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MIML7680 | Semiotic Discourses in Architecture | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | Level of Course | Third Cycle | Status | Elective | Department | DEPARTMENT of ARCHITECTURE | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | Mode of Delivery | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | Lecturer | Doç. Dr. Hare KILIÇASLAN | Co-Lecturer | | Language of instruction | Turkish | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | The aim of the course: | Contribute to generation of formal, functional and artistic discourses through the use of semiotics. To enable the students to analyzing the built environment by the semiotics method depending on the communicative and meaningful facts. |
Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | PO - 1 : | Recognizing the importance of the concepts of language, meaning and communication in architecture. | 2,3 | 1,5,6, | PO - 2 : | They will be able to produce semiotic discourses by discussing elements such as meaning, image and symbol. | 2,3 | 1,5,6, | PO - 3 : | They will be able to have knowledge about the principles of semiotics and will be able to carry out semiotic analysis applications by field researches. | 2,3 | 1,5,6, | PO - 4 : | They will be able to use the semiotics method on investigating and analyze design decisions. | 2,3 | 1,5,6, | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | |
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Course Syllabus | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | Week 1 | Content of course, introduction to semiotics | | Week 2 | Basic concepts of semiotics | | Week 3 | History of semiotics | | Week 4 | Theoretical approaches of semiotics | | Week 5 | Principles of semiotics: Charles Sanders Peirce | | Week 6 | Principles of semiotics: Ferdinand de Saussure | | Week 7 | Principles of semiotics: Roland Barthes | | Week 8 | Architectural semiotics | | Week 9 | Midterm exam | | Week 10 | Analysis principles of semiotics method | | Week 11 | Analysis by semiotics method: field researches | | Week 12 | The syntactic dimension of the semiotics analysis | | Week 13 | The semantic dimension of the semiotics analysis | | Week 14 | The pragmatic dimension of the semiotics analysis | | Week 15 | Discussions about semiotics discourses in architecture and general evaluation of the course | | Week 16 | Final exam | | |
1 | Barthes, R., 2016. Göstergebilimsel Serüven, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, İstanbul. | | 2 | Akerson, F. E., 2016. Göstergebilime Giriş, Bilge Kültür Sanat Yayıncılık, İstanbul. | | 3 | Guiraud, P., 2016. Göstergebilim, İmge Kitabevi, Ankara. | | 4 | Eco, U., 2019. Mimarlık Göstergebilimi, Daimon Yayınları, İstanbul. | | 5 | Zevi, B., 2015. Mimarlığı Görebilmek, Daimon Yayınları, İstanbul. | | |
Method of Assessment | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | Mid-term exam | 9 | | | 25 | Homework/Assignment/Term-paper | 12 13 14 | | | 25 | End-of-term exam | 16 | | | 50 | |
Student Work Load and its Distribution | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 10 | 4 | 40 | Arasınav için hazırlık | 3 | 4 | 12 | Arasınav | 3 | 1 | 3 | Ödev | 15 | 4 | 60 | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 7 | 4 | 28 | Dönem sonu sınavı | 3 | 1 | 3 | Total work load | | | 188 |
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