Semiotics

The ELTE interdisciplinary semiotics MA programme educates students to become well-trained specialists in semiotics of culture with a global overview of the various fields of humanities: literary studies, linguistics, philosophy, visual arts and general art studies – including approaches to fine arts, films, theatre and music – and also the most contemporary methods of their research synthetised under a semiotic methodological point of view. At the same time, choosing the specific field for their diploma work, students can gain a specialised knowledge in one subfield of the semiotics of humanities (e.g. literary semiotics, visual semiotics, musical semiotics, theoretical semiotics, ethnosemiotics, etc.). The program is flexible to motivate students to find the best Hungarian specialists in the given field and help them to be involved in international research contexts and dialogues with foreign scholars and professors. The curriculum (in detail see attached) consists of courses on the history and theory of semiotics; language, communication, texts and translation; theory of meaning, logic, argumentation; field studies of cultural, national and special semiotic systems; various forms of applied semiotics and semiotic pragmatics in general. The program also lays emphasis on the preparation of students entering PhD studies to plan their research career