SOC 301: Contemporary Visual Culture
 
Syllabus
 
Assignments:
Reserve Reading Assignment 1
First Critique
First Critique Help Sheet
Research Paper Assignment
Week 9 Class Assignment
Second Critique
Comic Book Reading Assignment
Absent Assignment
Final Project
 
Required Readings:
Signs and Language
Semiotics of New Media Literacy
Semiological Terms
Excerpt from "Rhetoric of the Image" (analysis of Panzani pasta ad)
"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
 
Supplemental Links:
Roland Barthes
Semiotics for Beginners: Glossary of Key Terms
Semiotics for Beginners: Denotation, Connotation and Myth
The Po-Mo Page: Postmodern, Postmodernism, Postmodernity
Postmodern Thought
Classics in the History of Psychology: Freud
 
Library Resources:
Visual Culture Resources
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