We will explore the painstaking discoveries and efforts of titans such as Champollion (Hieroglyphics), Rawlinson (Cuneiform), and Ventris (Mycenaean Linear B), without which the architecture of decipherment, and resulting history of ideas, would never have been possible.Ĭourse Description:This course takes a look at the concept of exiled authors and their different perspectives on belonging/ non belonging for having to live permanently between two spaces the land of exile and the homeland.In this course we will focus more on thematic rather than structural aspects of such literary work.Ĭourse Description: The Tudor sixteenth century is one of the most fascinating yet challenging periods in English history, even as it was England’s most formative. We will begin with Egyptian Hieroglyphs ( Rosetta Stone) to Maya Script, covering Persian, Cypriot, Luvian, and Linear B, to name a few, and consider the impact decipherment has had on opening the gate to ancient languages.

Chute, in this class we’ll also play games, and ladder on, we may even create our own! LITERATUREĬourse Description: This course will study the history of decipherment as the means by which we make unknown writing systems known in order to translate and then interpret texts.

We’ll play with time travel to examine games from different eras-did you know a board game was found in King Tut’s tomb?! And we’ll study the way in which the ‘same’ game can look quite different in another country, and what that, what all of this, can reveal to us about society and culture… We’re going to have fun figuring out what the Art of the Game reveals to us and reveals about us.

Course Description: In this class, we’ll consider the Art, literally, of games and gaming, and the way that those visual elements tell a story – a story which sometimes parallels the narrative of the game itself and at other times tells a completely different tale, revealing something that little sheet of rules doesn’t… We’ll study games in different mediums: from board games to backyard games, card games to cyber-games.

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