78903 - Visual Communication (1) (LM)

Academic Year 2016/2017

  • Docente: Paolo Leonardi
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: M-FIL/05
  • Language: English
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Semiotics (cod. 8886)

Learning outcomes

After a general introduction on some Visual Communication issues, the course will concentrate on visual communication of identities, - of persons and places, and more cursorily of groups, institutions and brands.

Course contents

Narratives of people and places using images and texts.

Readings/Bibliography

Fotografia europea 2016. La via Emilia. Strade, viaggi, confini italian/english ed (Milano Silvana Editoriale 2016),

Charlotte Linde Life stories (Oxford Oxford UP 1993).

Other materials will be suggested in class.



Teaching methods

Lectures, students' presentations and discussions on previously selected materials.

 

Assessment methods

Student have to make a presentation in class and later to write a paper.  Instructions for the paper at the following url:
http://web.dfc.unibo.it/paolo.leonardi/es-scritti.html.

Teaching tools

Instructor's lectures, presentations and discussion lead by students.

Links to further information

http://web.dfc.unibo.it/paolo.leonardi/index.html

Office hours

See the website of Paolo Leonardi