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Visual Culture and Semiotics
Semester with CEA CAPA & UNYP Program
Prague, Czech Republic
Dates: 8/27/25 - 12/19/25
Visual Culture and Semiotics
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: University of New York in Prague
Location: Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC
Primary Subject Area: Communication
Instruction in: English
Course Code: COM306
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 300
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Prerequisites: English Composition I (ENG100)
DESCRIPTION
The course analyses the use of various elements used by image-makers and their commissioning agents, and the effects of these elements on the viewer. This course explores how pictures? whether media or fine art photographs, paintings, film stills, postcards or graphics ? are constructed, and how this construction affects how we view and interpret them. The purpose of the course is to provide students with the vocabulary, knowledge and skills necessary to analyze and interpret images within the framework of aesthetics and design, and to be able to understand the effects of these elements in terms of an image?s impact on audiences in the context of the agenda of the image-maker/commissioning agent.