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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
YDF 5024	GENERAL SEMIOTICS	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	7

Offered By

French Language Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR DUYGU ÖZTIN PASSERAT

Offered to

French Language Teacher Education

Course Objective

Providing the students with basic principles and theories of semiotics and with necessary theoretical knowledge about application areas of semiotics on an expert-level; and making students apply their knowledge.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	Being able to understand the basic principles and concepts of semiotics.
2	Being able to perceive semiotics as a method in generating the meaning .
3	Perceiving the role of semiotics to explain the meaning of human for human and the meaning of universe for human.
4	Being able to understand the basis of literary semiotics.
5	Being able to understand the basis of visual semiotics.
6	Being able to understand the basis of semiological discourse analysis.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	What is sign
2	Semiotics - linguistics
3	Semiotics - semiology
4	Semiotics of communication
5	Literary semiotics
6	Application areas of semiotics
7	Visual semiotics
8	General Review, Course Evaluation, Midterm Exam
9	Semiotics of the cinema
10	Semiotics of comics
11	Semiotics of advertisement
12	Semiotics and pragmatics
13	Semiotics of comics
14	Semiotics and pragmatics
15	Final

Recomended or Required Reading

Barthes Roland (1968) Rhétorique de l image , in Communications no: 4, Paris
Courtès Joseph (1991) Analyse sémiotique du discours, Hachette, Paris,
(1994) Du Lisible au Visible, initiation à la sémiotique du texte et de l image, De Boeck,
Durand Jacques (1970) « Rhétorique et l image publicitaire », in Communications no 15, Paris.
Eco Umberto (1972) La structure absente, introduction à la recherche sémiotique, Mercure de France, Paris,
Floch Jean-Marie (1982) Les langages planaires in Sémiotique. L Ecole de Paris; Paris: Hachette.
GREIMAS Algirdas Julien (1964) Sémiotique figurative et sémiotique plastique. Actes sémiotique- Documents VI, 60, Paris: C.N.R.S
GREIMAS A.J., Sémantique structurale, Larousse, 1966.
Greimas, A.J., et Courtès J., (1982) Dictionnaire Sémiotique raisonné de la théorie du langage, Hachette, Paris.
Groupe µ (1992) Traité du signe visuel, pour une rhétorique de l image, Seuil, Paris.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Expression, discussion, question-answer and presentation studies.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER	SHORT CODE	LONG CODE	FORMULA
1	MTE	MIDTERM EXAM
2	STT	TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3	FIN	FINAL EXAM
4	FCG	FINAL COURSE GRADE	MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.40 + FIN * 0.40
5	RST	RESIT
6	FCGR	FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT)	MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.40 + RST * 0.40

*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

French

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

doztin@yahoo.fr duygu.oztin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Ders Anlatımı	13	3	39
Haftalık Ders öncesi/sonrası hazırlıklar	13	3	39
Final Sınavına Hazırlık	1	25	25
Ödev Hazırlama	1	25	25
Sunum Hazırlama	1	25	25
Vize Sınavına Hazırlık	1	25	25
Diğer Kısa Sınav	1	3	3
Vize Sınavı	1	3	3
Final Sınavı	1	3	3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			187

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO	PO.1	PO.2	PO.3	PO.4	PO.5	PO.6	PO.7	PO.9	PO.10	PO.12
LO.1	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4		4
LO.2	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
LO.3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
LO.4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	4		4
LO.5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4		4	4
LO.6	4	4	4	4	4	4	4		4

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Description of Individual Course Units

Offered By

Level of Course Unit

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Course Objective

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

Recomended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Assessment Criteria

Language of Instruction

Course Policies and Rules

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Office Hours

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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