Module Code: PSAE50
ECTS Credits: 10
Module Type: Compulsory
Semester: First (1st)
Language: Greek
Aim – Description of the module: The aim of the module is to provide students with a historical, theoretical and practical introduction to Digital Humanities (DH), through a general, critical discussion of digital technology and methods in the humanities, social sciences and arts. The module first examines the historical and theoretical development of DH from the first projects to the present day, as well as the epistemological issues related to its establishment. It then focuses on the materials, processing and presentation-publication of digital works and the workflows within their context. Some preliminary applications of tools in the field of data digitization are developed and their documentation is briefly presented, with an emphasis on metadata schemas, while digital platforms and digital infrastructures and their use are also introduced. The discussion also addresses the ethical issues raised in the context of DH, the need for project sustainability and good practices and the need for collaborative work and resource sharing.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
Subjects Covered:
Evaluation: Completion of written assignments during the academic semester which constitute a 40 percent of each student’s grade, if a pass is obtained in the final or repetitive examination. Final exam grades constitute a 60 percent of the students’ final course grade.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this module.
Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s E-Learning Platform and Group Counselling Meetings.
Module Code: PSAE51
ECTS Credits: 10
Module Type: Compulsory
Semester: First (1st)
Language: Greek
Aim – Description of the module: The aim of the module is to introduce students to the processes of collecting textual data and analysing them in order to extract information. The module addresses issues that concern the collection of (oral and written) data, corpus design principles, searching for resources, transcribing oral texts, digitisation, cleaning and documentation, as well as the maintenance of metadata. The creation of corpora is discussed in detail. In addition, students become familiar with tools and concepts of automatic text analysis such as frequency lists, concordances, lexical clusters, keywords etc. and practice analysis with the use of related programs for textual data in Greek (e.g. AntConc, Sketch Engine etc.). Techniques for textual data visualization with a variety of methods and tools are also presented, with the aim of understanding and interpreting the information obtained from the processing of large volumes of textual data.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
Subjects Covered:
Evaluation: Completion of written assignments during the academic semester which constitute a 40 percent of each student’s grade, if a pass is obtained in the final or repetitive examination. Final exam grades constitute a 60 percent of the students’ final course grade.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this module.
Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s E-Learning Platform and Group Counselling Meetings.
Module Code: PSAE62
ECTS Credits: 10
Module Type: Elective
Semester: First (1st) & Third (3rd)
Language: Greek
Aim – Description of the module: In this module, students focus on the basic parameters of the thinking developed in recent years about the use of digital media in teaching. Emphasis is placed on teaching subjects related to language (ancient Greek, Modern Greek, second/foreign language, literature), as well as theoretical approaches to the extent that they concern broader issues of teaching in the humanities. Although the focus is on teaching in the first and, especially, the second level of general education, the module also deals with issues of teaching and education in other forms of education (informal, adult etc.) and other levels (post-secondary, higher education). Apart from discussing theoretical concerns and the issues raised by them, the module also aims at familiarizing students with digital tools and media for language education, fostering the related functional literacy, cultivating criteria for the selection and evaluation of digital learning resources and educational environments such as the development of criteria for the evaluation and assessment of digital learning resources (e.g. websites), the implementation of teaching plans using digital media and the development of critical reflection on the practices of consolidating digital literacy, both functional and critical, in teaching.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
Subjects Covered:
Evaluation: Completion of written assignments during the academic semester which constitute a 40 percent of each student’s grade, if a pass is obtained in the final or repetitive examination. Final exam grades constitute a 60 percent of the students’ final course grade.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this module.
Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s E-Learning Platform and Group Counselling Meetings.
Module Code: PSAE63
ECTS Credits: 10
Module Type: Elective
Semester: First (1st) & Third (3rd)
Language: Greek
Aim – Description of the module: The module aims at introducing programming in Python to students who are not familiar with the basic concepts of computational thinking and programming, so that they can process data in their digital projects in DH. The module does not assume any prior knowledge of programming and both introduces basic concepts of algorithmic thinking and training in Python at a basic level that enables a) the use of tools based on Python libraries, b) the creation of basic Python programs and c) acquaintance with the most important Python libraries used in DH, such as spacy. Python can be used in a number of fields, such as web development, machine learning and artificial intelligence applications, games development, data visualization, mass data analysis etc.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
Subjects Covered:
Evaluation: Completion of written assignments during the academic semester which constitute a 40 percent of each student’s grade, if a pass is obtained in the final or repetitive examination. Final exam grades constitute a 60 percent of the students’ final course grade.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this module.
Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s E-Learning Platform and Group Counselling Meetings.
Module Code: PSAE52
ECTS Credits: 10
Module Type: Compulsory
Semester: Second (2nd)
Language: Greek
Aim – Description of the module: The aim of the module is to introduce students to the processes of collecting, analysing and presenting data in databases, in order to highlight the important information found in them. The module addresses issues of information organization, data collection and database design for use in DH projects, with particular reference to Big Data. In particular, the module presents the general principles and applications of databases for the collection and exploitation of unimodal and multimodal digital data. It introduces the Entity Relational Model and the Relational Model, as well as web databases and mySQL. Finally, the Semantic Web and RDF and XML languages are presented.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
Subjects Covered:
Evaluation: Completion of written assignments during the academic semester which constitute a 40 percent of each student’s grade, if a pass is obtained in the final or repetitive examination. Final exam grades constitute a 60 percent of the students’ final course grade.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this module.
Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s E-Learning Platform and Group Counselling Meetings.
Module Code: PSAE53
ECTS Credits: 10
Module Type: Compulsory
Semester: Second (2nd)
Language: Greek
Aim – Description of the laboratory module: The aim of the Lab module is to introduce students to the basic concepts of creating and managing digital multimedia resources, i.e. image, audio, video, animation, simulations, interactive presentations etc. as building blocks of a DH project. The module focuses in particular on the use of multimedia data processing software in combination with ways to process, store, retrieve and present data. Web-based repositories of multimedia data are also presented, along with a variety of web-based tools for creating multimedia presentations, especially for mobile devices.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this laboratory module, students will be able to:
Subjects Covered:
Evaluation: Completion of written assignments during the academic semester which constitute a 50 percent of each student’s grade, if a pass is obtained in the final or repetitive examination. Final exam grades constitute a 50 percent of the students’ final course grade.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this Laboratory module.
Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s E-Learning Platform and Group Counselling Meetings.
Module Code: PSAE54
ECTS Credits: 10
Module Type: Compulsory
Semester: Second (2nd)
Language: Greek
Aim – Description of the laboratory module: This Lab module discusses new digital tools for the computational processing and analysis of linguistic data, including tokenization, lemmatization, part-of-speech recognition, morphosyntactic analysis, topic identification, text categorization, automatic summarization, statistical analysis of stylometric features, text processing applications, creation of electronic dictionaries, etc. For this purpose, the first part of the module introduces natural language processing (basic concepts, levels of language analysis, problems) and analyses issues of morphological, syntactic and semantic analysis, for which the main applications and related computational tools are presented. In the second part of the module, specific issues of language processing through digital tools such as naming entity recognition and extraction, sentiment and attitude analysis, automatic translation/interpretation, electronic lexicography, etc. are developed and the relevant tools and their theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this laboratory module, students will be able to:
Subjects Covered:
Evaluation: Completion of written assignments during the academic semester which constitute a 50 percent of each student’s grade, if a pass is obtained in the final or repetitive examination. Final exam grades constitute a 50 percent of the students’ final course grade.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this Laboratory module.
Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s E-Learning Platform and Group Counselling Meetings.
Module Code: PSAE60
ECTS Credits: 10
Module Type: Compulsory
Semester: Third (3rd)
Language: Greek
Aim – Description of the module: The module addresses the stakes of digital preservation of tangible and intangible cultural heritage and its accessibility. After an introduction to the concept of culture and cultural heritage, students are introduced to the cycle of integrated management of cultural content, including digitisation and documentation, storage and management, interconnection and sharing, and promotion and reuse. Using examples from archives, libraries, galleries, museums and archaeological sites, as well as oral tradition, social practices and performing arts and with reference to digitisation and documentation practices (DH50), students are introduced to the management and programming of data capture, collection and interconnection, virtual environments and virtual and augmented reality, with emphasis on user interaction and personalised access. Students are familiarised with the creation of repositories and the use of existing ones, with tools and methods for project implementation and management, as well as good practices for their wide dissemination, promotion and preservation.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
Subjects Covered:
Evaluation: Completion of written assignments during the academic semester which constitute a 40 percent of each student’s grade, if a pass is obtained in the final or repetitive examination. Final exam grades constitute a 60 percent of the students’ final course grade.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this module.
Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s E-Learning Platform and Group Counselling Meetings.
Module Code: PSAE61
ECTS Credits: 10
Module Type: Compulsory
Semester: Third (3rd)
Language: Greek
Aim – Description of the module: In this module students learn about the process of digitization of printed text and the processing of the digitized resources, from the initial stage of OCR to the final stage of electronic/web publication, as well as the processing of text that has been entirely produced electronically. In the context of the module, students have practice on the principles of TEI (Text Encoding Initiative), acquire knowledge about XML that is directly related to TEI encoding, know the importance and function of a schema in the electronic processing of text, the functional structure of text encoding and documentation (e.g. hierarchy of structural information, metadata hierarchy), tagging, and curation (checking, cleaning, reassessing the tagging system) of digital texts. The module also includes elements of digital literary publishing. The module assumes basic knowledge, concepts and terms that students get acquainted with in the context of the DH51 module.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
Subjects Covered:
Evaluation: Completion of written assignments during the academic semester which constitute a 40 percent of each student’s grade, if a pass is obtained in the final or repetitive examination. Final exam grades constitute a 60 percent of the students’ final course grade.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this module.
Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s E-Learning Platform and Group Counselling Meetings.
Module Code: PSAE64
ECTS Credits: 10
Module Type: Elective
Semester: Third (3rd)
Language: Greek
Aim – Description of the module: The aim of the module is to introduce students to the basic concepts of digital storytelling and digital games. The theoretical approach of Digital Storytelling (DST), Game-Based Learning (GBL) and Gamification, on the one hand, and their practical application in DH, on the other, are examined. In the context of this module, the characteristics of DST and digital games will be presented, along with their pedagogical benefits for the development of social and linguistic competences, as well as their place as educational tools in DH. Tools and platforms suitable for the design and development of digital narratives and games will be presented and students will become familiar with their use. Finally, the need for instructional design in integrating and using these tools in a variety of DH subjects will be discussed.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
Subjects Covered:
Evaluation: Completion of written assignments during the academic semester which constitute a 40 percent of each student’s grade, if a pass is obtained in the final or repetitive examination. Final exam grades constitute a 60 percent of the students’ final course grade.
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this module.
Teaching Method: Distance learning using the HOU’s E-Learning Platform and Group Counselling Meetings.
Module Code: PSAEDE
ECTS Credits: 30
Module Type: Compulsory
Semester: Fourth (4th)
Language: Greek
Aim – Description of the module: The presentation of the Postgraduate Diploma Thesis requires the completion of nine modules. The subject of the thesis should be directly related to the topics of the programme and may include the creation of methodologies, applications and specific digital projects. The PDT on DH should be 17,000 to 20,000 words in length.
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.
Learning Outcomes:
After the end of the dissertation the students will be able to:
Prerequisites: The presentation of the Postgraduate Diploma Thesis takes place after the successful completion of the Programme modules.

