Teaching

Information on courses, graduation theses,
essay guidelines

Courses

The undergraduate courses I teach in the School of Journalism and Mass Media Studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki are included in the "Mass Communication Studies" curriculum. My graduate courses are included in the curriculum "Communication and Culture". In the courses' webpages you will find a general description for each course, information about its status in the curriculum, as well as about the suggested literature, the evaluation criteria and the methods of examination:

A. Undergraduate courses

Mass Communication and the Arts (ΜΜ0200)

Art and Globalization (ΜΜ1400)

Music and Mass Media (ΜΜ1500)

Music Industry and Culture (ΜΜ1600)

B. Graduate courses

Cultures of Cultural Production and Consumption (E206)

New Technologies and Cultural Organizations (E204). In collaboration with A. Veglis and G. Kalliris

C. International programme (ERASMUS)

Globalization and the Arts (IP1100)

Details about the next exams, dates, subjects etc. you will find in the announcements page (provided that the exam dates have been announced).

Graduation theses (BA or MA)

I can supervise graduation theses on subjects related either to some of the specific courses I teach in the undergraduate or graduate program, or to the broader field "Sociology of the Arts and Mass Communication". In any case, the suggested subject / topic / theme must concern the relation between the arts and the mass communication phenomena, the cultural (or creative) industries, the production or the consumption of culture seen in a sociological perspective.

The thesis may be:

• Theoretical or empirical research, or a combination of both.
• Presentation and critical analysis of a given approach (theoretical or methodological), or of a given work included in the specified fields.
• Critical analysis and presentation of empirical research, related to the acceptable subjects.
• Literature review of a given issue/topic/subject.
• Empirical research (for graduate students).

Requirements:

1. The successful examination on at least one of the elected courses on the broader field "Sociology of the Arts and Mass Communication" with a minimum grade of eight out of ten or - alternatively - an average at least of seven in more than one courses of the field (for undergraduate students).
2. The submission - after consultation and discussion - of a written proposal presenting briefly (up to 500 words):
   a) The subject of the thesis
   b) The main research questions related to the thesis
   c) Any thoughts and/or suggestions about the research method(s)
   d) Any previous experience on the subject or relevant projects
   e) A rough schedule of the project (it does not need to be detailed and accurate)
   

The exact title is specified in consultation with the supervisor. It is possible to submit more than one alternative proposals. Consultations and preliminary discussions are carried out regardless of the formal deadlines defined by the Secretariat and the Study Guide.

Essay guidelines

Essays should be printed on A4 pages with 2.5cm margins at each side of the text and line spacing 1.5. The pages must be numbered.

The author(s) name(s) - and for the ERASMUS students the Institution and the country they come from as well - should appear on the first page of the essay. The title of the essay should also appear on the first page.

Citation and references (Harvard system):

Citations of references should appear in the text (not as footnotes), enclosed in parentheses. Please, write only the author's last name, followed by the year of publication and the page numbers.
Example: (Castoriades, 1981: 45-49)

Guidelines for references:

The complete list of references should appear at the end of the text. Please, write the references data according to the following patterns:

• Books by only one author:
  Castoriades Corneil (1981): La Constitution Imaginaire de la Société. Athens: Rappa.
• Books by several authors:
  Bourdieu Pierre, Hans Haacke (1995): Free Exchange. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
• Papers published in journals or chapters in collective works:
  

  Kaden Christian (1997): "Musikwissenschaft und Soziologie: Horizonte, Perspektiven". Acta Musicologica, issue 69, pp. 29-40.

  Kawasaki Kenichi (1996): "Art and Cultural Policy in Japan". In Art and Business. An International Perspective on Sponsorship (editor: Martorella Rosanne). Westport, Connecticut, London: Praeger, pp. 195-202.

• Web page references:
  Family and first name(s) of the author(s), title of the text, complete URL and the date of access. If no author is indicated in the web page, the name of the institution, organization etc. that publishes the text should be used instead.
  Examples:

  Smiers Joost (n.d.): Copyrights: A Choice of no Choice for Artists and Third World Countries; The Public Domain is Loosing Anyway. URL: http://www.constantvzw.com/copy.cult/copyrights.pdf (25/6/2004).

  UNESCO (1950): Records of the General Conference of UNESCO - Florence 1950. Resolutions. URL: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0011/001145/114589e.pdf (28/11/2005).

  Attention: You have to indicate the exact page numbers in case the reference file is in PDF or Word format (i.e. in case there is page numbering in the original file).

Footnotes:

Footnotes are used only to give detailed explanation or additional information that does not need to appear in the main text. Please do not use them for references. Footnote numbers usually appear in the text as exponents. Please, write the footnote text in the footer of the corresponding pages. Footnote font size usually is smaller than the main text.

1. Absence of citations; references that have not been cited in the text or citations not included in the references at the end of the text. It is necessary to cite and refer the details of all the sources used in your essay. Please, do not use sources without detailed references. You should also avoid using references not cited in the text.
2. Disagreement between the cited references in the text and the list of references at the end of the text. The literature you refer to must have been used in your text.
3. Confusion about the origin of the discourse (ideas, arguments etc.). It is necessary to distinguish clearly your own from other people's ideas and arguments, and make clear when you are citing other people's ideas in your own words. Passages used verbatim should be enclosed in quotation marks and accompanied by the corresponding reference(s).
4. Unordered list of references. The reference list must be in alphabetical order using the names of the authors in a single list. There is no need to have different lists by type of source (e.g. articles, books, webpages). You may use a detailed guide for bibliographic references with examples for all types of sources, such as the one found here.