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Course Info for FYSM - 181 - 01, Fall 2025
Class number: 3385 Title: BIPOC Writers Department: First Year Sem & Colloq
Career: Undergraduate Component: Seminar Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: Yes Grading Basis: Graded Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 15 Current enrollment: 13 Available seats: 2
Start date: Tuesday, September 2, 2025 End date: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM, 115V - 106 Instructor(s): Bacote, Catina
Prerequisite(s): Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class.
Distribution Requirement: Meets FirstYr Seminar Requirement
Course Description:
In this course, we will read BIPOC writers who explore how the places people inhabit, physical and psychological, real and imagined, shape their identity and experiences. Specifically, we will pay attention to how a range of writers convey the complications of belonging, and the ways power can be used to exclude and harm or heighten the visibility of the maligned and forgotten. Our reading list will call us to bear witness to timely and urgent events and consider how spaces can be contested and reimagined through literature.