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This document was originally written in French as a supplement to an academic course taught in the first semester of the academic year 2020 - 2021. The main goal was to lead students to see the link between semiotics, semiology, and linguistics, as well as some of their main terms and how they evolved over time. While semiology is stable, semiotics is presented in different forms: Briefly under philosophy to highlight how ancient it is, and as a generality to spark curiosity and encourage students to learn more about the topic, then according to the first account of C.S Peirce with an eye toward the three types of signs and some ideas that were ahead of their times in his era, and later as an art after it was a science as an introduction to some of the post-structural ideas which will be needed thereafter to understand the raison d’être of fields that fall into it. This course is more suitable for license students following an LMD course and its equivalent in the anglosphere, bachelor’s degree.