| Description: | This course examines the problems associated with perception, understanding, interpretation and creation of visual representations. In other words, it explores how it is possible to improve the way we perceive and understand all the messages that we receive constantly, messages based mostly upon visual patterns. Signs and their meaning, the construction of reality, codes and codification, mythology and ideology, semiotics of art and mass media will be the topics raised by this course. The course includes an introduction to the language of representation, through the analysis and comprehension of concepts such as rhetoric, narrative, stereotype and genre. |