SEM 102

This course surveys the semiotic investigation of the visual sign. Through lectures, students will learn about important studies in visual semiotics, its main researchers, models, texts, and applications. The second half of the course delivers, through a series of applied projects, an opportunity for students to critically analyze and produce visual signs in and for a variety of media including film, graphic novels, commercials, the development of logos, and other social conventions (including clothing and physical attributes).