Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: ABRACADABRA: LANGUAGE AND MEMORY IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The history of language, writing, and formal notational systems in science and technology. Includes ancient and renaissance arts of memory, universal languages and the development of the calculus, secret writing and cryptography, the graphical method, the rise of the 'scriptural' mode of DNA, the development and use of programming languages, psychoanalysis. No technical knowledge is assumed. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 575.