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Spring 2020 | CSCL 5555 Section 001: Introduction to Semiotics (54880)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 345
- Enrollment Status:
Closed (15 of 15 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:
- Perhaps it is no wonder that thinkers across the ages have tried to grasp the nature of signs and the processes through which we produce meaning. Indeed, no aspect of human existence escapes human efforts to make sense of the world. Yet, although meaning-making has long been a recurrent preoccupation for philosophers and poets alike, semiotics as a specific study of signs, meaning and interpretation is a relatively recent academic field. Its rise and development largely coincide with 20th century research in linguistics, psychology, anthropology and critical theory. This course outlines some of the main orientations in semiotic thought. After a brief overview of major precursors (Plato, Aristotle, Augustine…), the course explores the main "schools" of European semiotics with an emphasis on Saussurian semiotics, the Prague School, Soviet semiotics and post-structuralist thought. Moreover, rather than confining the discussion on signs as such, the course will highlight the link between semiotic thought and interpretation as practiced and theorized in the realms of aesthetics, media, social/political discourse and daily life.
Authors discussed include (but are not limited to) Barthes, Borges, Derrida, Eco, Foucault, Freud, Groupe µ, Hjelmslev, Jakobson, Kristeva, Levi-Strauss, Peirce, Saussure, Seboek.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54880/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 5 October 2019
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