KSAP-386: Maps of Places, Information and the Mind
3 credit hours
"I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future and in some way involve the stars." Jorge Luis Borges
This course will look at contemporary and historical methods and concepts involved in the illustration and mapping of places, information, and the minds. Employing the techniques of illustration, students will learn the underlying structures and philosophies of mapping while creating their own visual and conceptual maps. In computer science mapping is the connection between two entities, in geography it is a diagram that represents an area of land or sea, and according to Tony Buzan in 1974, a mind map was the use of diagrams that visually map information.