STS 4618
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Classes
STS 4618
Course Description
Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2017-2018.
How can studying the deep past of information storage and transmission help us understand our current engagements with information and contemplate its future? In this course we will we will explore the materiality of information-bearing artifacts over the long history of semantic inscription. From cuneiform tablets to digital media (whose veneer of immateriality disguises the complexities of the material mechanisms of storage and transmission), we will study the shifting materialities of the matrices through which information is stored, transformed, shared, and obliterated: compilations and remixes, piracies and hacks, inscribed objects and their digital "surrogates."
When Offered Fall.
Permission Note Enrollment limited to: 15 students. Intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARKEO 4618, CLASS 4632, COML 4615, MEDVL 4718, SHUM 4618
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T A D White House 109
Instructors
Roby, C