2020-21

The course aims to deepen the knowledge acquired by the student during the course 'Introduction to Demography' during the first year. If fewer than 20 students take the course, then the course will take the form of completing a project. The information which such projects are to use will be found on the websites of relevant national statistic services, of the UN, of Eurostat and in other sources and academic publications. The course includes a theoretical section, involving teaching sessions by the instructor.

The first part of the course deals with the nature and methodology of ancient Greek history, with emphasis being placed upon the nature and range of coverage provided by the primary sources and thus on the appropriate approach and use of such sources by the ancient historian. The second part of the course offers a survey of ancient history from the Archaic period to Hellenistic times. Here stress will be laid upon how the subject matter of the survey is affected by the nature of the primary sources.

The aim of the course is to introduce first-year students to the various aspects of folklore, the subject itself, the content of folklore, its aims, its history, the methods it employs and to the basic bibliography. There will be extensive reference to the path followed in Greece by folklore, from the observation and recording of folklore in antiquity, during the Byzantine to the post-Byzantine and modern period. The course will also make reference to how folklore developed in the rest of Europe, America and internationally before and after the Second World War.

Geography is the study of interactions between environment and society. As one of the social sciences, geography is influenced by other sciences, such as sociology, history, economy and political sciences. The result is the emergence of many geographies, that is, social geography, historical geography, political geography and so on, which result in many ways of studying complex geographic (spatio-temporal) phenomena.

The course consists of a general survey of the history and cultural development of the peoples of the Balkans with emphasis upon the Ottoman period until 1878. In particular, the course deals with the position of the peoples of the Balkans in the political, social, economic and cultural context of the Ottoman Empire, their intellectual development, the rise of national movements and the path towards the foundation of nation states.