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| LROM0151-1 | Visual semiotics
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Number of credits : |
| Bachelor in Information and Communication, 3rd year | | First semester | | 4 |
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| Bachelor in History of Art and Archeology, General, 3rd year | | First semester | | 5 |
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| One-year preliminary programme leading to the Master in Performing Arts | | First semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Research Focus , 1st year | | First semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Linguistics, Research focus, 1st year | | First semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General, Research Focus, 1st year | | First semester | | 5 |
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| Master in French and Romance Languages and Literatures: General, Research Focus, 1st year | | First semester | | 5 |
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| Master in French and Romance Languages and Literatures, General orientation, Teaching Focus , 1st year | | First semester | | 5 |
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| Master in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : General, Professional Focus in French as a Second Language (réforme du master PMFRAN), 1st year | | First semester | | 5 |
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| Master in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : General | | First semester | | 5 |
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| Lecturer : | Maria Giulia Dondero |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Course contents :
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- Theories of visual signification: semiotics of the Paris School (Algirdas Julien Greimas, Jacques Fontanille, Anne Beyaert-Geslin) and the Groupe µ.
- Analysis of images of artistic, advertising, documentary and scientific status.
- Operating concepts: visual enunciation, visual, semisymbolic, plastic, figurative, and iconic texts.
- Visual grammar: form, topology, colour, texture.
- The example of photography - between the arts and sciences.
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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- Initiating students into theoretical and methodological issues of visual semiotics.
- Giving students the tools to analyse and interpret visual languages in different fields of use (artistic, scientific, advertising).
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| None |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Duration and period: 30 hours teaching in the 1st term.
Location and times of teaching: Salle Wittert, Mondays from 4pm to 6.30pm. See http://cipl82.philo.ulg.ac.be/horaires
(http://cipl82.philo.ulg.ac.be/horaires) |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Sémiotique de la photographie, P. Basso Fossali and MG Dondero, Limoges, Pulim (from p. 19 to p. 142).
"Le Soliloque en photographie", MG Dondero, accessible at this address:
http://cri-image.univ-paris1.fr/dondero.html
Ateliers de sémiotique visuelle, publication supervised by Anne Hénault and Anne Beyaert-Geslin, Paris, P.U.F, 2004. In particular:
Chapter I: Blumen-Mythos (1918) by P. Klee, Felix Thürlemann
Chapter XI: La couleur, la profondeur, les sensations. Quelques intérieurs de Matisse, Anne Beyaert-Geslin. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Assessment consists of a written exam. The exam includes seven open questions plus an analysis of a text (photographic, pictorial). The focus is not upon the ability to reproduce the minute details of this subject, but about the understanding and application of knowledge. Corrected copies can be consulted by students in the lecturer's office. |
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Organizational remarks :
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| Some authors of articles will be invited to give presentations. |
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Contacts :
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| Lecturer
Maria Giulia Dondero, FRS-FNRS research associate at the Department for Roman Languages and Literature
3-5 Place Cockerill, 4000 Liège, tel. 04.366.5946.
Secretariat: Tel. 04 366 56 50 |
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