Prerequisites: none

Description: .An historical overview of the technologies and institutions which have sustained the production and transmission of knowledge from antiquity to the present. Themes include literacy and its consequences, the book, manuscript production, the printing press, mass media, the computer, and the Internet. Explores literate traditions from across the world. Credit is awarded for only one of HIST 041 or HIST 030 with subtitle: HIST: INFORMTION/COMMUNIC TECH”