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Course Schedule - Fall Semester 2025
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FWIS 111 001 (CRN: 15039)
US HISTORY THROUGH BASEBALL
Long Title: UNDERSTANDING THE UNITED STATES THROUGH BASEBALL
Department: First-Year Writing Intensive
Instructor: Shimizu, Sayuri
Meeting: 2:00PM - 3:15PM MW (25-AUG-2025 - 5-DEC-2025)
Part of Term: First Year Writing
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Course Materials: Rice Campus Store
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Section Max Enrollment: 16
Section Enrolled: 16
Enrollment data as of: 15-DEC-2025 3:25AM
Final Exam: No Final Exam
Final Exam Time:
12-DEC-2025
9:00AM - 12:00PM F
Description: This is a course that uses the game of baseball as a prism through which to understand a complicated last 150 years of US history. It is a course about the place of baseball in American society and how the game both reflected and shaped/influenced American society. We will examine issues of economic growth and the rise of modern sport, race, gender, class, immigration, suburbanization, urban planning, capitalism, globalization and personal and community identity in American history using baseball as our analytical lens.