Provides an introductory vocabulary and structure regarding the history of books, bibliography, textual materiality, and printing. Topics explored will include the rise of writing, the scroll, manuscript codices, the growth of literate culture, the invention of movable type and the impact of printing on scholarship, science, and religion, the distribution and marketing of books, the rise of a reading public, the shift from hand- to machine-powered printing, and the move from printed to electronic formats. Meets the Critical Learning: HP requirement.

Degree requirement — Critical Learning: HP

1 unit — Richman

Offerings

Term	Block	Title	Instructor	Location	Student Limit/Available	Updated
Fall 2025	Block 4	Book History and Materiality	Jared Richman	TBA	25 / 25	02/22/2025