Literacies Across History and Cultures

Catalog description

This course will explore how humans have communicated their ideas across space and time – in essence, what does it mean to be what we now call “literate,” why did literacy arise, and what purposes does it serve? Students will endeavor to define different modes of communication (or literacies) in an age of globalization and of digital information, and look at these “literacies” through various historical, social, and cultural perspectives.