Undergraduate Studies
The Department’s undergraduate programme is structured in five academic years and serves the educational needs in the field of visual arts and the wider area of culture.
The painting and sculpture studios and the corresponding orientations occupy a central position in the undergraduate study programme. A series of other studios enrich the programme, providing students with a wide range of expressive medium choice. Our students have at their disposal printmaking and photography studios, installations, video art and digital art studio, animation studio, art applications multimedia lab, stage design studio, graphic arts studio, etc.
A strong element of education, which showcases the distinctive character of the Department is the fact that the studios collaborate on a teaching and thematic level, giving, thus, students the possibility to attend and consult all teaching staff of the Department as far as the development of their work is concerned. Studio courses cover at least 75% of the total credit units in the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).
Correspondingly, the theoretical education with courses spanning over a wide range of cognitive fields (history of art and architecture, museology, anthropology, philosophy-aesthetics) and in programmatic collaboration with the studios completes the visual arts education, offers a sound foundation for reflection and opens new fields for further research and study.
Curriculum
| 1st Year |
| 1st Semester |
| Studio Orientation: Painting I + Free Drawing I or Sculpture I + Free Drawing I |
| Printmaking I |
| History of Art I |
| Anthropology of Art |
| (1 of 3) Foreign Language I: English Foreign Language I: French Foreign Language I: German |
| 2nd Semester |
| Studio Orientation: Painting II+ Free Drawing II or Sculpture II + Free Drawing II |
| Photography I |
| History of Art II |
| Ancient Greek Painting and its Echoes in Later Art |
| History of Architecture I |
| (1 of 3) Foreign Language II: English Foreign Language II: French Foreign Language II: German |
| 2nd Year |
| 3rd Semester |
| Studio Orientation: Painting III or Sculpture III |
| Computer Science for the Arts I |
| Introduction to Digital Art |
| History of Art III |
| Special Topics of Art History I |
| Art and Theory of the Digital World |
| (1 of 3) Foreign Language III: English Foreign Language III: French Foreign Language III: German |
| 4th Semester |
| Studio Orientation: Painting IV or Sculpture IV |
| Video Art-Audiovisual Media I |
| Installations I |
| History of Art IV |
| Elective Courses (1 of 3): 1. Special Issues in Art History II 2. History of Satirical Sketching 3. Museology I |
| (1 of 3) Foreign Language IV: English Foreign Language IV: French Foreign Language IV: German |
| 3rd Year |
| 5th Semester |
| Studio Orientation: Painting V or Sculpture V |
| History of Art V |
| History of Architecture II |
| History of Cinema |
| Elective Studios (1 of 5): 1. Video Art-Audiovisual media II 2. Installations II 3. Painting I or Sculpture I 4. Printmaking II 5. Marble Sculpture I |
| Elective Studios (1 of 4): 1. Photography II 2. Computer Science for the Arts II 3. Digital Art I 4. Animation I |
| 6th Semester |
| Studio Orientation: Painting VI or Sculpture VI |
| History of Art VI |
| Exhibition Curating |
| Elective Courses (1 of 5): 1. Video Art-Audiovisual Media III 2. Installations III 3. Painting II or Sculpture II 4. Printmaking III 5. Marble Sculpture II |
| Elective Courses (1 of 4): 1. Photography III 2. Computer Science for the Arts III 3. Digital Art II 4. Animation II |
| Elective Courses (1 of 5) 1. Specific Issues in Art History III 2. Special Topics of Architecture I 3. History of Greek Art of 19th century 4. Theory of Cinema 5. Specialized Topics in Art & Theory of the Digital World |
| 4th Year |
| 7th Semester |
| Studio Orientation: Painting VII or Sculpture VII |
| School Pedagogy |
| Theory of Art |
| Museum Education |
| Elective Studios (1 of 6): 1. Painting III or Sculpture III 2. Installations IV 3. Video Art-Audiovisual Media IV 4. Printmaking IV 5. Marble Sculpture III 6. Hagiography |
| Elective Studios (1 of 6): 1. Photography IV 2. Computer Science for the Arts IV 3. Digital Art III 4. Animation III 5. Graphic Design 6. Scenography Ι |
| Elective Internship |
| 8th Semester |
| Studio Orientation: Painting VIII or Sculpture VIII |
| Didactics of the Art |
| Special Topics of Theory of Art |
| Folk Art |
| Elective Courses (1 of 6): 1. Painting IV or Sculpture IV 2. Installations V 3. Video Art-Audiovisual Media V 4. Printmaking V 5. Marble Sculpture IV 6. Scenography II |
| Elective Courses (1 of 5): 1. Photography V 2. Computer Science for the Arts V 3. Digital Art IV 4. Satirical Cartoon 5. Illustration-Poster Design |
| Elective Courses (1 of 5): 1. History of the Greek Art of the 20th century 2. Special Topics of the History of Architecture II 3. The Myth in Art and Cinema 4. Museology II /Management of Cultural Heritage 5. Material Civilisation |
| Elective Internship |
| 5th Year |
| 9th Semester |
| Diploma Dissertation (thesis) I |
| Educational Psychology |
| 10th Semester |
| Diploma Dissertation (thesis) II |
| Educational Psychology |