OPTIONAL COURSES
Optional Foreign Language Academic Skills Courses
The course aims at developing academic skills in the English language, familiarizing students with academic texts, as well as developing receptive and productive skills in English as an academic language. It focuses on study skills, familiarization of students with the structure of academic articles, the conventions of academic writing, basic academic writing skills and strategies (such as note-taking, summarizing, paraphrasing, paraphrasing). In addition, the syllabus of the course includes writing professional e-mails, CVs and cover letters as well conducting oral presentations in academic and professional fields. The teaching material is based on authentic academic texts and on topics related to the main academic subjects of the Department’s studies so that students become able to effectively work with international literature in English, understand and produce academic texts in English in the context of their scientific fields, focusing on the contact of languages and cultures as well as on transnational and intercultural communication.
Tutors Anastasia Gaidartzis
The course aims to develop language skills in English as a (Multi)Lingua Franca as well as intercultural awareness and competence in order to enable students to communicate effectively in multicultural environments. Through the multilingual approach of English as ELF (English as a Lingua Franca) and the CLIL method, the Content and Language Integrated Learning, language skills in English for intercultural communication will be developed through the parallel study of relevant concepts and issues involved. Upon completion of the course, students are expected to be able to function in the international landscape of modern superdiversity appropriately, having developed awareness and skills of an intercultural speaker and communicative competence in English as a (multi)lingua franca.
Tutors Anastasia Gaidartzis
The course aims to develop more targeted academic skills in the English language which concern conducting a research paper. It focuses on the structure and writing of research papers, using sources from literature and reference systems – conducting critical literature review, formulating research questions, writing and presenting results and conclusions as well as avoiding plagiarism in accordance with research ethics principles. The teaching material includes topics directly related to the Department’s scientific subjectς permeated by the intercultural dimension and aims to support students in conducting and writing bibliographic essays and research papers within the context of their scientific fields.
Tutors Anastasia Gaidartzis
The course aims to introduce and familiarize students with basic terms and specific vocabulary in English in the context of the subjects of their studies within the scope of English for Specific purposes (ESP), using also CLIL. Through the study of academic and scientific texts on main topics of the Department’s study subjects, students will become familiar with basic concepts and terms in the English language in the fields of language studies, intercultural communication and literary studies targeting their own needs. The teaching material includes academic texts from literature in English used in the main subjects of their studies and it is supported with the use of additional material, such as videos, audio texts, multimodal material and language exercises.
Tutors: Anastasia Gaidartzis
Optional Digital Skills Courses
The course familiarizes students with the basic tools and applications available in the university.
By the end of the course, using individual workstations, students will be able to: communicate via e-mail and configure mail client applications, gain secure access to the University’s services via VPN, browse the online library of the UTH and search for scientific publications, use the eClass educational content management software, connect to and use distant learning platforms, install and use Office 365 and alternative open-source softwares, manage files and folders, both online and offline, perform basic numerical calculations, store data and present their results.
Διδάσκοντες: Evangelos Karamoustos
Throughout the course, students are introduced to the use of new communication technologies and multimedia. They discover the evolution of computer technology from its inception to the present day and the upcoming developments in the future (e.g., robotics and artificial intelligence). They are encouraged to consider possible effects of the use of computers and social networking tools on social matters and become aware of ethical and security of data issues (Security and cryptography).
Tutors: Evangelos Karamoustos
The students are taught the basic text editing, formatting, editing and presentation programs (WORD, GOOGLE DOCS, POWERPOINT, LATEX) in order to be used for writing scientific texts – papers – articles.
By the end of the course, students will be able to understand basic text formatting tools, convert text files to other file formats, use preview and print functions, understand the structure and how to write a scientific article, handle presentation programs and write bibliographic references with the APA system.
Tutors: Evangelos Karamoustos
The course introduces students to the basic principles and methods governing statistical analysis (descriptive and inductive statistics), in order to understand how to handle research data.
Utilizing widely used statistical programs ( EXCEL – SPSS – R ), students learn different procedures of searching, collecting and processing quantitative and qualitative data. This is also accomplished through the use of exercises with real or quasi research examples.
By the end of the course, students will be able to understand basic concepts of statistics, derive research hypotheses (e.g., through the study of the literature or topics of scientific interest), test these hypotheses through the corresponding data analysis methods (e.g., T-test, ANOVAs), and finally interpret and discuss the results.
Tutors: Evangelos Karamoustos