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Toronto, Ontario
This course will provide a basic introduction to Semiotics by tracing its development from Saussurian linguistics and by examining various theories of such semioticians as Roland Barthes, C.S. Peirce, Umberto Eco, A.J. Greimas and others. Systems of verbal and non-verbal communication in areas such as advertising, cinema, gesture, language, art, literature and the media will be studied.
One essay each term; in-class test at end of the first term; final examination.
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