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| Date | Topics | Readings |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 12 | Introduction Study Group Formation | Leeds-Hurwiz, Introduction |
| Jan 19 | Signs | Cobley & Jansz, pp. 3-37 Leeds-Hurwiz, Chaps 1-2 |
| Jan 26 | Structures | Cobley & Jansz, pp. 38-100
Barthes, "The Rhetoric of the Image" _______, "Introduction to the Structual Analysis of Narratives" |
| Feb 2 | Codes | Cobley & Jansz, 101-172
Leeds-Hurwitz, Chap 3 Barthes, "Change the Object Itself: Mythology Today" Robert Seiler, "Selling Patriotism/Selling Beer: The Case of the "I AM CANADIAN" Commercial" |
| Feb 9 | Texts and Intertextuality | Barthes, "The Stuggle with the Angel" _______, "The Death of the Author" _______, "From Work to Text" |
| Feb 16 | Food/Clothes/Body
Menu/Restaurant Project Due | Leeds-Hurwitz, Chap 4-5
Stephen Pritchard, "Essence, Identity, Signature: Tatoos and Cultural Property" |
| Feb 23 | Everyday Life | Steven Maras, "A Semitiotics of the Proxy" Ernest Hakanen, "Lists as Social Grid: Ratings and Rankings in Everyday Life" Philip Bell, "Subjectivity and Identity: Semiotics as Psychological Explanation" |
| Mar 2 | Popular Culture | Neil Blain, "Beyond 'Media Culture': Sport as Dispersed Symbolic Activity" Ron Bishop, "Stealing Signs: A Semiotic Analysis of the Changing Nature of Professional Sports Logos" Dafna Lemish, "Spice World: Constructing Feminity the Popular Way" |
| Mar 9 | Spring Break | |
| Mar 16 | Objects/Space/Architecture | Leeds-Hurwitz, Chap 6 Ian Roderick, "Bodies, Materials, Practice: Habiting Space and Representational Limits of Latour's Semiotics of Assemblies" Gillian Fuller, "The Arrow-Directional Semiotics: Wayfinding in Transit" |
| Mar 19 | Last day to withdraw | |
| Mar 23 | Music | Barthes, "Musica Practica" _______, "The Grain of the Voice" |
| Mar 30 | Media: Print/Photography | Barthes, The Photographic Message |
| Apr 6 | Media: Film and Video | Barthes, "The Third Meaning" _______, "Diderot, Brecht, Eisenstein" |
| Apr 13 | Culture |
Leeds-Hurwitz, Chap 7 Barthes, "Writers, Intellectuals, Teachers Melissa Gregg, "Remnents of Humanism" |
| Apr 20 Apr 27 |
Study Group Presentations | |
| May 6 Friday 1-3 p.m. | Final Essays Due | |