philosophy 101

Final Exam Journey: explain and answer each of these questions in your own words. No need to write in an essay format just use your own words to explain each question.

1. Explain the term “Journey”. Differences between Diversity and Inclusion? (Examples).

2. Journey, Media and Communication. Cultural Relativism and Ethnocentrism.

Media Literacy and Interpretation (Examples).

3. Culture and Communication. Intercultural Communication (Cultural Belief, Value, Attitude Systems). The Ingredients of Communication (The Source, Encoding, Message, etc.)

4. Journey and Semiotics in the novel of your own choice.

5. What is Visual Communication? Exploring Journey through Visual Communication (Film, Play, Painting and etc.). What did catch your interest? Were you able to relate to characters life style, ideas, and emotions? How did it help you better understand people or ideas from a different culture? Why did you choose this film (painting, play)?

6. Semiotics and Journey: What is Semiotics? Why study Semiotics? Cultural Semiotics.

7. The Saussurean model:

- Signifier (Examples)

- Signified concept (Examples)

- The Relational System and Propaganda (Examples)

8. The Peircean model:

- Symbolic mode (examples)

- Iconic mode (examples)

- Indexical mode (examples).

9. Understanding and defining Intermediality and Intertextuality (Examples).

10. Semiotics and Culture. Understanding and defining Semiotics/ Dialogism in the movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”. What is Existentialism?

11. A Philosophy of the Unconscious. What is Existentialism? Understanding and defining Semiotics, Dialogism, Journey in the novella “ The Metamorphosis” by F. Kafka. What is the main idea of the novella?

12. What do you know about the Theater of the Absurd?

Understanding and defining Semiotics, Dialogism, Journey in the play “Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett.

If “Waiting for Godot” is moralistic in nature, what is the moral? How does the play instruct us to lead our lives? Are these lessons subjective and personal for each viewer, or objective and universal?

13. Postmodernism and Intertextuality. Roland Barthes essay “The Death of the Author” (Why is the author dead? What kind of reader is born?).

14. Bakhtin Mikhail and his life. What is Dialogism? Journey and Dialogism.

15. “The Time and Space of Self and Other”. Explain the concepts. Examples.

16. “Outsideness and Values”. Explain the concept using any examples from a film of your choice.

17. Relativity theory and Dialogism. Explain the concept using any examples from a novel of your choice.