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Fall and Spring Semester course
description
Note: multiple universities offer
the same courses. Please refer to the course registration
form per university for more details.
1.
Rhodes of the Hellenistic Period
2. History of the Hellenistic Period
3. Byzantine Art History
4. Introduction to Greek Mythology
5. Study of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean
6. Family Theory
7. History of the Minoan and Mycenaean
Period
8. Introduction to Psychology
9. Developmental Psychology:
Child and adolescent development
10. Writing for Print
11. Writing for Broadcast
12. Interviewing; Writing Personality
Profiles for the Print Media
13. Interviewing; Talk, Interview and
Discussion Programs
14. Political Psychology
15. Greek Design and Architecture: History,
Theory and Practice
16. Elements of European Community Law
17. Labor Market Institutions and Human
Resource Management in the UE and the USA
18. European Union and the Greek Corporations
19. International Economic Law &
Law of International Transactions
20. Global Financial Management
21. European Union: Institutions
and Politics
22. International Relations
and the Democratization in SE Europe
23. European Economic Integration
and Labor Market
24. Economic History of Greece
25. Archaeology of ancient Greece
26. Ancient Greek History
27. Ancient Greek II
1. Rhodes of
the Hellenistic Period
The visitor of
the island of Rhodes today will be surprised at the
weight that is given to the image of Rhodes during the
Byzantine and medieval era’s. The impressive remains
of Rhodes from those periods, still alive in the medieval
town (The Old Town, as the locals know it) aid the cultivation
of this interest. However, the acme of Rhodes was during
the Hellenistic period (during the reign and after the
death of Alexander the Great). The aim of this course
is to introduce the students to the illustrious military,
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2. History of the Hellenistic
Period
The Hellenistic period is conventionally said to extend
from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.
to the death of Cleopatra VII of Egypt in 30 B.C.
The beginning of this story is marked by Alexander's
successful invasion of the Persian Empire and its
end by the division of the Near and Middle East between
Rome and the new Iranian-ruled kingdom of Parthia.
For much of the intervening three hundred years the
territory of the former Persian Empire was dominated
by a series of Macedonian-ruled kingdoms in which
Greeks and Greek culture enjoyed unprecedented pre-eminence.
Art and literature flourished, the foundations of
Western literary scholarship were laid, and Greek
scientists formulated ideas of theories that would
remain fundamental to work in a variety of fields
until the Renaissance.
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3. Byzantine
Art History
The course is a survey of Byzantine Art in its historical
evolution and its forms as they expressed themselves:
wall paintings, mosaics, icons, manuscripts etc. The
course also investigates the special relationship
of church and state in the Byzantine Empire. Such
a relationship had a major influence in the development
of Byzantine art, the clearest and most eloquent expression
of Byzantine culture and civilization.
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4. Introduction to
Greek Mythology
Myth is a complex cultural phenomenon that can be
approached from a number of viewpoints. In general,
myth is a narrative that describes and portrays in
symbolic language the origin of the basic elements
and assumptions of a culture. Mythic narrative relates,
for example, how the world began, how humans and animals
were created, and how certain customs, gestures, or
forms of human activities originated.
Almost all cultures possess or at
one time possessed and lived in terms of myths. Myths
differ from fairy tales in that they refer to a time
that is different from ordinary time (see Folktales).
The time sequence of myth is extraordinary—an
“other” time—the time before the
conventional world came into being. Because myths
refer to an extraordinary time and place and to gods
and other supernatural beings and processes, they
have usually been seen as aspects of religion. Because
of the all-encompassing nature of myth, however, it
can illuminate many aspects of individual and cultural
life.
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5. Study of Ancient
Eastern Mediterranean
The course is a study of the environmental changes,
cultural characteristics, emergence and decline of
cultures and populations, catastrophic phenomena and
their impact in the decline or migration of populations,
namely earthquakes, floods, volcano explosions, pests,
extraterrestrial impacts, meteorites, comet impacts,
etc. in the region of the Mediterranean through antiquity.
Special themes cover the lost Atlantis,
the Thera volcano catastrophe, the Minoan and Mycenaean
civilization collapse, archaic-geology landscapes
and ancient civilizations, the ancient Eliki, the
Argolid cases, the Trojan war and the Scamandros landscapes,
etc.
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6. Family
Theory
The course aims at offering a presentation of the
major theoretical underpinnings of the current family
therapy schools. The course is divided in three
thematic areas:
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Historical account
of the family therapy theories. This part refers
to the factors that that led social scientists
to intensive research on family.
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Presentation of
the underpinnings of General systems theory as
the theoretical frame of all schools of family
therapy.
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Presentation of
the theoretical underpinnings of the basic schools
of family therapy: Communication school of Palo
Alto, Minutchin’s Structural school, Bowenean
school and the latest inspired by social constructivism.
Analysis of family interaction
will be presented through the projection of videotapes.
Discussion groups will be organized after each projection.
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7. History of the
Minoan and Mycenaean Period
The course is a historical survey of Pre-Hellenic
and early Hellenic history with a concentration
to the Minoan and the Mycenaean civilizations. We
will study phenomena such as the rise of the city-states,
the political structure of the Minoan and Mycenaean
state, their architecture, and society, religion,
economy and burial rites. We will follow the historical
evolution of the Mycenaean civilization to its zenith.
We will study the Mycenaean presence outside Greece
to the days of the Trojan War and Homer. The course
will end with the final decline of the Mycenaean
civilization and the so-called “Dark Ages”
of ancient Greek history.
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8. Introduction to
Psychology
The course offers a complete and contemporary summary
of the facts and principles essential to an understanding
of psychology. It embraces biological, cognitive,
developmental, social-psychological and clinical
paradigms, which will help the student to understand
and to think of the field of psychology both as
a product and a process. It follows a systems approach
in covering the various aspects of behavior and
experience and presents psychology
as both a science and a profession.
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9. Developmental
Psychology: Child and adolescent development
The course examines the developmental changes that
take place in the individual from conception through
adolescence. It covers all aspects of the developing
individual from physical and neural development
to social and cognitive development and how these
kinds of development complement each other. The
course emphasizes the determinants of human growth
and development, that is the identification of determining
factors that lead to changes in behavior and abilities,
individual differences and deviant behavior such
as mental deficiency, drug addiction and delinquency.
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Writing for Print
Lectures, analyses and classroom activities and/or
tasks are based on authentic data from American and
British newspapers and focus on the following:
- Language varieties, newspaper
language, the AP Stylebook.
- News and feature story writing.
- Journalistic guidelines and techniques
in relation to story structure(s), writing style(s),
news values/criteria; cohesive devices, coherence.
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Writing for Broadcast
Lectures, analyses and classroom activities/tasks
are based on authentic data from local, network and
satellite American and British channels and focus
on the following:
- News values/criteria; characteristics
of broadcast news and feature story writing.
- Story structure(s).
- Tense, aspect, voice and lexical
selections and their relation to the characteristics
of immediacy, timeliness, directness; the role of
cohesion and coherence.
- Journalistic guidelines, conventions
and techniques related to copy writing style.
- Elements of phonology useful to
anchoring.
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Interviewing; Writing Personality Profiles for the
Print Media
Lectures, analyses and classroom activities and/or
tasks are based on authentic data from American and
British newspapers and magazines and focus on the
following:
- Journalistic guidelines and techniques
related to interviewing.
- Linguistic, paralinguistic and
extra-linguistic elements contributing to the establishment
and maintenance of rapport between the interviewer
and the interviewee.
- The function and timing of various
categories and/or types of questions and probes.
- The role of paraphrasing and simplifying,
and of (partial) quotations in profiles for the
print media.
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Interviewing; Talk, Interview and Discussion Programs
Lectures, analyses and classroom activities and/or
tasks are based on authentic data from local, network
and satellite American and British channels and focus
on the following:
- Journalistic techniques and guidelines
involved in the “semi-scripted” type
of televised talk, interview and discussion programmes.
- Structural requirements; target
audience gratifications.
- Elements from Discourse and Conversation
Analysis contributing to the establishment and maintenance
of a near-native speaker conversational style.
- Conversational routines in (mostly
British) English.
- Reviving Ancient Greek Drama:
Interpretations and Misinterpretations
A major issue in theatre theory and
practice has been the re-interpretation of the classics
and the problem of authorship. The primary aim of
this course is to encourage students to investigate
fundamental questions related to the possible interactions
between a classical text and its modern revival(s)/appropriation(s)
across time. While reviewing the past and present
scope of revival performances, we will explore the
way this intercultural traffic affects every aspect
of theatre.
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Political Psychology
To elaborate the theoretical perspectives discussed
about Political Psychology. To examine a range of
individual and collective upholding of human political
behavior in terms of its psychological, cognitive
and social perspectives.
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Greek Design and Architecture: History, Theory and
Practice
The course is a historical survey of the entire evolution
of Greek Art and Architecture throughout the Hellenic
peninsula: Pre-Hellenic, Classical, Byzantine and
Modern. Each era is covered by a professor with appropriate
expertise. Each professor begins his/her segment with
a historical and theoretical introduction of the topic,
proceeding to hands on, on site study of the materials.
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16. Elements of European
Community Law
A survey of the history and development of United
Europe. The course will explore the developing structure
of UE: the Council, the Commission, the Parliament,
the Court and other organizations. Special attention
will be offered to the European legal system as well
as the sources and the implementation of the European
community law as it interacts with national legal
orders of the countries members. Finally the course
will investigate the formation of the European nationality
as well as the external and international relationship
of UE.
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17. Labor Market Institutions
and Human Resource Management in the UE and the USA
This is an introductory course in the management of
work and the employment relationship in advanced countries.
Throughout the course we consider the implications
of continued changes in labor markets in advanced
countries. The first part of the course provides an
overview of the European labor markets, discussing
developments in employment, wages and institutional
environments.
In the second part we consider the environment that
governs work within firms -- wages, working conditions,
ways of organizing work, and other human resource
policies and practices – for managing people.
In this part we explore several kinds of human resources
systems. The course draws on the experience of firms
from the European Union and North America. In selecting
different systems of human resource management, firms
and employees make important choices. We develop our
understanding of these choices by looking at history,
culture, and by making international comparisons of
the various institutional settings. Case studies will
be used to illustrate contemporary ideas and practices.
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18. European
Union and the Greek Corporations
Having joined the European Monetary Union Greece has
to meet the challenge of membership in a group of
countries with fast moving economies and technological
progress. Hence, the country’s firms are faced
with the urgent need to adapt, rationalize and increase
the effectiveness of their policies within the EU
business environment.
This course explores the interaction between European
business and their environment using up-to-date case
studies. Drawing upon a range of disciplines including
economics, organizational behavior, and business strategy,
it explores how and why modern businesses behave as
they do, and how and why the business environment
is changing. A central theme of this course is the
position of Greek corporations within the European
Single Market.
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19. International
Economic Law & Law of International Transactions
This course is a general survey of the international
economic system. The course explores the legal articulation
of international economic order as well as its definition,
scope and structure. It identifies the subjects and
the sources of international economic law as well
as the major institutions of it: WTO, International
Monetary Fund, World Bank, etc.
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Global Financial Management
This course is designed for students who wish to build
upon the basic economic and financial principles they
have acquired in the areas of economics and corporate
finance. Emphasis is given to the challenges financial
managers face in the dynamic and rapidly expanding
field of international finance. Topics covered include
international financial markets, multinational capital
budgeting, cost of capital and capital structure of
multinational corporations, long-term and short-term
asset and liability management, forecasting exchange
rates, hedging of exchange rate movements, risk exposure,
country risk analysis and an introduction to the international
banking environment.
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European Union: Institutions and Politics
The purpose of the course is to examine the history,
structure, institutions, and the functioning of the
European Union within a changing international environment.
Emphasis is given to the study of the EU political
unification, in particular the area of foreign, security
and defense policy.
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International Relations and the Democratization in
SE Europe
The course introduces the student to the characteristics
of the Balkan system of states, since their independence
and before World War II, during this war, and during
the Cold War. The course analyses the conditions of
the transition of these states to market economy and
western democracy institutions. It focuses on the
causes that led to the breakdown of the Balkan states
system and the appearance of new state entities. It
examines also the current relations and problems between
the Balkan states, as well as the role of foreign
powers in the region. Finally, it presents the issues
related to the Hellenic foreign policy.
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European Economic Integration and Labor Market
The objective of this course is to provide analytical
economic understanding on the economics of economic
integration and in particular of European economic
integration. Moreover, it plans to offer a blend of
theory analysis and applications relating both to
the European Union as a whole and to its constituent
member countries. In addition, the course aims, first,
at understanding the characteristics as well as the
functioning of the labor market and labor institutional
framework in the context of the European Union and
the workings of the Euro as common currency. In addition,
the understanding of labor institutional framework
will help students to assess the impact of economic
integration on the labor market itself as well as
on the process of business cycles in general.
The course reviews the first steps
toward integration and formation of the European Union
(EU). Examines the effects on trade, agriculture,
money and banking, and mainly focuses on the role
of labor markets and relevant labor institutions and
describes the adjustments needed in the labor market
in the framework of the most relevant theoretical
issues concerning exchange rate systems, technological
regimes and the convergence-divergence thesis. Moreover,
the course outlines theoretical insights regarding
the motivation and effects of labor market institutions
on European economies as well as what are the possible
reforms of European labor markets needed in the context
of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) process.
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Economic History of Greece
The salient feature of this course is its long run
perspective. A perspective, which is, shared among
major historians such as Braudel and Hobsbawm and
economic historians such as Kondratiev, Schumpeter,
Rostow among others. In a preparatory stage we examine
various key questions, such as the importance of economic
history and the nature of economic problem, the new
economic history, etc.
Then we investigate questions of
economic history of Greece in the context of international
experience, such as the social character of the Greek
Independence Revolution, the emergence of the new
Greek state and the economic policies that were pursued,
the agricultural question, the economic growth and
the long depression of the late nineteenth century,
the beginnings of industrialisation and the role of
shipping industry, the development of monetary system
and financial institutions, the economic crisis of
1930s and its consequences for the Greek economy.
We also discuss alternative interpretations
of the economic crisis of the 1930 using data from
the Greek and other economies. The book ends with
a discussion of the post-war “golden age of
accumulation”, that lasts up to the late 1960s
or early 1970s and the period of stagnation of 1970s
and early 1980s, and the economic growth of the late
1980s.
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Archaeology of ancient Greece
The geographical setting:
the situation of Greece in the Eastern Mediterranean
and the main features of its landscape.
The beginning of Classical Greek culture: The Geometric
Period (10th to 8th century BC).
The first expansion of the Greeks and the creation
of a monumental Greek art: The Orientalizing and Archaic
periods (7th to 6th century BC).
The age of maturity: The Classical Period (5th and
4th century BC).
The second expansion of the Greeks and the spread
of Greek culture to East and West: The Hellenistic
Period (3rd to 1st century BC)
On site topics:
A general introduction to the history
and archaeology of Ancient Greece with a specific
interest in the region of Macedonia.
Participation at the Aristotle University excavation
project at Dion
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Ancient Greek History
The aim of this course is to familiarize
the students with the basic outline of the history
of Greece from the Archaic period until the rise of
democracy. More specifically, the course will deal
with the factors that enabled and assisted the crystallization
of the democratic constitution in Greece.
The classes will be held in the form of lectures.
However, dialogue with the lecturer is welcome and
encouraged. There will also be the chance to use CD-ROMs,
Videos and other facilities.
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Ancient Greek II
Ancient Greek II introduces students
to elementary aspects of the ancient Greek language:
listening, reading and writing comprehension. Students
will learn essential vocabulary while developing an
understanding of the grammar and structure of the
language. At the same time, they will become familiar
with some cultural points of the country, its mythology,
literature and history. Throughout the semester the
students will also be introduced to selected original
texts from the Histories of Herodotus.
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