Writing Systems

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Explores primarily non-alphabetic writing systems from linguistic and anthropological perspectives, including ancient writing systems (Sumerian, Egyptian, Anatolian, Mycenean, Mayan, Olmec) and contemporary ones, the transition from writing lists to linguistic texts, and the different social roles of writing from clay accounting tablets of early state bureaucracies to bamboo love letters. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits.