Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: WRITING: ORIGIN, EVOLUTION AND COGNITION

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: What is "writing"? How did it emerge in human history? How did it emerge in human history? How does it relate to human cognition? Beginnings of writing in early civilizations for commercial transactions; development into linguistic representation systems. Logographic, syllabic, and alphabetic systems. Spread of literacy and its role and effects or society and human cognitive processing. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 138.