Incoming students

Coordinator for incoming students

Assistant Professor Eleni Tympa

Email: eltympa@ihu.gr

Tel: +30 2310 013488

Office: 1^st floor, building “Preschool Education”, International Hellenic University, Alexandria Campus, Sindos, Thessaloniki

Offered courses (Pdf)

General information on Study Guide of the School of Early Childhood Education

For receiving a Bachelor Degree from the School of Early Childhood Education, studies must last, at least, 8 semesters (4 years), and successfully 240 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) should be collected. Specifically, it includes:

(a) twenty-six (26) courses that are Compulsory (C), twenty-nine (29) that are Elective Compulsory (EC), twenty-three (23) Elective Compulsory Seminars (with mandatory attendance) thirty-one (31) Elective Compulsory Thesis Seminars (with mandatory attendance).

(b) the Thesis and

(c) the Internship – Applied Activities.

The Compulsory Core Courses cover the subjects of all scientific areas of the Department, which are considered necessary for the scientific training of the students.

The category of Optional Compulsory Courses consists of courses from all scientific disciplines treated by the Department.

The Foreign Language module is included in the Core Compulsory Courses and in the Optional Compulsory Courses.

In particular, the structure of the courses by semester of study is presented in Table 1 below:

Table 1. Courses offered per semester of study

• Research Project Seminars included in this semester give the student the opportunity to choose one (1) seminar course from a list of disciplines, which may be updated by decision of the Department Assembly depending on the academic staff of the Department.

The list of available elective Required Courses to be taught is updated by decision of the Department Assembly each semester, depending on the academic staff of the Department.

The credit hours (ECTS) of the courses are proportional to the workload of the students (1 credit hour corresponds to 25 hours of work). Specifically, both the Compulsory and the Optional Compulsory courses correspond to six (6) credits (ECTS) each, with the exception of the Practical Training which offers 24 credits (ECTS), the Research Seminars which offer 12 credits (ECTS) and the Thesis which is credited with 18 credits (ECTS). Each academic semester includes educational activities which are credited with 30 ECTS credits.

Course types

The courses of the Undergraduate Programme are classified into the following categories1:

General Background Courses: These are those courses that constitute a continuation and extension of high school knowledge and/or are compulsory courses that are prerequisites for other courses. Courses which, although not directly related to the science covered by the curriculum, nevertheless constitute the necessary prior scientific knowledge necessary for the understanding of subjects directly related to it.

Courses in a scientific area (specialised background): These are those courses which refer to fields of knowledge directly related to the scientific subject of the programme of study.

Skills Development Courses: Courses which do not aim at providing scientific knowledge in the subject area of the curriculum but at cultivating and developing other skills (e.g. entrepreneurship, foreign language, work placements).

For further information on each subject, please follow the link here.

Holidays

During the Winter and Spring semesters there are no classes or exams:

1. Winter semester

National “OΧΙ” holiday 28^th of October

Anniversary of Athens Polytechnic Uprising 17^th of November

Christmas holidays 24^th of December to 6^th of January

1. Spring semester

Clean (Ash) Monday 3^rd of March 2025

National holiday 25^th of March

Easter holiday 14^th of April to 27^th of April 2025

1^st May

Holly Spirit holiday 9^th of June 2025

1. Local holidays

26^th of October – Religious holiday of Saint Dimitrios, Patron Saint of Thessaloniki