Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: WRITING: ORIGIN, EVOLUTION AND COGNITION

Department: Humanities Division

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 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: LING 138.