2018-19

The course introduces students to the chief concepts and principles of demography and to the basic techniques employed in the study of demographic phenomena. Particular emphasis is laid upon the links between demography and biological, historical, social and economic phenomena and the cultural features of various human populations.

The course deals with the main aspects of the Byzantine state and society, including political theory, governmental organization, social structure and economic life. It deals with the course of Byzantine history from its founder, Constantine the Great (324 - 337 AD) to the capture of Constantinople in 1453.

From the 15th to the 18th century, Europe witnessed a series of intellectual, social and economic changes that led to the transformation of old institutions and to the creation of new. The course deals with the factors that contributed to these changes and to the ways in which European social and economic structures and dominant ideologies and beliefs changed.

The aim of the course is to introduce students to quantitative and qualitative research methods in the social sciences. The course consists of the following parts:

Α. Introduction to the concept of academic research

Β. Quantitative research methods

Introduction to Quantitative analysis

Data collection methods

Populations and examples: Sampling methods

Data types. Data analysis.

During the first part of the course, lasting three weeks, the students are introduced, first, to the scholars and their work who have dealt with the history of modern Hellenism from the beginning of the historiography of the Greek nation to the present, second, to the most important scholarly institutions in which the subject is studied and promoted, third, to the academic journals, conferences and symposia that have dealt with the study of the history of modern Hellenism and, fourth, to the types of direct and indirect sources employed by scholars who deal with the subject.