Had problems enrolling in the archaeology units, I think because my undergraduate degree didn't offer the required prerequisites but later study did, so it had to be validated by a person, and I'd already enrolled late because I received all the paperwork after the period for online enrollments had closed.
Then the CD with the topic on it had to be posted out.
And, of course, I was away for a good part of last week.
Which means that by the time I got to actualy looking at the subject matter, it was up to week three or four.
Now this unit is divided into 4 bits -- the emergence of language, of writing, of printing and other. There are four assessment things, not counting the quiz, an essay, a seminar/analysis of a website, and two contributions to post on the bulletin board. If I've read it right, you have to cover the four subjects in those four assignments thingies. So an essay on one subject, the seminar on one and a BB contribution on the remaining too. I'd missed the due date for the language seminar, and the bulletin board for it closes at the end of this week. Lanugage development in hominids, based on evidence from apes and people learning new languages and various theories that linguists have come up with is not a topic I particularly want to write 3000 words on. In fact, I was hoping to avoid anything to do with hominids and their friends. The only alternative was to cram in enough of the reading in two days so I could manage to write a coherent BB post before the end of the week. Which I did. I might even be able to tell you something of what I read. It's a rather simplistic post, but it's done.
Now I have room to breathe before getting into the origins of writing.
