International Summer School for Greek Language

Updated: Mar 22, 2000

30 July - 27 August 2000
Thessaloniki - Greece

Programme Details
Daily programme Lectures in Greek history and culture	Programme details Parallel activities

Daily programme

Participants in the 28th International Summer School for Greek Language, History and Culture will follow an intensive language teaching programme for four hours daily, six days a week.

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Language classes are obligatory; they are offered at many levels and in small groups, so that beginners and advanced students may practise both the written and spoken word more effectively. There is also a special literature class in which students study contemporary Greek prose and poetry.

The Greek language courses take place daily at the Xenia Helios Hotel from 8.00 to 11.30.

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Lectures on Greek history and culture

As well as language classes, the International Summer School offers participants three series of lectures in Greek history and culture:

I	Ancient Greece	Ancient Greek Culture Classical Archaeology
II	Byzantine Greece	Byzantine History and Art Students will visit the most important Byzantine churches in Thessaloniki, where classes will be held.
III	Modern Greece	Contemporary Literature History of the 19th and 20th Centuries Relations between Greece and other Balkan States Folklore, Folk Art

Courses in Greek history and culture take place daily from 11.30 to 13.30 at the Xenia Helios Hotel.

Note: Students may attend one of the above lecture series each week.

Weekly schedule of lectures
First week 1-5 August 2000	Ancient Greek Art: From Attic Geometric to the Vergina Finds (In English) Lecturer Stephi Korti-Kondi
	The Literature of Thessaloniki: Landmarks, Trends, Perspectives (In Greek) Professor Georges Freris
Second week 7-11 August 2000	Modern Greek Folklore: Tradition and Change (In English) Mrs Eleonora Skouteri-Didaskalou
	Greek Society and Prose-writing: The George II - Metaxas Dictatorship and the Second World War (1936-1944) (In Greek) Professor K. A. Dimadis
Third week 14-19 August 2000	Greece, History and Politics: Continuities and Discontinuities (In English) Ass. Prof. I. Stefanidis
	Greece and the Balkans after the Collapse of Existing Socialism (In Greek) Lecturer Spyridon Sfetas
Fourth week 21-25 August 2000	Byzantine Art: The Monuments of Thessaloniki (In Greek or English) Olga Fota, Archaeologist

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Programme details

Language classes are taught by teachers who specialise in teaching Greek as a foreign language; lectures on history and culture are given by experienced university professors and specialists.
Students who are accepted for the 2000 programme should report at the Xenia Helios Hotel, Peraia, Thessaloniki, on Sunday 30 July.
At 8.15 on Monday 31 July students will take a language test. Complete beginners are exempt from the test. Participants will be placed in groups according to their knowledge of Greek. Group lists will be posted in the evening of the same day.
The opening ceremony will take place on 31 July at 19.30.
The main part of the programme, i.e. language classes, cultural lectures and other activities, will begin the following day, Tuesday 1 August.
The programme will finish on Sunday 27 August.
At the end of the programme a certificate will be issued to those who participate satisfactorily in the language classes and who perform satisfactorily in the final written examination.
Students who require a certificate relating to the cultural courses which they have followed will receive this after an appropriate written examination.

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Parallel activities

Pella Royal hunt, mosaic floor, 4th cent. BC

The programme includes visits to Amphipolis, Philippi & Kavala, Pella, Aigai (Vergina) & Dion, Meteora, and Mount Athos. Details of other cultural and recreational activities (lectures, discussions, folk-dancing classes, museum visits, guided tours, ancient drama, concerts, shadow theatre, etc.) are included in the printed programme which students will receive on arrival.

Vergina Wall-painting on the attic of the tomb of Philip II

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Updated: Mar 22, 2000