CHC-7 Master’s Thesis

CHC-7 Master’s Thesis

COURSE INFORMATION

Learning outcomes:

Students obtain knowledge, develop skills and will:

·         Show the ability to study political, social, cultural and intellectual processes of the past.

·         Show the ability to choose the appropriate disciplinary theory and methodology for collecting and analyzing data and managing their research.

·         Assess critically primary sources and bibliography and understand the complexity their production involves in diverse social and cultural milieux.

·         Overview with accuracy scholarship on a specific subject.

·         Carry out independent and innovative research by using appropriate methodology, collecting the relevant primary and secondary materials, and critically evaluating them.

·         Show the ability to present research in clear prose in accordance with scholarly conventions and in a consistent manner.

·         Expose confidently and precisely during the oral examination the subject matter, methodology and contribution of the research undertaken.

General Competences : 

Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology.

Working independently.

Criticism and self-criticism.

Production of free, creative and inductive thinking.

Production of new research ideas.

School:

Social Sciences

Academic Unit:

Social Anthropology and History

Level of studies:

Postgraduate

Course code:

CHC-7

Semester:

Independent teaching activities

Lectures:

Weekly teaching hours

Credits

15

Course type:

Special background, specialised general knowledge.

Prerequisite courses:

Students are expected to have successfully completed all five (5) courses offered in the 1st and 2nd semester and participate in the Workshop where they present early stages of their dissertation at the end of the 2nd Semester.

Language of instruction and examinations:

The Master’s Thesis can be written either in Greek or in English. Students are required to sit in an oral examination (viva) by three examiners. The oral examination is conducted in Greek.

Teacher:

Is the course offered to erasmus students:

No