; Viewing Environments |
FWIS 201 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Blind Spots: Critical Approaches to Visual Culture |
FWIS 202 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Subversive Children's Literature to Make the World More Beautiful |
FWIS 206 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Us Cultures of the Sixties |
FWIS 207 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Newsroom 101: Writing for Print, Broadcast & Yearbook |
FWIS 209 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| the Meaning and Impact of Quantum Mechanics |
FWIS 211 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| the Supernatural South: Haunted Plantations, Confederate Vampires, and Creatures in the Bayou |
FWIS 213 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| a History of the African Diaspora in the Americas in 12 Objects |
FWIS 214 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Exploring Biological Research Challenges |
FWIS 215 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| What’s so Funny? Theories of Humor and Histories of Comedy in the United States |
FWIS 216 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Cultural Diplomacy in the American Century: "the Americanization of the World" in the Twentieth Cent |
FWIS 217 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Happily Ever Afterlives: the Enduring Cultural Impact of Fairy Tales |
FWIS 218 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Life Writing: Our Stories, Our Selves |
FWIS 219 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Fiction and Empathy |
FWIS 220 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Time Travel Narratives: Fiction, Film, Science |
FWIS 221 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Jane Austenland: Falling in Love With the Past and Its Many Adaptations |
FWIS 222 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Writing With Artificial Intelligence |
FWIS 225 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Multispecies Perspectives: Art, History, Ecology |
FWIS 226 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| the Age of Cathedrals |
FWIS 227 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Heavy Metal & Society |
FWIS 229 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Posthumanism: Literary Warnings And, Maybe, Some Hope for the Human |
FWIS 230 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| the War on Drugs |
FWIS 231 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Responsible Use of Ai for Research and Writing in Stem |
FWIS 232 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Mathematics As Metaphors |
FWIS 233 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Meiji Japanese Women’s Literature: Then and Now |
FWIS 234 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Moral and Political Authority in Premodern Europe and China |
FWIS 235 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Cowboys and Cornfields: (un)making the American West in Film, T.v., and Literature |
FWIS 236 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Pop Music and American Culture |
FWIS 237 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Imagining the Past: Film, Fiction, and History |
FWIS 240 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Water and Cities |
FWIS 242 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Learning to Observe Through a Tour of the Natural History of Texas |
FWIS 243 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Snake Venoms: Biological Weapons, Global Health Crisis, and Source of Novel Therapeutics |
FWIS 244 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Museums in World History |
FWIS 245 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Apartheid South Africa |
FWIS 246 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| the Art of Sportswriting |
FWIS 248 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| the World of Medieval Medicine |
FWIS 250 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Nutritional Supplements: Real Remedies or Shady Science? |
FWIS 252 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Socrates |
FWIS 253 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Gene Manipulation: an Evaluation of Gene-based Modifications to Animals and Plants |
FWIS 254 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Writing Asian Food in the Age of Globalization |
FWIS 255 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Gossip |
FWIS 256 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Travel and Modern Asia: Lived Experiences Across Time and Space |
FWIS 257 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Climate Crises, Environmental Justices |
FWIS 258 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Global Indigenous Environmentalism |
FWIS 260 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Australian Culture and History |
FWIS 261 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| How to Write Essays About Love |
FWIS 262 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Sex, Death, and Spiritual Writing |
FWIS 263 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Mediation, "fake News," and Democracy |
FWIS 265 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Books You Can't Put Down: an Exploration of the Reading Experience |
FWIS 267 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Case Studies of Building Design Problems |
FWIS 268 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Memory Wars: Reckoning With Historical Trauma |
FWIS 269 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Whodunnit? the Golden Age of Detective Fiction |
FWIS 270 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| the Devil and the World: the Image of the Devil in Western Culture |
FWIS 271 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| the Rhetoric of Star Trek |
FWIS 273 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Sounding the City |
FWIS 274 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Dramatic Pauses: Introduction to East Asian Performance Studies |
FWIS 276 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Storytelling in Buddhism |
FWIS 277 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Debating the Philosophy of Religion: God, Suffering, Rationality, and Morality |
FWIS 278 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Across the Story-verse: Adaption and Storytelling |
FWIS 279 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Relationship Structures: Monogamy, Multiamory, and Beyond |
FWIS 280 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Graphic Blackness: the African American Comic Book Tradition |
FWIS 281 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Border Politics: Migrations and the Meaning of the Nation |
FWIS 282 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Minorities and Subcultures in East Asia |
FWIS 286 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Country Music: an American Sound |
FWIS 287 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| How to Be Human: on the Virtues of the Personal Essay |
FWIS 288 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Fembots: Women and Ai in Film and Literature |
FWIS 289 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| the Art of the Short Story |
FWIS 291 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| the Roaring Twenties |
FWIS 292 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| the Rule of Law and the Pursuit of Justice |
FWIS 293 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| on Nothing: Nihilism and After |
FWIS 295 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| Science, Pseudoscience and Skepticism: How to Tell Good Science From Junk Science |
FWIS 297 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
| the Essay As Literature: Montaigne and His Legacy |
FWIS 298 |
3 |
Undergraduate Lower-Level |
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