This course serves to introduce students to the fundamentals of meaningful
reading, semiotics, linguistics and communication theory. We shall look at
texts from the point of view of underlying feelings and implied human
values, as well as cultural conditioning (male, racist, nationalist biases).
We shall find out what is the author telling us about him/herself often
without meaning to.

We shall analyze passages from contemporary popular as well as less popular
literature and later include some theoretical readings on semantics.
Assignments will be exercises in analyses of short passages from novels,
poems, newspapers, Bible, etc. Each student will present two short analyses
and two short essays on selected topics.