GRAD > APLING > 624

Language and the Media: Semiotics, Representations, and Discursive Formation

Description:
This course is designed to introduce the student to the history and current research in the study of symbols, signs and images (visual language) that function in the various media of popular culture as a formative means of communication. The course will explore the production and exchange of meanings and circulating signifying systems by introducing the student to important schools of thought in this area of analysis. We will analyze the language/symbolic orders used in news media, comedy, television advertising, children's cartoons, music video, situation comedies, soap operas, magazine photos, music lyrics, museum exhibits and history as text. In exploring how formative systems of representation set the rules, norms, and conventions by which social life is ordered and governed, this course will offer curricular insights for the language/multicultural classroom by presenting a cultural studies approach to formal pedagogy.

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