Exam Board

ROBERTO PELLEREY (President)

MAURO MIGLIAVACCA

SELENE D'AGOSTINO (Substitute)

Class schedule

SEMIOTICS OF ARTS AND COMMUNICATION

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Final oral interview

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The exam will consist of a part of targeted questions on the institutional section and a part of specific questions on the monographic part of the program to verify the understanding of the problems and underlying issues examined and discussed in the course, in addition to the basic principles of semiotics.

- The "understanding of the problems" will be verified through the following parameters:

- ability to abstraction on general and wider themes starting from particular issues and cases

- ability to conceptual link between particular cases and general issues

- ability to connect between different texts

- ability to critically identify common stereotypes

- capacity for criticism and any theoretical detachment from current commonplaces

- ability to form original theses starting from the cases, themes, problems examined

- ability to synthesize and display the evolutionary stages of the history of semiotics and the basic principles of semiotics

- ability to describe and examine the concepts elaborated in different theories and semiotic schools on the function of language

- ability to describe and examine the concepts elaborated in different theories and semiotic schools on the organization of human knowledge

- ability to analyze and distinguish the fundamental thematic nuclei of contemporary social and cultural phenomena examined in the course

- ability to analyze and distinguish the technical and operational procedures of the "interpretation" and "communication" processes, distinguishing the different operational models or theoretical "paradigms"

- ability to evaluate the different theories of theater, art and education and compare them with different forms of art and education

- ability to critically compare different theses and ideologies on the concepts of "development", "(economic) growth", "well-being"

- independent reasoning skills

- ability to identify the thematic nuclei of a text

- ability to compare different theses and theories on the same basic questions in different texts

- ability to explain one's choice of text in the groups of texts of one's choice

- ability to describe and discuss in detail the contents of the texts brought to the exam, in particular those which are not compulsory

- ability to understand and explain the choice for the course of the texts in the program

- ability to orientate critically between the theoretical assumptions of the texts in the program

- ability to identify a relationship between the chosen texts and one's personal interests or vocations

Exam schedule