Welcome! In this class we will be working on term-long projects and looking at some of the ideas of Roland Barthes. Translations of ideas originally written in French. Even if we can't follow the words the tone of his speech is significant;
Here's a very friendly overview of the structuralist theory we will be exploring;
Tom Nicholas doesn't get to Barthes until 15 minutes into this video but the linguistic theory that informs structuralism is good background on the origin of Barthes' concepts.
