Study Programmes 2015-2016
LROM0151-1  
Visual semiotics
Duration :
30h Th
Number of credits :
Bachelor in information and communication4
Bachelor in history of art and archaeology : general4
Bachelor in history of art and archaeology : general4
Bachelor in history of art and archaeology : general5
Master in modern languages and literatures : German, Dutch and English (120 ECTS)5
Master in linguistics (120 ECTS)5
Master in linguistics (120 ECTS)5
Master in modern languages and literatures : general (120 ECTS)5
Master in French and Romance languages and literatures : general (120 ECTS)5
Master in French and Romance languages and literatures : general (120 ECTS)5
Master in French and Romance languages and literatures : general (120 ECTS)5
Master in French and Romance languages and literatures : general (120 ECTS)5
Master in French and Romance languages and literatures : general (60 ECTS)5
Lecturer :
Maria Giulia Dondero
Language(s) of instruction :
French language
Organisation and examination :
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Course contents :
  • Theories of visual signification: semiotics of the Paris School (Algirdas Julien Greimas, Jacques Fontanille) and the Groupe µ.
  • Visual grammar: topology, form, colour, texture.
  • Analysis of images of artistic, advertising, documentary and scientific status.
  • Operating concepts: visual enunciation, visual text, semisymbolic code, plastic/figurative/iconic texts; metavisual. Autography and Allography by N. Goodman.
  • The example of photography - between the arts and sciences.
Learning outcomes of the course :
  • 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).
Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
None
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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
Recommended or required readings :
Required readings: Sémiotique de la photographie, P. Basso Fossali and MG Dondero, Limoges, Pulim, 2011 (from p. 19 to p. 142).
MG Dondero,"Le Soliloque en photographie", accessible at this address: http://cri-image.univ-paris1.fr/dondero.html, 2006. 
MG Dondero, "Les aventures du corps et de l'identité dans la photographie de mode", accessible at this address: http://epublications.unilim.fr/revues/as/4979, 2014.
H. R. Shairi & J. Fontanille,"Approche sémiotique du regard photographique: deux empreintes de l'Iran contemporain",  accessible at this address: http://www.unilim.fr/pages_perso/jacques.fontanille/articles_pdf/visuel/semiotiqueregarddanslesphotosorientales.pdf, 2001.
F. Thürlemann, "Blumen-Mythos (1918) de P. Klee", Ateliers de sémiotique visuelle, publication supervised by A. Hénault and A. Beyaert-Geslin, Paris, P.U.F, 2004. 
Assessment methods and criteria :
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.
Work placement(s) :
Organizational remarks :
Some authors of articles will be invited to give presentations.
Contacts :
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