CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Communication Studies, Sumer, Lascaux
15 Apr 2016
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Messages, ideas, information communicated is a major point of this course: medium/media. Not just a 10 dollar word for history. Rather, a study of how history has come to be understood in the way that is has - a history of history. Goes into detail : ex. issues of power, etc. How did history that we understand, come to be the history that we understand. Should we think of history as progress, from oral to literate to electronic: ex. The periodization of the world: there is talk about the other periods (60s, 70s) but dont actually understand, talking about the 60"s without understanding if they are talking about 1967, or 1960. Western-centric: early civilization, from a historiographical point of view it needs to be recognized. Inherently interdisciplinary (draws on several of the disciplines such as history, politics, and many other scholarly traditions that take various approaches on their respected issues)
