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 Art History: An Introductory Survey
Α2 History of Ancient Art
Α4 History of Aesthetic Theories 1: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment
Α5 Modern European History
Α6 Art Terminology in English 1
Α8 History of Byzantine Art
2nd Semester
Β9 History of Art in the Western Middle Ages
Β10 History of Early Modern Art 1: Renaissance
Β4 History of Aesthetic Theories 2: From the Enlightenment to the Present Day
Β5 Contemporary European History
Β6 Art Terminology in English 2
Β8 Modern Art
3rd Semester
Γ1 History of Architecture 1
Γ4 Philosophy of Art
Γ9 History of Early Modern Art 2: Baroque
Γ10 History of Modern Art 3: From Neoclassicism to Impressionism
Γ12 Methodology of Art History: After Iconology
Γ8 Contemporary Art
4th Semester
Δ1 History of Architecture 2
Δ7 History of Art in the Greek World, c. 1750–1950
Δ3 Art Workshop
Δ4 Art Theory and Criticism
Δ8 Art in Greece after the Second World War
Δ9 Research Methodology and Academic Writing
CURRICULUM of the current academic year
Click here to download a copy of the Curriculum (undergraduate course descriptions) of the academic year 2026-2027.
For the academic year 2026-2027 the following lectures and seminars are offered:
5th and 7th Semester
Lectures
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ-006 History and Theory of Photography [THE COURSE WILL NOT BE OFFERED DURING THE CURRENT SEMESTER.]
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 039 The History of Contemporary Art through Exhibitions
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 045 History of Performance: Performative Tendencies in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Art
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 023 Art History and Institutions
Δ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 630 Pedagogy
Δ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 614 A Historical Approach to Pedagogical Science in the Educational Process
Δ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 622 Gender Theories: Formation, Evolution and Impact on the Arts
Δ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 623 Culture in Context 1
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 041 Shared Worlds: Medieval Art on the Border between Christianity and Islam
Δ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 628 Museology
Δ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 631 Introduction to Exhibition Curating
Δ-ΑΡ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 107 From the Monastery to the Gothic Cathedral: The Architecture of the Medieval West [THE COURSE WILL NOT BE OFFERED DURING THE CURRENT SEMESTER.]
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 049 Renaissance in North Europe
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 047 Modern Art in Early Twentieth-Century Greece [THE COURSE WILL NOT BE OFFERED DURING THE CURRENT SEMESTER.]
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 040 European Romanticism in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century [THE COURSE WILL NOT BE OFFERED DURING THE CURRENT SEMESTER.]
Δ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 632 Museums, Exhibitions and New Technologies
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 050 Artistic Production and Gender in Early Modern Europe
Seminars
Σ-ΦΙ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 705 Colour Theories and Artistic Practices
Σ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 233 Art Theory of the Italian Renaissance
Σ-ΦΙ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 717 Philosophy of the Image
Σ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 925 Art in Law: Issues in Case Law
Σ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 254 Secular Art in the Medieval West: Courtly Art and Everyday Life in the Cities of the Late Middle Ages [THE COURSE WILL NOT BE OFFERED DURING THE CURRENT SEMESTER.]
Σ-TE-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 255 The Renaissance in Venice
Σ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 252 Greekness and Modernity: Art in Interwar Greece [THE COURSE WILL NOT BE OFFERED DURING THE CURRENT SEMESTER.]
Σ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 220 Art Theory and Criticism in Practice
Σ-ΑΡ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 407 “Saying One Thing, Doing Another”: The Creator, Their Words and Their Work
Σ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 933 The Image as Historical Source and as Act: War and Colonial Gazes in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Σ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 934 Gendered Bodies: Technology and Transformations of the Human
Σ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 930 Law and Literature
Σ-AΡ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 408 The architecture of European palaces of the early modern period
Σ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 256 Symbolism and fin de siècle: image, myth, and interiority in modern European art [THE COURSE WILL NOT BE OFFERED DURING THE CURRENT SEMESTER.]
Σ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 935 Museum Education
PRACTICE (PRA)
6th and 8th Semester
Lectures
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 051 Art since 1975
Δ-ΦΙ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 502 Landscape and Garden Theories
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 052 Teaching Art History in Secondary Education
Δ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 633 Educational Psychology
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 053 Biography and criticism
Δ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 624 Culture in Context 2
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 013 Issues in the History of Ancient Art: Transformations of the Classical
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 054 Ideological Uses of the Past: Neoclassicism in Europe and the United States
Δ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 634 The Post-War World in the Twentieth Century
Δ-ΑΡ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 108 Ottoman Architecture: History, Forms and Heritage
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 044 Art History: From Impressionism to the Artistic Movements of the Interwar Period
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 046 Post-war art and institutional criticism
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 055 From Baroque to Rococo
Δ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 048 Painting as a tool of propaganda during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation
Seminars
Σ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 257 The Medieval Illuminated Book: Current Research and Interpretative Approaches
Σ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 235 Abstract Art and the Cold War: Historiography, Theory and Method
Σ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 936 The Gendered Body in Contemporary Theory
Σ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 927 Law, Art and Society
Σ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 258 Iconographic themes of the Renaissance
Σ-ΑΡ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 409 The Ottoman City: Space, Society and Representations
Σ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 253 Art and architecture in the palace chapels of the 16th and 17th centuries
Σ-ΦΙ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 718 Uses and Abuses of Beauty
Σ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 251 Contemporary Approaches to the Methodology of Art History
Σ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 937 Designing an Exhibition
Σ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 248 Conceptual Tendencies in Greek Art of the 1970s: The “Processes–Systems” Group through the Archives
Σ-ΑΡ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 410 Comfort and Kitsch: Documenting the Tastes of the Post-War “Middle Class”
Σ-ΦΙ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 719 Aesthetics of the Postmodern
Σ-ΑΝ-ΦΙΤΑΕ 938 Maps and/in Literature
Σ-ΤΕ-ΙΣΘΕΤΑ 259 17th-Century Italian Painting: Theory and Criticism
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.