LING0150 - Writing Systems

Status
A
Activity
REC
Section number integer
202
Title (text only)
Writing Systems
Term
2022C
Subject area
LING
Section number only
202
Section ID
LING0150202
Course number integer
150
Meeting times
F 12:00 PM-12:59 PM
Meeting location
WILL 421
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
0150
Fulfills
History & Tradition Sector
Use local description
No