Reception of first-year students in the FOREIGN LANGUAGE BA PROGRAM IN THE ARCHEOLOGY, HISTORY AND LITERATURE OF ANCIENT GREECE

The reception of the first years of the BA IN THE ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY, AND LITERATURE OF ANCIENT GREECE Program for the academic year 2024-25 took place on Monday, September 30, 2024, in the Central Building of NKUA.

Since its establishment in 2019, the Program has welcomed over 100 students from 25 different countries of the world (from Egypt, Albania, and Turkey to China, the USA, Canada, and Australia). At the same time, it has received over 60 visiting students from Chinese and US Universities for one or two academic semesters.

Last June, the first 12 students graduated from the Program, i.e. the first citizens of foreign countries who completed a four-year degree in a Foreign Language Study Program in our country.

The Rector of NKUA, Professor of Medicine Gerasimos Siasos, the Vice-rector of Academic Affairs, International Relations and Outreach, Professor of Latin Literature Sofia Papaioannou, the Dean of the School of Philosophy, Professor of Spanish and Hispanic-American Culture, Dimitrios Drosos, and the Program’s Director Professor of Classical Archaeology Dimitris Plantzos, and the former Director, Professor of Latin Literature Eleni Karamalegkou attended the ceremony.

Professor Plantzos emphasized the will of the Program to further expand its international outreach, with the help of University Administration and the necessary assistance by the State, while he mentioned that the Program was recently certified by the Hellenic Authority for Higher Education (H.A.H.E.) as fully complying with the standards and principles defined by national and E.U. law for Foreign Language Study Programs.

The twenty new students enrolled in their 1st year, as well as the other twenty expected as visitors for the academic year 2024-25, will attend an intensive program of lectures, seminars, and on-site classes in museums and archaeological sites around Greece.