2024-2025 Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog [In Progress]
COM 477 - History of Communications Technologies
Introduces students to historical impacts communication technologies have had in shaping and sustaining civilization and modernity. Examines communicative media as extensions of the human habitat, and critically considers their social and personal consequences. At least half of the course focuses on media prior to the telegraph. Offered winter semester. Prerequisite: COM 101.
Credits: 3