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Faculty Course: Semiotics as Theory and Method, 7.5 credits

Swedish name: Profilkurs: Semiotik som teori och metod
This syllabus is valid: 2022-01-03 valid to 2023-01-01 (newer version of the syllabus exists)
Syllabus for courses starting before 2023-01-01
Course code: 1PK006
Credit points: 7.5
Education level: Second cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level: No main field: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail
Responsible department: Department of Language Studies
Established by: Faculty director of studies, Faculty of arts, 2021-09-09

Contents

The course introduces semiotics as an interdisciplinary approach, focusing on the concepts of sign, meaning, communication, culture, cognition, etc. The course discusses various theories and research areas within semiotics, e.g., cultural semiotics, cognitive semiotics, visual and social semiotics. Basing on these theories, the student writes a semiotic analysis of a certain phenomenon and presents it in a written and oral form.
The course consists of two parts:
Semiotics I (discussion), 5 credits
Semiotics II (oral presentation and final assignment), 2,5 credits

Required Knowledge

Proficiency in English equivalent to Swedish upper secondary course English B/6
one of the following alternatives:
1) Bachelor's degree (180 ECTS)
2) 90 ECTS, of which at least 7,5 ECTS must come from an independent project, or equivalent qualifications

Literature

Valid from: 2022 week 1

Chandler Daniel
Semiotics : the basics
Third edition : Abingdon : Routledge : [2017] : xviii, 331 pages :
ISBN: 9781138232921
Mandatory
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Cobley Paul
The communication theory reader
London : Routledge : 1996 : xii, 506 s. :
ISBN: 0415147166
Mandatory
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As well as material given by the teacher.