Semiotics of Images

COA Advanced Television Production (3.0); 3 cr. This course fosters This course introduces students to semiotic tools that would enable them to analyze and understand visual culture texts, pictures, and multimodal texts. It will draw on historical and contemporary examples from new media, television, film, and other forms of visual communication. The objective is to critically analyze and interpret visual phenomena with an understanding of the underlying cultural and political power structures.