HIST 243: HIST OF COMM TECHNOLOGIES

Fall 2025 · Section 001 · CRN 14696

This course examines major transformations in forms of communication and communications technologies. It explores transitions from orality to writing, from scroll to codex, from manuscript to print, from hand-press to steam-press, and from print to digital and audio media communication. It asks how these technologies developed and what role they played in changes, in reading, writing, and thinking across the centuries. This course counts towards the electives requirement for the STSM minor.

Credits
3
Instructors
Philip Mogen

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