Monash University Handbook 2010 Postgraduate - Unit
CRT4200 - Semiotics and post-structuralism
12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL
Synopsis
How to turn literary structuralist theory into a workable tool of critical analysis. Origins of structuralism and semiotics as critical systems - the Russian formalist school, C S Peirce and F de Saussure. The critique of structuralism through poststructuralism and deconstruction, especially the work of Deleuze and Guattari.
Assessment
Three essays (3000 words each): 90%
Seminar participation: 10%
Chief examiner(s)
Millicent Vladiv-Glover
Contact hours
2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week
