tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-195066202011-04-21T17:42:41.185-07:00Anil Pintohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06319878948673386314noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19506620.post-1152962612698665732006-07-15T04:22:00.000-07:002006-07-15T04:23:32.733-07:00<p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoTitle"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-weight: bold;">DEPARTMENT OF MEDIA STUDIES</span><span style=""><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13;">Christ College, Bangalore 560029</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB"> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></b> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14;">CERTIFICATE COURSE IN SEMIOTICS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><span lang="EN-GB"> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">Course convenor:<span style=""> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Dr. William R. Da Silva</span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">Course co-ordinator:</span><span lang="EN-GB">Anil Pinto</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">60 hours, weekly 2.5 hours </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style=""> </span>3 credits</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">Time: Thursdays, 16-18.30</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">Place: Room No. 109, Main Block </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Minimum: 10<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <h1><span lang="EN-GB">INTRODUCTION</span></h1> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">This course will be useful for all working in communication, theatre and media studies; language, literature and media. In media it will be useful for analysis of subtexts, myths and ideologies in communication (ads, films, photo-magazines, television, internet etc.)</span></p><span lang="EN-GB"> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span> <h1><span lang="EN-GB">MODULES</span></h1> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">01. What is semiotics or semiology? The transition: comparative philology to semiology; philosophy of language and historical and social linguistics to linguistics.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">02. Ferdinand de Saussure: Semiology; sign, system, structure; the science of the system of signs in society (semiologie). </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">03. Charles S. Peirce:<span style=""> </span>Philosophy of sign; communicative sign; index, icon and symbol; unlimited semiosis.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">04. Claude Levi-Strauss: Structuralism and cultural anthropology (Structural linguistics, Marxism and psychoanalysis). </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">05. Vladimir V. Propp: Functional semiotics or morphology of a folktale. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">06. Roman Jakobson: Structuralism and models of communication.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">07. Structural linguistics: Robert Gleason, Noam A. Chomsky.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">08. Marxism and Structuralism: Louis Althusser.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">09. Structuralism and Psychoanalysis: Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">10. Post-structuralism: Roland Barthes; post-modernism: Jean Beaudrillard.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">11. Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">12. Philosophy of semiotics: Umberto Eco.</span></p><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span> <h1><span lang="EN-GB">WORKSHOP & PRACTICUM</span></h1> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">Applied semiotics: (structuralism, post-structuralism, post-modernism, deconstruction) language, discourse, oral and literary narratives; folk rituals, religious and political-cultural rituals, theatre and other performances; advertisements, illustrated magazines, photo printing, films, television, Internet.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">Every participant in the Course is required to apply the semiotics method (alone or in combination with other methods, explained above, or with post-modernism of Jean-Francois Lyotard and Jean Beaudrillard) to any area of communication and media and prepare a research paper of 8-10 (A4 size) pages in three stages: research proposal, first draft and final paper.</span></p><span lang="EN-GB"> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span> <h1><br /></h1><h1><span lang="EN-GB">BIBLIOGRAPHY</span></h1> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span lang="EN-GB">Daniel Chandler, <i>Semiotics for Beginners</i>, London: Routledge, 1995</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">. (The book is available online with rich hypertext references, and may be downloaded. This text will be made available to participants in the college on CD as desired). A paperback edition too is available with Routledge, London. (In India agents in Chennai; in Bangalore: Foundation Books.)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB">Chandler has an exhaustive bibliography on semiotics and related topics. Other books will be introduced in the active sessions of the course.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19506620-115296261269866573?l=willydasilva.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Anil Pintohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06319878948673386314noreply@blogger.com2