History and Theory of Communication

Code:

HTC201

Acronym:

HTC

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Arts

Instance: 2022/2023 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Ciências da Arte e do Design
Course/CS Responsible:	Communication Design

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
DC	70	Plano de estudos de LDC_publicaçao em DR de 24/05/2022	2	-	3	30	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This UC intends to discuss with the student population
some historical moments in human communication since the
advent of humanity and to present the main theoretical
ways of seeing communication since the beginning of
the 20th century of our era.

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of the semester, the student should be able to:
-Identify macro-events and communicational micro-phenomena, in a diachronic and synchronic perspective;
-Re-examine communicational situations and postulates in the light of semiotics;
-Problematize the crises that cross the dualities of orality and writing, verbal and non-verbal, vision and reading and medium and message.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Communication as a polissemic concept:
-Communication as a "natural" phenomenon of human communities;
-Communication as an object of scientific investigation;
-Communication as a paradigm
-Communication as pragmatics

Sign value and symbols



The status(es) of  reception

Mandatory literature

Baudrillard, Jean; Simulacros e Simulação. ISBN: 972-708-141-X
Berger, Peter; A Construção Social da Realidade. ISBN: 9789725765708
Certeau Michel de ; A Invenção do Cotidiano. ISBN: 85.326.1148-6
Goffman, Erving; A Apresentação do Eu na Vida de Todos os Dias. ISBN: 9789727082056
Hall, Edward T.; A Dimensão Oculta. ISBN: 9789727081233
Derrick de Kerckhove; A^Pele da cultura. ISBN: 972-708-341-2
Luhmann, Niklas; A Improbabilidade da Comunicação. ISBN: 9789726993490
Mattelart, Armand; História das Teorias da Comunicação. ISBN: 9789726100027
Watzlawick, Paul, et.al.; Pragmática da Comunicação Humana. ISBN: 9788531603143

Complementary Bibliography

Barthes, Roland; Mitologias. ISBN: 9789724412924
Débord, Guy; A Sociedade do Espectáculo. ISBN: 972-716-002-6
Edeline, Francis; Entre la Lettre et l'Image: à la recherche d'aun lieu commun. ISBN: 9782806105509
Freixo, Manuel João Vaz; Teorias e Modelos de Comunicação. ISBN: 972-771-841-8
Moura, Mário; O Design que o Design Não Vê. ISBN: 978-989-9071-16-2
Rancière, Jacques; O Espectador Emancipado. ISBN: 978-989-8327-06-2

Teaching methods and learning activities

Expository and participatory methods.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	20,00
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	30,00
Exame	10,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	51,00
Frequência das aulas	30,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

Qualified participation in class discussions and
attendance of at least 75% of classes

Calculation formula of final grade

Appreciation of activities in class and group work.

The small essay should have as a reference the concerns
of the UC and the approaches developed in the classes
as well as the possible articulations explored by the
students.

Oral presentation:

The small essay should establish a discussion plan that
will be oraly presented by the group in the classroom
context.



Exam (individual essay + group book):

Based on this discussion plan, an individual text should
be written by each member of the group, constituting a
section of a book organized by the group.
The book must be delivered on the day set during the
exam period.

The appeal exam focuses on the subjects and work
developed in class and consists of an individual essay
with about 2000 words.