www.ut.ee/semioticsma • Graduates can apply their expertise in the professions that require a complex knowledge of cultural analysis, i.e. semiotic consulting companies, marketing or media. • Practical applications of semiotics include translation and scientific research, design and architecture, advertising, and communication strategies. • Employees of international organizations, e.g. embassies, where tolerance and conflict management skills are vital, can improve their professional education. • Programme graduates can continue on to doctoral studies and research. Semiotics is particularly relevant to advanced study in the life sciences, where biosemiotic understanding and semiotical interpretation is proving to be of remarkable value. Why Semiotics Excellent international career prospects SEMIOTICS Master of Arts in Humanities • 2-year interdisciplinary programme • • Instruction in English • Scholarships • Theory of semiotics • Cultural semiotics: media, art • Sociosemiotics: communication, subculture studies • Biosemiotics: zoo- and ecosemiotics Semiotics is the science of revealing sign systems by identifying the limits of any given discourse. Sign processes, or semiosis, make the world meaningful. Independent of the object of enquiry, whether in the humanities or the hard sciences, semiotics provides the tools for rendering explicit the observer-dependent status of enquiry. Semiotics negotiates the subjectivity of the researcher across all academic practices. Semiotics is thus a general methodology for humanities and life sciences. The programme provides an interdisciplinary background and gives a theoretical base for the application of semiotic ideas to a wide variety of disciplines and scientific study. Why study Semiotics in Tartu The University of Tartu is one of the key semiotic centres in the academic world today. The tradition of excellence in semiotic theory in Tartu was established by Juri Lotman in 1960s, the founder of semiotics of culture and the Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School, as well as the oldest journal of semiotics, Sign Systems Studies. Kalevi Kull, Professor of Biosemiotics Montana Salvoni (student from USA): I came to semiotics interested in the study of meaning, and to Tartu with the wish to live abroad. I found a programme and a city with personality - both are unique, stimulating, and independent. Most students have to choose between living where they want and studying what they want, but Tartu is the center of current semiotic research and a beautiful city with a thriving, open culture. So both of my wishes came true here.
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www.ut.ee/semioticsma
• Graduates can apply their expertise in the professions that require a complex knowledge of cultural analysis, i.e. semiotic consulting companies, marketing or media.
• Practical applications of semiotics include translation and scienti�c research, design and architecture, advertising, and communication strategies.
• Employees of international organizations, e.g. embassies, where tolerance and con�ict management skills are vital, can improve their professional education.
• Programme graduates can continue on to doctoral studies and research. Semiotics is particularly relevant to advanced study in the life sciences, where biosemiotic understanding and semiotical interpretation is proving to be of remarkable value.
Why Semiotics
Excellent international career prospects
S E M I O T I C SMaster of Arts in Humanities
• 2-year interdisciplinary programme • • Instruction in English• Scholarships
• Theory of semiotics • Cultural semiotics: media, art • Sociosemiotics: communication, subculture studies• Biosemiotics: zoo- and ecosemiotics
Semiotics is the science of revealing sign systems by identifying the limits of any given discourse. Sign processes, or semiosis, make the world meaningful.Independent of the object of enquiry, whether in the humanities or the hard sciences, semiotics provides the tools for rendering explicit the observer-dependent status of enquiry. Semiotics negotiates the subjectivity of the researcher across all academic practices. Semiotics is thus a general methodology for humanities and life sciences.The programme provides an interdisciplinary background and gives a theoretical base for the application of semiotic ideas to a wide variety of disciplines and scienti�c study.
Why study Semiotics in TartuThe University of Tartu is one of the key semiotic centres in the academic world today. The tradition of excellence in semiotic theory in Tartu was established by Juri Lotman in 1960s, the founder of semiotics of culture and the Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School, as well as the oldest journal of semiotics, Sign Systems Studies.
Kalevi Kull, Professor of Biosemiotics
Montana Salvoni (student from USA): I came to semiotics interested in the study of meaning, and to Tartu with the wish to live abroad. I found a programme and a city with personality - both are unique, stimulating, and independent. Most students have to choose between living where they want and
studying what they want, but Tartu is the center of current semiotic research and a beautiful city
with a thriving, open culture. So both of my wishes came true here.
Tuition fees and scholarships:Theprogrammefeeof€3520/yearcoverstuition,somestudymaterials,supervisionandadvisingofthesispreparation.Alimitednumberofscholarshipswillbeawardedtoqualifiedapplicants.