Introduction

Greetings!

My name is Ruth Curran, I am in my third year at UMW, and I am majoring in History. Some of my favorite things include hiking, riding, yoga, meditation, health/wellness, reading, and spending time with my sons. I am interested in how the History of the age of information has progressed over time and what kind of influence various advances in the spread of information had over communities of people in their time period.

One piece of advice I plan on using from previous students of this course is: “Be realistic about the assignments you create. You will have to actually do them. The more specific you can be about the details, the better your project is likely to turn out.” 

I really like this assignment:

1. Or conveying a message through other form of early communication: cuneiform, hieroglyphics, old Norse runes, smoke signals, Chinese calligraphy, etc.

I would definitely be interested in doing this as an assignment. I think it would be really fascinating to see how Norse runes work.