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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> upac-request@list.arizona.edu [mailto:upac-request@list.arizona.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Vega, Monica J De Soto - (movega)<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 09, 2014 10:55 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> upac@list.arizona.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [UPAC] English 306 (Topic: Writing Beyond the Alphabet)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">ENGL306 SEC 003 (<span class="pseditboxdisponly">94456) Advance Composition</span></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="pseditboxdisponly"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Topic: Writing Beyond the Alphabet</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span class="pseditboxdisponly"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Instructor: Damian Baca, Assistant Professor, English</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">TR 2:00-3:15PM in BIO SCI EAST 314</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Common assumptions about written communication depend upon the alphabet as a</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">precondition for literacy. By privileging alphabets, pictographic and non-verbal</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">writing systems become obscured. In order to account a plurality of transmission</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">practices, this class will forward a broad definition of “writing,” notably including</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Aztec pictography, the Andean khipu system of knotted cords, and digital media</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">communications. The class will offer a new perspective on approaches to writing that</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">supports historically sound accounts of how recorded information changes across</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">cultures and time in Mesoamerica and other regions across the globe. Beyond</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">emerging trends in digital humanities, we will investigate “new” ways of reading,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">writing, and learning, with the aim of fundamentally altering the character of 21st</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">century education.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thank you,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Mónica De Soto Vega</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Senior Program Coordinator</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Writing Program</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Department of English</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">520-621-3553</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:movega@email.arizona.edu">movega@email.arizona.edu</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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