Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: University Courses

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: COMMUNICATION, COGNITION AND CULTURE ***** A team-taught course that addresses the nature of information technologies and their influence on culture. It focuses on orality, the manuscript culture, the print revolution and the electronic communication which culminates in high-speed powers of computation and simulation, and the creation of global information structures. The influence of these modes of communication on the following issues will be explored: imaging and visualization, memory, self and community, censorship and social control, authority, science and medicine, education, nationalism and ethnicity, and virtual reality. This is strictly a discussion course.