LING115 - Writing Systems

Status
O
Activity
REC
Section number integer
202
Title (text only)
Writing Systems
Term
2020C
Subject area
LING
Section number only
202
Section ID
LING115202
Course number integer
115
Registration notes
Course is available to Freshmen and Upperclassmen.
Crse Online: Sync & Async Components
Registration also required for Lecture (see below)
Meeting times
F 11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
George Balabanian
Description
The historical origin of writing in Sumer, Egypt, China, and Mesoamerica; the transmission of writing across languages and cultures, including the route from Phoenician to Greek to Etruscan to Latin to English; the development of individual writing systems over time; the traditional classification of written symbols (ideographic, logographic, syllabic, alphabetic); methods of decipherment; differences between spoken and written language; how linguistic structure influences writing, and is reflected by it; social and political aspects of writing; literacy and the acquisition of writing.
Course number only
115
Use local description
No