Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ABRACADABRA: LANGUAGE AND MEMORY IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ***** DISTRIBUTION COURSE GROUP 2 ***** 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 knowlege is assumed. Repeatable for Credit.