Semiotics and Art History

Course Information
TitleΣημειωτική και ιστορία της τέχνης / Semiotics and Art History
CodeΕΜ-1
Interdepartmental ProgrammeSemiotics, Culture and Communication
Collaborating SchoolsFrench Language and Literature
Italian Language and Literature
Journalism and Mass Communications
Architecture
Cycle / Level2nd / Postgraduate
Teaching PeriodWinter
CommonNo
StatusActive
Course ID600014984

Programme of Study: Semiotics, Culture and Communication

Registered students: 12
OrientationAttendance TypeSemesterYearECTS
KORMOSElective CoursesWinter/Spring-7.5

Class Information
Academic Year2023 – 2024
Class PeriodWinter
Faculty Instructors
Instructors from Other Categories
Class ID
600244624
Course Type 2011-2015
Specific Foundation / Core
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
  • Greek (Instruction, Examination)
  • English (Instruction, Examination)
Prerequisites
General Prerequisites
This is an introductory course
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to discuss concepts, arguments and texts related to semiotic approaches to the history of art, to the theory of images, to cultural history
General Competences
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Adapt to new situations
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in teams
  • Work in an interdisciplinary team
  • Generate new research ideas
  • Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
  • Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
  • Be critical and self-critical
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
The course examines semiotic approaches to art history, image theory, cultural history
Keywords
cultural semiotis, semiotics of the image, semiotics in art history
Educational Material Types
  • Notes
  • Slide presentations
  • Multimedia
  • Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures20
Seminars10
Laboratory Work
Reading Assigment50
Project8
Written assigments100
Total188
Student Assessment
Description
Uninterrupted attendance Participation in classroom discussions Presentation in class Written essay
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Assignment (Formative, Summative)
  • Oral Exams (Formative)
  • Performance / Staging (Formative, Summative)
  • Report (Formative)
Bibliography
Additional bibliography for study
1. Barthes, R. (1972 [1957]). Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation (translated by Αnnette Lavers). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2. Berger, John (1972). Ways of Seeing. London: Penguin Books. 3. Sonesson, Gοran (2004). "The globalization of ego and alter: An essay in cultural semiotics", Semiotica 148(1): 153–173. 4. Manovich, Lev (2015). "Data Science and Digital Art History". DAH-Journal 1: 13-35. 5. Theodor Adorno and Max Horkneimer "The Culture Industry". Aπόσπασμα από το Dialectic of Enlightenment, Νέα Υόρκη 1993, (α' έκδοση στα γερμανικά Dialektik der Aufklaerung, 1944) 6. Krauss, Rosalind (1981). "In the Name of Picasso". Art World Follies: 5-22. 7. Bal, Mieke& Norman Bryson (1991). "Semiotics and Art History". The Art Bulletin 73(2): 174-208. 8. Mulvey, Laura (1975). "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema". Screen 16(3): 6–18. 9. Sarapik, Virve (2013). Semiotics at the crossroads of art". Semiótica 195: 69-95. 10. Sontag, Susan (2003). Regarding the Pain of Others. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Last Update
29-11-2023