CSCL 5555 is also offered in Spring 2024
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Spring 2019 | CSCL 5555 Section 001: Introduction to Semiotics (55488)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Meets With:
CL 5555 Section 001
CSDS 5555 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Smith Hall 111
- Enrollment Status:
Open (4 of 7 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Problems of the nature of the sign; sign function; sign production; signifying systems as articulated in philosophy, linguistics, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and art theory. Application of semiotics to various signifying practices (literature, cinema, daily life).
- Class Description:
- This course is a rigorous introduction to the thought of the sign during this last century. The emphasis is on the word "thought", that is to say, on the way in which semiotics, far from being an isolated discipline, is essentially related to all its neighbors, including: anthropology, feminsim, linguistics, literature, marxism, philosophy, psychoanalysis. Readings include: Althusser, Austin, Barthes, Borges, Deleuze, Derrida, Eichenbaum, Foucault, Freud, Jakobson, Kristeva, Mitchell and Rose, Lacan, Levinas, Levi-Strauss, Lotman, Peirce, Saussure, Shklovsky, Wimsatt and Beardsley, Winnicott.
- Grading:
- 70% Reports/Papers
10% In-class Presentations
20% Class Participation
- Exam Format:
- Paper
- Class Format:
- 70% Lecture
30% Discussion
- Workload:
- 100-150 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
3 Paper(s)
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/55488/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 7 November 2007
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