Semiotics of Listening

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Semiotics of Listening is a graduate seminar exploring listening as an active, interpretive process through which meaning is produced, mediated, and contested. Drawing on semiotics, sound studies, philosophy, and media theory, the course examines how signs are sounded, heard, interpreted, and negotiated across social, political, and aesthetic contexts. Students will engage critical texts, close listening practices, and experimental methods to rethink listening as a site of knowledge, power, and relation.