Curriculum
The General Assembly of the Department is responsible for drawing up the Curriculum. The relevant revision is subsequently approved by ASFA’s Dean and by the Senate. The Curriculum is revised on an annual basis and the relevant act is published on the website and in the (digital and printed) Student Handbook of the Department.
Course allocation per semester
Undergraduate courses are allocated per semester as follows:
1st and 2nd Year:
24 required courses (see below)
5th and 7th Semester:
3 lectures and 1 selective seminar (per semester) or
2 lectures, 1 seminar and 1 practical training (5th Semester)
6th and 8th Semester:
3 lectures required and 1 elective seminar (per semester) or
2 lectures and 1 thesis (8th Semester)
ECTS:
240 ects for obtaining a degree
30 ects per semester= 60 per year
All courses of the 1st and 2nd year: 5 ects
1 Lecture: 7 ects
1 Seminar: 9 ects
1 Practical training: 7 ects
1 Thesis: 16 ects (=1 Lecture: 7 ects
credits + 1 Seminar: 9 ects)
The following required courses are offered during the first two years of studies:
1st Semester
Α1 History of Art: Introductory Overview
Α2 History of Ancient Greek Art
Α3 History of Art of Medieval Europe
Α4 History of Aesthetic Theories 1: From the Ancient World to Early Modern Period
Α5 Modern European History
Α6 Art Terminology in English 1
2nd Semester
Β1 History of Art 1: Renaissance and Baroque
Β3 Methodology and Historiography of Art
Β4 History of Aesthetic Theories 2: from Early Modern Period to today
Β5 Contemporary European History
Β6 Art Terminology in English 2
Β8 Modern Art
3rd Semester
Γ1 History of Architecture 1
Γ4 Philosophy of Art
Γ5 European Literature 1: From Romanticism to Naturalism
Γ6 Pedagogy
Γ7 History and Theory of Photography
Γ8 Contemporary Art
4th Semester
Δ1 History of Architecture 2
Δ2 History of Modern Greek Art
Δ3 Art workshop
Δ4 Art Theory and Criticism
Δ5 European Literature 2: Modernism and Avant-garde
Δ6 Psychology of Education
CURRICULUM of the current academic year
Click here to download a copy of the Curriculum (undergraduate course descriptions) of the academic year 2024-2025.
Also, click here for a copy of the Curriculum of the academic year 2023-2024.
See also here the courses descriptions of the 2023-2024 Curriculum.
For the academic year 2024-2025 the following lectures and seminars are offered:
5th and 7th Semester
Lectures
Δ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 615 Academic writing and research
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 002 17th-century Painting in the Low Countries
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 039 The History of Contemporary Art through Exhibitions
Δ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 614 Historical approach of Pedagogical Science in the educational process
Δ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 623 Culture in Context 1
Δ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 622 Gender Theories: Formation, Evolution and Impact
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 018 Teaching Art History
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 041 Shared worlds. Medieval art on the border between Christianity and Islam
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 031 Water as Guide to Art
Δ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 617 History of Exhibition Curating
Δ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 627 The Symbolist Movement in Visual Arts at the End of the 19th Century (1880-1914): Melomania, Decadence and Mysticism
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 037 Introduction to Arab culture and arts
Seminars
Σ-ΦΙ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 705 Colour theories and artistic practices
Σ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 220 Theory and criticism of art in practice
Σ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 929 The Historiography of the Past as History of the Present (late 20th – early 21st century)
Σ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 233 Theory of Art of the Italian Renaissance
Σ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 225 Paleoaesthetics: Cave Paintings of Modern and Contemporary Art
Σ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 234 The History of Performance Art: Performative Trends in 20th and 21st Century Art
Σ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 241 The “Writings of Painters”: Yannis Tsarouchis as an Art Historian
Σ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 239 The Artist on the Big Screen: Film Biographies
Σ-ΦΙ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 717 Philosophy of the image
Σ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 906 The Hidden Life of Works of Art
Σ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 930 Law and Literature
Σ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 925 Art in law: case law issues
Σ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 919 The Art of Bookmaking in the Arab World
Σ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 922 The Music of Painting: From Charles Baudelaire to John Cage
Σ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ-244 The history of modern Greek painting through the digital archive of ERT
PRACTICE (PRA)
6th and 8th Semester
Lectures
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 001 Special Topics in Art History: Teaching Modernism
Δ-ΦΙ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 502 Landscape and garden theories
Δ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 625 Space, time, and sense of self: from Boston and Haiti in the 18th century to Athens and the Black Lives Matter movement in the 21st century
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 043 History of Modern Art 2: from Neoclassicism to Impressionism
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 042 From Gargoyles to Ghosts: The Gothic from Medieval Art to Literature
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 020 Post-war Art in Greece
Δ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 611 Didactic methodology in education
Δ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 624 Culture in Context 2
Δ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 629 Law of Intellectual Property
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 040 European Romanticism in the First Half of the 19th Century
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 028 The Cosmopolitanism of the Hellenistic Era: The Greek World from Alexander to the Fall of the Hellenistic Kingdoms
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 013 Issues in the History of Ancient Art: Transformations of the Classical
Δ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 616 Introduction to the Art of Theatre
Δ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 628 Museology
Δ-ΑΡ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ-105 Historical Avant-Gardes and Architecture of the 20th and 21st Centuries
Seminars
Σ-ΦΙ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 718 Uses and abuses of beauty
Σ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 235 Abstraction and the Cold War: historiography, theory and method
Σ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 207 The illustrated book of the Middle Age: Current research and interpretative approaches
Σ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 228 The body and the expression of emotions in the 17th- century European Painting
Σ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 222 Western European artists in Greece, from the early 19th century to the interwar period
Σ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 221 Art as Ecological Response: Women’s Portraits from Leonardo to Bio Art
Σ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 236 Feminism, Art and Art History from the 1970s to the Present
Σ-ΦΙ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 719 Aesthetics of the postmodern
Σ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 918 “Tracing” the portrait of the artist in European literature
Σ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 927 Law, art and society
Σ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 932 From feminist and queer theory to affect theory
Σ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 910 Contemporary Curatorial Practices
Σ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 243 Teaching visual culture and visual communication
Σ-ΑΡ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 406 Art and Architecture of Medieval Egypt
Σ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 215 Pre-Columbian Cultures and Art
Σ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 240 Issues of Museum Management: The Case of the National Gallery
THESIS (ΠΤΥ)
THESIS: Drafting Guidelines
Curriculum Archive
Information on the Curriculum
The Curriculum includes the titles of compulsory courses, elective compulsory courses, and optional courses (if applicable), along with their content, weekly teaching hours – during which all forms of instructional activity take place – as well as the chronological sequence or interdependence of courses. Students must submit their selection of elective compulsory courses exclusively through the student portal at the beginning of each semester, according to dates announced by the Secretariat.
The allocation of semester courses within the Department’s Curriculum reflects conditions of regular full-time study. It is structured to align with the minimum number of semesters required for degree completion and follows the sequence of prerequisite and dependent courses. The minimum duration of studies in the Undergraduate Programme is four (4) years.
Additionally, the Curriculum includes credit units (ECTS) in accordance with the Ministerial Decision Φ.5/89656/Β3/13.8.2007 of the Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs (Government Gazette B’ 1466). It also outlines the learning outcomes and qualifications acquired through the entire study programme, as well as through each individual course, educational activity, or internship included therein. These are aligned with the National Qualifications Framework, the European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning, and the Qualifications Framework of the European Higher Education Area.
The credit unit system is based on the student’s workload required to complete a learning process. Under this system, 30 ECTS credits are required per semester of study, and 60 ECTS credits per academic year. This is aligned with the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS), applied in European countries participating in the Erasmus+ mobility programme.
The Department’s Curriculum may also include courses belonging to the academic field of another Department. In such cases, the assignment of teaching duties to faculty members from another Department requires a formal proposal by the Assembly of the Department of Theory and History of Art, addressed to the respective Department and Institution to which the instructor belongs.
Click here to download a copy of the Curriculum (undergraduate course descriptions) of the academic year 2024-2025.
Also, click here for a copy of the Curriculum of the academic year 2023-2024.