English 207 - The Technology of Reading and Writing

Technology-Reading & Writing

Fall
2021
01
4.00
Douglas Lane Patey

M W F 9:25 AM - 10:15 AM

Smith College
ENG-207-01-202201
Ford 015
dpatey@smith.edu
HSC 207-01, ENG 207-01
Offered as ENG 207/HSC 207. An introductory exploration of the physical forms that knowledge and communication have taken in the West, from ancient oral cultures to modern print-literate culture. Our main interest is in discovering how what is said and thought in a culture reflects its available kinds of literacy and media of communication. Topics to include poetry and memory in oral cultures; the invention of writing; the invention of prose; literature and science in a script culture; the coming of printing; changing concepts of publication, authorship and originality; movements toward standardization in language; the fundamentally transformative effects of electronic communication.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.