Cunei-Lab: An Introduction to Cuneiform - Badge
Name
Cunei-Lab: An Introduction to Cuneiform.
Issuer
University Ca' Foscari Venezia.
Issued since 20 April 2016.
Description
This Badge is earned by learners participating in the course "Cunei-Lab: An Introduction to Cuneiform" offered by EduOpen. The Badge is to all intents and purposes the course’s certificate of attendance.
Badge Criteria
The owner of this badge has attended the MOOC "Cunei-Lab: An introduction to cuneiform writing ", completing all the included video-lessons. He has completed all the course related activities, here included the video-challenge and practical video-exercises. He has completed the final tests of each unit; the passing mark is 7/10. He has obtained the certificate of completion.
Skills
The owner of this Badge participated in and successfully completed the course "Cunei-Lab: An Introduction to Cuneiform", with the following results. The MOOC "Cunei-Lab: An introduction to Cuneiform" is an introduction to the study of cuneiform writing. Those attending and completing this course have learnt the followingNotions: - what is cuneiform, when, where and for which languages it was used; - how was cuneiform deciphered; how cuneiform came into being and how it developed; - how scribes learnt cuneiform, and what they wrote; - what is the relationship between the writing medium and its content. Abilities: - to recognize, at a basic level, the different values of cuneiform signs and to distinguish between them; - to use, at a basic level, a sign-list; - to understand the specific features of the relationship existing between the writing medium and the process of writing, producing a first basic specimen of inscribed clay tablet.
Tags
ArtsandHumanities, Cuneiformscript, Assyriology