FACS 1900 Lecture Notes - Edgar Degas, Microsoft Powerpoint, Edward Said

• School: York University
• Department: Fine Arts Cultural Studies
• Course: FACS 1900
• Professor: Robert Gill

Document Summary

Room: acw 206 for lecture, ace 006 for tutorial. Time: friday 11:30 to 1:30 pm for lecture, 2:30 to 3:30 for tutorial. The console is not allowing me to put the blinds down. That will be a problem with the powerpoint. It should say component 2, not component 1, should contain approximately 1000 words. Make sure you read the handout really carefully, start discussing this with your tas. I will rely on them to give you feedback about concerns and issues, if anything significant arises i will address it in the lecture. I showed you this painting last term, an image by degas. What it means to shift our focus from language to discourse. If we were to think about it in the terms that hall is discussing in the shift from language to discourse we would do something like this. According to semiotic theories we would read this picture as an image, we would read it for its meaning.