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Semiotics
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:9.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:26:13
Study Course Information | |||||||||
Course Code: | KSK_276 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
Branch of Science: | Communication Sciences | Target Audience: | Communication Science | ||||||
Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
Course Supervisor: | Sergejs Kruks | ||||||||
Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
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Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf![]() | ||||||||
Study Course Planning | |||||||||
Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 8 | ||||
Total Contact Hours | 20 | ||||||||
Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 8 | ||||
Total Contact Hours | 20 | ||||||||
Study course description | |||||||||
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Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
1 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
2 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
3 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
4 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
5 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
6 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
7 | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | ||||||
Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
1 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
2 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
3 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
4 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
5 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
6 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
7 | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | ||||||
Assessment | |||||||||
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Assessment Criteria: | |||||||||
Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
Final Examination (Part-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
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Bibliography | |||||||||
No. | Reference | ||||||||
Required Reading | |||||||||
1 | Chandler, Daniel. (2022) Semiotics. The Basics. 4th edition. London: Routledge. | ||||||||
2 | Barthes, Roland. (1997) Image/Music/Text. Fontana Press. Pp. 32-51. | ||||||||
3 | Kruks, Sergejs. (2011) Ārtelpas skulptūras semiotika, ekonomika un politika. Neputns. 21-45.lpp. | ||||||||
4 | Kruks, Sergejs. (2022) Semiotiskā analīze. | ||||||||
Additional Reading | |||||||||
1 | Kruks, S. (2012) “Semiozes izpratne latviešu avotos: Valodnieku un mākslas zinātnieku zīmes koncepciju kritika”, Letonica 23:52-66. | ||||||||
2 | Danesi, M. (2004) Messages, signs and meanings. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press. | ||||||||
3 | Floch, J.-M. (2000) Visual Identities. New York: Continuum. | ||||||||
4 | Kress, G., T. Van Leeuwen (2006) Reading Images. London: Routledge. | ||||||||
Other Information Sources | |||||||||
1 | Nöth, W. (1990) Handbook of Semiotics. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. |