ADMISSION PROCEDURE
Students are admitted according to the results of the National University Entrance Examinations.
ADMISSION OF GRADUATES FROM OTHER UNIVERSITIES
University graduates may be admitted to the Department of History only after they sit succesfully exams in three courses. The details of the exams are set out every year by the General Assembly of the Department. Information may be obtained from the Department secretaries.
Transfers of students from other Universities in Greece or abroad are governed by the Law 1966/1991 as amended by a ministerial decree of 1994 (Νο. Φ.1/83/1365/23-3-94)
DURATION OF STUDIES
Studies in the Department of History last for eight Semesters.
The academic year begins οn 1 September and ends οn 31 August of the next year. The educational task carried out in one academίc year is structured chronologically in two Semesters: the Winter Semester which begins in the second half of September and the Spring Semester which begins in mid-February.
The exact dates are determined each year by the General Assembly of the Department.
Each semester includes at least thirteen (13) full weeks of classes. For students already enrolled, it is considered that if, for any reason whatsoever, the number of hours of lectures which have been held is less than 2/3 of those set out in the programme, the course in question will be considered not to have been taught.
COURSES TAUGHT
The courses taught are either Compulsory (C) or Elective (Ε). Compulsory courses are those which students must pass to receive their degree. Elective courses are those which students select, adapting their studies to their special interests.
Students are considered to have passed a course when they have obtained a semester mark of at least five (5).
SELECTION OF COURSES FOR THE SEMESTER
At the beginning of each semester, students may choose freely the courses they will attend and in which they will be examined. Students choose their elective courses by submitting a relevant declaration to the Secretariat.
Declarations will not be accepted after the deadline, unless they are accompanied by permission from the Department's Curriculum Committee. Submission of the declaration of elective courses gives the student the right to sit for examinations in the courses selected.
SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS
There are three examination periods: in January/February, in June and in September of each year. Exams last for three weeks, except for the June period, when they last for two weeks.
Students who fail the Winter or Spring Semester examinations are entitled to sit for the examinations in the same course in September of the same year. If students do not show up or fail the supplemental examination in September, their failure is final. If the course is compulsory, the student must repeat it in one of the subsequent semesters in which it is taught. If a compulsory course is no longer taught, the student is obliged to replace it with another compulsory course from the curriculum, following written application to the Secretariat. If the course is elective, students are entitled to select some other course from among the electives in the curriculum or repeat the course they failed in a future semester in which it is given, following written declaration to this effect.
STUDENTS IN SPECIAL CATEGORIES
For students in special categories (graduates of other faculties, students who have transferred from other universities in Greece of abroad) who are enrolled in the third semester of studies, comparable courses which they have already passed in their previous Department, may be recognised as equivalent with courses taught in the Department of History, in which case they are exempted from the relevant exams and they keep the marks they have already obtained.
The decision to recognise the equivalence of a course is made by the Department's Curriculum Committee, upon request by the interested student. The request should be accompanied by a copy of the student's degree, a transcript and the contents of the course for which the interested student is seeking recognition of equivalence. The number of equivalent courses cannot exceed five (5).
GRADUATING STUDENTS
Graduating students are those who have completed eight semesters of study from the time of their initial registration (students in special categories are exempted) without having accumulated all the necessary credits or some other of the requirements for obtaining a degree. Until their graduation, the graduating students are regarded as being registered in the eighth semester of studies.
During the two academic years that follow the year in which students complete their compulsory eight semesters of study, the graduating student is entitled to declare any courses he wishes from any semester. During these two academic years, the total number of credits available and the minimum number of credits graduating students are obliged to gather in order to obtain their degree remain those which were in effect during the last year of their compulsory study. After this period ends, the requirements for obtaining a degree are those in effect for students who completed the eight semesters of compulsory study in the academic year during which the graduating student in question is to receive his/her degree.
OBTAINING Α DEGREE
Το obtain their degrees, students are required the following: They must have completed at least eight semesters of study from the date of their initial enrollment. Α semester cannot be considered a semester of study unless the student has submitted a declaration of elective courses or a declaration of repeated courses. If the student is exempted from certain semesters of obligatory study (special categories of students) the degree can be obtained after the completion of the eight (8) semesters.
The student must have passed as many compulsory courses as necessary:
Each semester course gives a certain number of credits. One credit corresponds to one hour of lectures per week for the semester. Students who, for whatever reason, complete the number of credits required to obtain their degree prior to the end of the last semester of their regular study (eight, six or four semesters), cannot graduate before the end of the examination period in the last semester of regular studies in each case (eighth, sixth or fourth after registration).
DEGREE MARKS
Students complete their studies and obtain their degree when they have passed the required number of courses and have obtained the required number of credits. The mark οn the degree is arrived at first by multiplying the marks for each course by the relevant weights and then dividing the resulting product by the number of courses taken. It should be noted that courses with 1 or 2 credits have a weight of 1 while courses with 3 or 4 credits, have a weight of 1.5.
Το calculate the degree mark, marks for all compulsory courses are taken into account. If students have marks in a larger number of courses than required to obtain a degree, the marks for a number of elective courses may not be taken into account in arriving at the degree mark, as long as the credits for the remaining courses are equal to the minimum number required to obtain the degree.
When the number of credits is larger than the required minimum to obtain a degree, even though the number of all courses to which they correspond is the minimum required to obtain the degree, marks for all courses will be taken into account irrespective of the number of credits. Courses which the student has passed abroad within the inter-university student exchange programmes (Erasmus etc.) are also calculated in arriving at the degree mark.
Scale of marks: 8.51-10 = "Excellent"; 6.51-8.50 ="Very good"; 5.00-6.50= "Good". The minimum degree mark is five (5).
POST-GRADUATE STUDENTS
Doctoral dissertations are being prepared by about 100 post-graduate researchers. The following Theses have been successfully defended in the Department:
P. Alibrantis, "The History of the Teaching of Philosophy in the Ionian Academy. The Teaching of Andreas Kalvos, 1840-41" (1996)
Α. Christou, "Sculpture in the lonian Islands during the l9th Cent." (1995)
Th. Kritikos, "History of Physics in Greece,1903-1930" (1995)
J. Laskaratos, "Maladies of Byzantine Emperors" (1995)
Olga Pachi, "From the Feudal System of Ownership to the Agricultural Question of Corfu, 1864-1925" (1996)
E. Pantazis, “Geographic and Cartographic Orientation of the Ancient Greeks” (1998)
Vassiliki Psimouli, "Souli and Souliotes: Economy, Society and Demography" (1996)
HOLIDAYS
28 October (National Holiday)
17 November (Commemoration of the Polytechnic uprising)
12 December (St Spyridon, patron saint of Corfu)
21 December - 7 January (Cristmas and New Year)
30 January - Feast of the Three Bishops (patron saints of Education)
25 March (National Holiday)
Shrove Monday
From Monday of Holy Week to the Sunday after Easter (Easter holidays)
21 May (Local Celebration, Union of the Ionian Island with Greece)