Creative Writing – THEMATIC UNITS

DHG50 Literary Theory, Readers’ Response and Creative Writing

Module Code: DHG50
ECTS Credits: 10
Module Type: Compulsory
Semester: First (1^st)
Language: Greek
Module Outline

Objectives – Description of the Module: The aim of this module is to introduce students to fundamental concepts of literary theory and creative writing theory. Students will have the opportunity to get acquainted with theoretical schools, trends and thinkers who have played an important role in the study and interpretation of literary texts and contexts. They will become familiar with the concepts of reception, reading response and interpretive communities and will practice alternative reading approaches to literary works. They will also be acquainted with the evolution of the creative writing industry, its legitimacy in the academic environment and its operation, even beyond its expected fields of diffusion (e.g. creative writing and natural sciences, creative writing and new media, etc.).

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to:

• Recognize the main trends/schools and persons related to the theory of literature and criticism as well as creative writing
• Comprehend the ideological contexts that contributed to their emergence and the aims of different theoretical approaches to the function of literature
• Practice various readings and interpretative approaches to literary texts
• Understand the difficulties arising from the choices of the authorial subject (narrator, point of view, plot characters, etc.)
• Produce different types of discourse of varying stylistic directions
• Be aware of the finite nature of literary theory and reflect on the function of each text
• Appreciate the role and effectiveness of creative writing methods in various academic pursuits and their contribution even to seemingly irrelevant disciplines.

Topics: 

• Central issues of literary theory, reading response and creative writing: literature, reading, interpretation, critical evaluation of texts, creative practices
• Trends in literary theory and criticism: New Criticism, Formalism, Structuralism and Poststructuralism, psychoanalytic approaches, theories of reception and reading response, feminist criticism, postcolonial criticism, cultural approaches to literature
• New trends in creative writing theory

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this module.

Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s e-Learning Platform and conducting Group Counselling Meetings (tele-GCM)

DHG51 European Literature, 18th-20th c. (Trends, Schools and Authors)

Module Code: DHG51
ECTS Credits: 10
Module Type: Compulsory
Semester: First (1^st)
Language: Greek
Module Outline

Objectives – Description of the module: The aim of this Module is to provide postgraduate students with a broad and solid knowledge of European Literature from the 18th to the 20th century, focusing on key milestones of its development (artistic/literary currents and schools/writers, intellectual tendencies and ideological implications) and deepening their understanding of literary phenomena and genres through the investigation of their social, aesthetic and cultural parameters. A focus on works of important authors from the “canon” of European Literature and their study through an analytical and comparative perspective – beyond spatio-temporal constraints – is also part of this Module’s objectives.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to:

• Recognize the basic features of the main currents of European Literature
• Understand the specific features of the various genres of writing (prose and poetry, as well as literary essays) as developed by the main literary movements in Europe from the 18th to the 20th century
• Critically comprehend the narrative techniques and specificities of the various literary genres and forms
• Study comparatively the main variations of literary trends by country and also of literary genres by literary trend
• Analyze works by major authors of European Literature from a comparative perspective

Topics: 

• Milestones of European Literature (18th-20th century): Literary movements, intellectual/aesthetic trends, works and authors
• New narrative forms, new genres of poetry and drama and their theoretical frameworks
• Comparative approaches to literary texts in a synchronic and diachronic context, based on their themes, typologies & the ideas they explore.

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this module.

Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s e-Learning Platform and conducting Group Counselling Meetings (tele-GCM)

DHG52 Modern Greek Literature (19th-20th c.): Texts, readings, revisions

Module Code: DHG52
ECTS Credits: 10
Module Type: Compulsory
Semester: First (1^st)
Language: Greek
Module Outline

Objectives – Description of the module: This module’s aim is the critical investigation of main themes, forms and genres of Modern Greek literary production, from the early 19th century to the present day, and the students’ familiarization with both the historical reception of literary texts and with recent proposals toward their interpretative revision. In the context of this module, students practice the interpretive reading of a generically and historically broad range of literary texts, focusing on critical reception and the historical and cultural contexts of literary production. The module’s Study Units are organized thematically, attending to historical continuity but in a way that allows the exploration of connections and contrasts between texts from different literary periods or of varying stylistic and ideological orientations and the showcasing of revisionist proposals.

Drawing on the knowledge they have acquired in previous modules, with regard to elements of literary theory and trends in modern European literature, students of this module will study texts from the current Modern Greek literary canon, as well as examples from beyond its limits (e.g. popular, detective and graphic novels) aiming to acquire a comprehensive and critical perception of the literary phenomenon and to practice in approaches and discourses from the Greek literary field.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to:

• recognize different literary genres, trends and movements and relate Modern Greek literary texts to the trends and tendencies of their time
• study and interpret in depth earlier and more recent texts, taking into account a range of analytical categories (themes, techniques, ideological choices of authors) and historical, social and philosophical aspects
• understand the significance and function of literary criticism in the context of literature as an institution
• understand the nature and function of the literary canon
• cultivate their critical skills through reading immersion activities inspired by different theoretical approaches

Topics: 

• Modern Greek literature, 19th century: texts and readings
• Modern Greek literature, 20th century: texts and readings
• Interpretative approaches to literary texts

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this module.

Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s e-Learning Platform and conducting Group Counselling Meetings (tele-GCM)

DHG53 Poetry and Prose: Literary History and Forms

Module Code: DHG53
ECTS Credits: 10
Module Type: Compulsory
Semester: Second (2^nd)
Language: Greek
Module Outline

Objectives – Description of the module: The main aim of the module is to provide postgraduate students with a solid knowledge of theoretical and practical approaches to prose and poetry, along with a general historical overview of these genres during the last two centuries. With the above objective in mind, students read a selection of mainly Greek canonical literary texts as well as critical and interpretative material in order to understand the construction of prose and poetry as historically determined and morphologically evolving artistic endeavors. In the case of prose, the module focuses on basic elements of narrative (plot, literary space, literary character) and selected literary movements in connection to techniques and modes of writing, such as internal monologue, intertextuality and mediality/interdisciplinarity. In the case of poetry, the module focuses on form and examines various modalities, from strictly metrical or “traditional” to free verse. Students will also study the literary essay and its main characteristics and will practice in the composition of original texts, in prose and in poetry.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to:

• Recognize the structural and formal elements of prose, poetry and the literary essay
• Comprehend significant texts of prose and poetry with respect to their historic features and their style
• Evaluate the key elements of form in prose and poetic texts
• Critically analyze literary works by important Greek novelists and poets
• Practice the production and composition of their own original literary texts

Topics: 

• Prose and narrative techniques
• Poetic language, form and lyricism
• The literary essay

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this module.

Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s e-Learning Platform and conducting Group Counselling Meetings (tele-GCM).

DHG54 Creative Writing Workshop I (Poetry-Prose)

Module Code: DHG54
ECTS Credits: 10
Module Type: Compulsory
Semester: Second (2^nd)
Language: Greek
Module Outline

Objectives – Description of the module: The main aim of this module is to familiarize graduate students with the basic techniques and problems of creative writing so that they will be able to compose their own original literary texts and also to read critically works by other authors.  Students will have the opportunity to deepen the knowledge they have acquired from preceding modules through the systematic study of selected works by well-known novelists and poets, as well as through the writing of specific assignments and participation in Creative Writing workshops with their instructors, who are experienced writers themselves.

A main objective of this Module is the training of students in the composition of literary texts (of prose as well as poetry), by the use of writing exercises and experimental applications of creative writing techniques.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to handle:

• The alternations of narrative focus in a literary text
• The difference between the omniscient narrator and the gradations of a focused narrative
• The distinction between interior and dramatic monologue
• The cases of incongruity or conflict between social identity, historical context, psychological profile and linguistic substance of a literary character
• The differences between poetry and prose, focusing on the density of poetic discourse, the internal rhythm of a poem and the various ways in which meaning is generated in poems. The special case of prose or “hybrid” poems.
• The differences between rhyming and free verse
• The importance of internal rhythm in a poem, regardless of its form
• The way in which myths are creatively exploited and reinterpreted in poetry, and others.

Topics:

• Creative reading and analysis of literary works
• Practice in the composition of literary texts, of both prose and poetry
• Familiarization with the open nature of literary writing and its connections with historical, social, political, philosophical, and aesthetic issues

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this module.

Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s e-Learning Platform and conducting Group Counselling Meetings (tele-GCM).

DHG55 Creative Writing and Education

Module Code: DHG55
ECTS Credits: 10
Module Type: Elective
Semester: Second (2^nd)
Language: Greek
Module Outline

Objectives – Description of the module: This module introduces students to creative writing as cognitive and methodological background for effective and flexible didactic practices. It also promotes reflection on creative writing’s position in contemporary educational reality and on the parameters that determine it and seeks to enable students toward the independent production of quality educational material and the understanding of relevant research.

With this aim in mind, the module begins with discussion of theories and forms of creativity of particular interest to education and of the importance of creativity for the acquisition of basic 21^st-century skills but also for personal and social development and well-being. This discussion is followed by analyses of atypical theories and representations of creativity (or creative reading and writing) in the discourses of children, teachers, and in texts of children’s and adolescent literature, canonical literature and other fictional forms. Through educational activities, students explore and realize the importance of theories of creativity in terms of how we are (or are not) able to recognize and release it in educational settings. They will also examine their own theories of creativity, analyze them and reflect on their educational implications.

The main pedagogical theories of creative writing are presented. In the context of educational activities, the underlying pedagogical theories of creative writing and reading are examined in educational documents, creative writing manuals, lesson plans, etc.

The core of the module is teaching methodology for the support of creative reading and writing, as well as for the promotion of literary education, language literacy and personal development of students through creative reading and writing. It also provides a broad review of creative reading and writing resources (artistic and non-artistic stimuli, monotropic and multimodal, with an emphasis on literature for children and adolescents), its applications and good practices at different educational levels (from pre-school to higher education) and contexts (formal, informal and non-formal education). Through educational activities, students become familiar with processes for the development of new educational material and for the critical adaptation of existing ideas and practices.

The module concludes with a tour of alternative “paths” of creative writing and reading in education (in particular with regard to applications of creative writing and reading in subjects beyond language and literature and in contemporary issues of high social importance, to the therapeutic power of creative reading and writing and to the uses of ICT in education). Through educational activities, students evaluate and reframe ideas and practices of creative reading and writing in these “alternative pathways”.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to:

• Explain in an evidence-based way the importance of creativity for education and for personal and social development and well-being
• Compare theories of creativity and illuminate them in the light of creative writing and creative writing education
• Analyze informal theories and representations of creativity in fictional and non-fictional texts
• Reflect on the role of teachers and the educational environment as factors for the diffusion of creative reading and writing practices
• Support the development of students’ creative reading and writing with a variety of stimuli (artistic and non-artistic, monotropic and multimodal, etc.), teaching techniques and strategies
• Select appropriate texts as stimuli for creative reading and writing, taking into account the interests of their students as readers
• Use creative reading and writing as a teaching approach for literary education and language literacy of students in different educational levels and contexts
• Evaluate and give feedback on creative reading and writing products
• Produce and/or adapt educational materials for learning with creative writing and reading in disciplines other than language and literature

Topics:

• Creativity in education
• Literary education, language literacy and creative reading and writing
• Production of educational material for creative reading and writing

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this module.

Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s e-Learning Platform and conducting Group Counselling Meetings (tele-GCM).

DHG56 Literary Translation and Creative Writing

Module Code: DHG56
ECTS Credits: 10
Module Type: Elective
Semester: Second (2^nd)
Language: Greek
Module Outline

Objectives – Description of the module: The aim of this module is to introduce students to literary translation from the viewpoint of creativity and to allow them to make connections between acts of translation and the history of literature in a context of dialogue between genres, traditions and authors. By examining both theories of translation and several paratexts that have recorded the experiences of literary translators across time, students will be able to understand key aspects of the process of transferring a poem, a short story, or a novel into another language and culture, gradually recognizing the productive transfers between translation and literary creativity, as well as the role of translators in the reception of an author’s work and in the broader dialogue between literary systems. Literary translation is examined as an activity that is necessarily creative and often plays a significant role among the authors’ own writing practices. It is located in a range of practices including imitations, adaptations, poems ‘à la manière de’ and others and often produces hybrid and experimental texts – or, as in the case of self-translation and pseudotranslation, is essentially part of original literary production.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to:

• adopt a critical stance towards literary translation and translation studies in general
• recognize the importance of translation in various literary dialogues, in the work of the main actors forming a nexus in a literary system, as well as in mechanisms of cultural influence
• evaluate the quality of literary translations and critically study translators’ paratexts
• establish connections between a given translation being produced and original literary texts from the literary tradition of the target language
• be cognizant of the broader criteria for evaluating literary translations
• make use of digital platforms and resources related to the translation of literature, including websites by literary journals that feature translated literature.

Topics: 

• Basic issues in the theory and history of translation – Aspects of literary translation criticism
• Creative writing and practices of translation
• Translation poetics and critical receptions of literary translation

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this module.

Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s e-Learning Platform and conducting Group Counselling Meetings (tele-GCM).

DHG60 Copyediting, Proofreading and Editing of Texts

Module Code: DHG60
ECTS Credits: 10
Module Type: Elective
Semester: Third (3^rd)
Language: Greek
Module Outline

Objectives – Description of the module: The main objective of this module is to familiarize students with the major aspects of text editing, copyediting and proofreading. An adequate knowledge of Modern Greek is a prerequisite as students will learn advanced techniques of editing, copyediting and proofreading that may allow them with further curricular (offered by the program) and extracurricular practice to seek employment in the editing/proofreading business. A basic practice regarding copyediting and proofreading, both digital and printed (with the use of proofreading marks and editing symbols) will also be provided. The main written assignment of the course also offers students the opportunity to face the challenges of literary textual editing and provide editorial solutions for both literary and academic texts.  

Learning Outcomes:

Upon the successful completion of this module, students will be able to:

• Edit to an adequate extent a short or longer text
• Attempt the typographical corrections and proofreading of a text
• Attempt the copy-editing of a text
• Attempt the aesthetic and functional processing of a publication by use of modern methods

 Topics: 

• Copyediting of texts
• Typographical corrections and proofreading of texts
• Aesthetic and functional processing of publications by use of modern methods

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this module.

Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s e-Learning Platform and conducting Group Counselling Meetings (tele-GCM).

DHG61 Literature in the digital universe

Module Code: DHG61
ECTS Credits: 10
Module Type: Elective
Semester: Third (3^rd)
Language: Greek
Module Outline

Objectives – Description of the module: This module aims at the historical, theoretical and practical introduction of students to the new possibilities offered for literature in the digital world. The module focuses on the digital condition, and examines the archiving, reading and production of literary discourse in digital environments. It presents digital literary resources (mainly in Modern Greek) and guides students to their use for various purposes (personal study, creative inspiration, educational uses). Furthermore, it presents the possibilities offered by digital tools for the study and analysis of literary texts. It also discusses the specificities of digital literature and examines some of its best-known examples, while it familiarizes students with the study of and critical discourse on multimedia hypertexts. The module also presents the objectives and available tools for the production of (multimedia) literature in the digital environment. Finally, it discusses the specificities of digital space as a field for publishing creative work, as well as some of the ethical issues raised by the digital condition.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to:

• have a critical understanding of the digital condition, particularly with regard to archiving, reading and producing literature in digital environments
• be familiar with digital literary resources (especially in Modern Greek) and use them for a variety of purposes
• be aware of the possibilities for the research and study of literature offered by digital tools
• be familiar with the various forms and some of the best-known works of digital literature, understand and use the basic categories and terms of their critical analysis
• produce creative work in a digital environment using digital tools
• understand and navigate through the specificities of the digital world for the publication and promotion of their own creative work
• be aware of some of the major ethical issues raised by the digital condition

Topics:

• Digital technologies and literary studies
• Creative writing and digital technologies
• Digital literature

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this module.

Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s e-Learning Platform and conducting Group Counselling Meetings (tele-GCM).

DHG62 Discourses of communication, advertising and social media

Module Code: DHG62
ECTS Credits: 10
Module Type: Elective
Semester: Third (3^rd)
Language: Greek
Module Outline

Objectives – Description of the module: This module examines the discourse of communication developed by the media, which aim at broadcasting news, informing and entertaining the societies in which they are embedded. It also analyzes the discourse of advertising as it has developed in the context of Greek society. Moreover, this module aims at the students’ critical acquaintance with the broad variety of discourses that have arisen with the prevalence of the internet in our everyday lives and through social media (Facebook/meta, Twitter, Instagram, etc.).

The principal Study Units in which the module’s material is organized include the evolution of communication and advertising discourses during the history of the press and other media as well as social media that are generally thought to offer an extensive space for practicing almost all the forms of mass media and advertising pursuits. The issues examined in this module are combined with critical analysis of the ways through which the discourses of communication, advertising, and social media have been incorporated in Greek society, influencing the formation of ‘public opinion’ and/or producing mass cultures and collective behaviors.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon the successful completion of this module, students will be able to:

• Decode the messages of narrative techniques and communication constructions of the communication and advertising discourse to understand a wide range of developments and integrate them effectively in the context of rational arguments
• Recognize the mechanisms of the formation of mass social, political, and historical cultures in the context of public media discourse and advertising
• Evaluate the functions of narrative types of communication discourse and the objectives of advertising and assess their relationship with technological means through which messages and/or opinions are disseminated in the press (newspapers, magazines), radio, television, online newspapers or social media
• Critically interpret interdisciplinary tools and/or comparative methodologies, current journalistic discourses and advertising techniques in their historical context
• Apply the theories of communication and advertising they will be acquainted with to their own texts.

Topics: 

• Key milestones in the history of communication, advertising and social networks. Discourse as a means of social integration, asserting social roles, promoting consumer behavior, exchanging opinions, disseminating messages, propaganda and manipulation.
• Codes of communication and the formation of national, patriotic, social, economic and political ideologies and attitudes in the historical development of societies.
• Social communication, historical consciousness and social time.

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this module.

Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s e-Learning Platform and conducting Group Counselling Meetings (tele-GCM).

DHG63 Creative Playwriting

Module Code: DHG63
ECTS Credits: 10
Module Type: Elective
Semester: Third (3^rd)
Language: Greek
Module Outline

Objectives – Description of the module: This module aims at introducing students to the basic concepts and tools of theatrical discourse.

It also seeks to describe the basic terms of playwriting and to analyse in detail the structure and phases of dramatic writing, from the initial idea to the final text.

Historical examples of plays also contribute to the module’s syllabus, together with the examination of genres and forms of modern playwriting and contemporary stage practices.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this module, students will be able to:

• identify specific techniques in theatrical texts
• place dramatic works within their historical contexts
• analyse plays
• identify the links between a play and its representation on stage
• proceed to write their own original or adapted dramatic texts.

Topics: 

• Introduction to the art of theatre and dramatic writing. Actors in the theatrical act, from dramaturgy to stage production. The composition of plays.
• History and theory of theatre: dramaturgical rules, aesthetic trends and main currents in Western theatre
• Dramatic analysis: study of plays and their authors, issues of theatre reception and audience formation

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this module.

Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s e-Learning Platform and conducting Group Counselling Meetings (tele-GCM).

DHG64 Creative Screenwriting

Module Code: DHG64
ECTS Credits: 10
Module Type: Elective
Semester: Third (3^rd)
Language: Greek
Module Outline

Objectives – Description of the module: The aim of this module is to introduce students to the theoretical and practical aspects of film language. The object of study is not limited to script writing, but extends to all the expressive tools of the art of cinema, which are also directly applicable to the wide range of contemporary audiovisual creation. We will examine the evolution of different cinematic narrative codes in relation to the factors that shaped them and the ways in which they affect the viewer’s perception, highlighting the heterogeneity of the cinematic medium and the various aesthetic parameters that determine the style of a film or other audiovisual product. The nature of the course is equally analytical and synthetic, combining structural and morphological analysis of selected cinematic works with the hands-on creation of original cinematic texts. The module aims to offer the most comprehensive knowledge and experience of audiovisual creation possible and to encourage students to cultivate their own personal artistic style.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to:

• identify the basic building blocks of film narrative: story and plot / characters and types of conflict / dominant and alternative forms of narrative / ways of structuring film time / spatio-temporal continuity and discontinuity / shot, scene and sequence / decoupage / internal timing of shots / the role of editing
• understand and creatively use the visual tools and techniques of cinema: film frame / off-screen space / camera angle/ perspective / lighting / color
• discern the range of choices in the sound design of a film and the ways in which sound and image can be combined: diegetic and non-diegetic sounds / direction of attention / rendering of acoustic space / subjective soundscapes / use of music, dialogue and environmental sounds
• assess the aesthetic, practical and ethical issues involved in making a documentary film: evolution of the ‘cinema of truth’ / the camera as a catalyst / ‘direct cinema’ / modes of narration in documentary / hybrids of documentary and fiction
• evaluate the historical development of film language, investigate the basic principles of directing and be able to apply them to the construction of a short audiovisual essay

Topics:

• Structure and techniques of film narrative: analysis and creative application
• Expressive tools of audiovisual language (image, sound, editing): from theory to practice
• The evolution of film language: theoretical and historical context

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this module.

Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s e-Learning Platform and conducting Group Counselling Meetings (tele-GCM).

DHG65 Creative Writing Workshop IΙ (Playwriting- Screenwriting)

Module Code: DHG65
ECTS Credits: 10
Module Type: Compulsory
Semester: Fourth (4^th)
Language: Greek
Module Outline

Objectives – Description of the module: The main objective of this module is to familiarize students with the basic techniques of theatrical discourse and film script. They will have the opportunity to deepen the knowledge acquired from previous modules through their systematic study of works by distinguished playwrights and film screenwriters, as well as through their in-person participation in Creative Writing workshops.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to:

• Recognize the structure of dramaturgy and the requirements of composing a play or a film script, but also understand the specificities of handling the different linguistic modes that characterise these genres
• Comprehend the complex difficulties raised by the choices made by the author’s subject (narrator, protagonist, point of view, setting, characters, plot, internal rhythm, linear narrative, etc.) in the composition of a play or film script
• Analyze critically and with active participation works by major playwrights and film screenwriters, as well as by their fellow students, thus creating an original writing and reading-critical community
• Recognize the value of disciplined and systematic engagement with theatrical and film discourse
• Compose and submit their own texts, which they will discuss with established authors and receive feedback through Creative Writing workshops.

Topics:

• The structure of dramaturgy – myth and drama (introduction, conflict and resolution)
• The technique of writing a play (thematic core, plot, characters, scene, dramatic conflict, dramatic speech)
• The technique of writing a film text (thematic core, characters, the typography of the script, language, style and means of expression)
• The techniques for adapting literature or older drama texts for the stage and screen (concept and method).

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this module.

Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s e-Learning Platform and conducting Group Counselling Meetings (tele-GCM).

DHGDE Master’s Thesis

Module Code: DHGDE
ECTS Credits: 20
Module Type: Elective
Semester: Fourth (4^th)
Language: Greek
Module Outline

Description of the Thesis: Commencement of the thesis requires the successful completion of nine modules (module DHG65 can be attended in parallel with the thesis). The presentation and examination of the thesis requires the successful completion of ten modules. The topic of the thesis must be directly related to the modules and topics of the program. The Master’s Thesis should have a total length of 25,000-30,000 words.

Learning Outcomes:

Through their work on the Master’s Thesis, students gain experience in the various stages of the composition of an academic study. They contribute to academic knowledge by conducting original research and/or by presenting a critique of established theories. They practice in the critical review of research material, they acquire proficiency in the use of academic methodology and they learn how to reach valid and testable conclusions.

The General Regulations for Postgraduate Diploma Theses in a Master’s degree with semester-long thesis are available at: General Regulation for the Preparation of Master’s Theses in postgraduate programmes with a six-month duration.

For more information regarding the Specifications – Useful Material for writing Master’s Theses and uploading a Thesis at the H.O.U. Repository, you can go to the Digital Training Area http://courses.eap.gr and especially to the Program of Studies section.

Prerequisites: The presentation of the Master’s Thesis takes place after the successful completion of the modules of the Program.

DHGPA Practical Training

Module Code: DHGPA
ECTS Credits: 20
Module Type: Elective
Semester: Fourth (4^th)
Language: Greek
Module Outline

Description of the Practical Training: The purpose of the Practical training Module is the application and deepening of the theoretical knowledge and skills that students acquire during their studies in the Master’s Program through their integration, for a short period of time, in a real work environment and the addition of professional skills and qualifications to their academic training. It allows the acquaintance of students with possible future professional fields, their familiarization and networking with institutions and their staff and thus completes the educational experience through the combination of practice and theory.

Learning Outcomes:

• Practical application and enhancement of academic knowledge and skills
• Acquaintance with appropriate professional fields and staff
• Development of collaboration skills in a team environment
• Experience in initiative development and action planning
• Troubleshooting experience
• Networking and collaboration opportunities

Prerequisites: The start of the Practical Training requires the prior completion of at least the first nine modules of the Postgraduate Programme. The successful completion of the PA requires the completion of 10 modules.