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The results of the National University Entrance Examinations provide the basis for student admission.

University graduates may be admitted to the Department of History only after successfully sitting 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 Law 1966/1991 as amended by Ministerial decree of 1994 (No. Φ. 1/83/1365/23-3-94)

Studies in the Department of History last for eight Semesters.

The academic year begins on 1 September and ends on 31 August of the following year. The educational programme carried out over one academic 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 are less than 2/3 of those set out in the programme, the course in question will be considered not to have been taught.

The courses taught are either Compulsory (C) or Elective (E). 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).

At the beginning of each semester students may make a free choice of 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.

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 supplementary 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.

For students in special categories (graduates of other faculties, students who have transferred from other universities in Greece or abroad) who enroll in the third semester of studies, comparable courses which they have already passed in their previous Department, may be recognized as equivalent with courses taught in the Department of History, in which case they are exempted from the relevant exams and may keep the marks they have already obtained.

The decision to recognize 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 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 other requirements for obtaining a degree. Until their graduation, 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.

To obtain their degrees, the following are required of students: They must have completed at least eight semesters of study from the date of their initial enrollment. A 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:

1) to have completed the minimum number of credits from compulsory courses as provided by the curriculum in effect during the four academic years of obligatory study or from those which were taught during the same period of time, and

2) to have made up, with electives, a total of at least 156 credits. 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).

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 on 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.

To 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	ECTS Scale
8.51-10 = «Excellent»	10-9: A «Excellent»
6.51-8.50 =«Very good»	8-7: B «Very Good»
5.00-6.50= «Good»	6: C «Good»
	5: D «Good»
	4: F «Fail»

The minimum degree mark is five (5). The basic teaching method is lectures, however there also courses conducted through research. All courses are equal in duration and credits (3 hours = 3 credits).

There are no prerequisite courses; however students in more advanced years must have the relative knowledge required for attending their courses. At the end of each semester there is an exam for each course. For Erasmus students the same rules apply as for normally registered students.

Doctoral dissertations are being prepared 127 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)

Eust. Birtachas, Paolo Sarpi and the Greek-Orthodox Venetians between Rome and Venice (2001)

A. Kotsonis, The heritage and the wine: An Anthropological - Historical aproach to a Greek - Catholic village in Hungary (2000)

K. Lambrinos, Society and Administration in Venetian Rethymnon, 1571-1646, (1999)

Alex. Malliaris, The structure of social space in NW Peloponnesus during the period of Venetian occupation (1687-1715) (2001)

Olga Pachi, From the Feudal System of Ownership to the Agricultural Question of Corfu, 1864-1925 (1996)

E. Pantazis, The Geographic and Cartographic Orientation of the Ancient Greeks (1998)

O. Pavlogiannis, The evolution of ideas about athletics during the Hellenistic and imperial period (2000)

Nik. Tombros, Mονές και μοναχοί στον ελλαδικό χώρο. Δημογραφική μελέτη στην Πελοπόννησο, στη Στερεά Eλλάδα και στα Nησιά του Kεντρικού και Nοτίου Aιγαίου, στο πρώτο μισό του 19ου αιώνα (2001)

The Department has its own library consisting of about 16,000 volumes, in Greek and other languages (English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Turkish etc.). The book collection is supplemented by 175 periodical titles (40 in Greek and 135 in other languages) and a significant collection of modem maps, mainly historical, political and geophysical maps of Greece and the world.

The subject matter of the Department’ s library material covers all the humanities, with particular emphasis on Greek and world history, the social sciences, art, religion, philosophy, and Greek and Latin language and literature. It should be noted that the collection includes rare old books that circulated illegally during War years, etc. There are also full series of the Greek and Latin Patrologies (Migne) and the Acta Sanctorum on microfilms or microfiches.

The library collection is available to all members of the University community (faculty, graduate researchers, students, administrative, technical and other staff) for on-the-spot study in the reading room, for borrowing or photocopies. Persons who do not belong to the university community may use the library material only in the reading room.

The Department library has a reading room to accommodate 30 readers. Access to the books in the library may be:

a) direct, by the users’ direct access to the stacks, where the books are grouped according to subject matter, and

b) indirect through the fully computerized system.

There are special stands for periodicals where the most recent issues or volumes are displayed, and the Cardex, in which all magazines and newspapers are recorded whether or not the subscription continues. Also at the disposal of users is the «Collective catalogue of periodicals and newspapers» of the libraries of the Ionian University Departments of History F.L.T.I. and the «Collective catalogue of periodicals in Greek scientific libraries» of the National Research Institute which includes all university library periodicals.

The library of the History Department is open daily from 8:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. throughout the academic year; during the vacation periods it is open from 8:00 to 2:30 p.m.

Teaching staff and students have access to the extremely rich collections of the Historical Archives of Corfu, as well as to the rich library and archives of the Reading Society of Corfu and the Society for Corfiot Studies.

For the support of its educational and research work the Department has at the disposal of teaching staff and the Workshops:

– A reader-printer for microfilms and microfiches, as well as simple microfilm readers.

The academic year is structured into two semesters of 13 weeks of classes each. For each semester there will be a three-week examination period. During the month of September, there will be a supplementary examination period.