Constitutional Law


  1. GENERAL
SCHOOL SOCIAL POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT SOCIAL POLICY
LEVEL OF STUDIES LEVEL 6
COURSE CODE 41 SEMESTER 2nd & 4th
COURSE TITLE Constitutional Law
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
If the ECTS Credits are distributed in distinct parts of the course e.g. lectures, labs etc. If the ECTS Credits are awarded to the whole course, then please indicate the teaching hours per week and the corresponding ECTS Credits.
TEACHINGHOURSPERWEEK ECTSCREDITS
Lectures and Practice Exersises 3 6
     
     
Please, add lines if necessary.Teaching methods and organization of the course are described in section 4.    
COURSE TYPE

Background, General Knowledge, Scientific Area, Skill Development

 General Knowledge
PREREQUISITES:

 

No
TEACHING & EXAMINATION LANGUAGE: Greek
COURSE OFFERED TO ERASMUSSTUDENTS: No
COURSE URL:  https://eclass.duth.gr/courses/438171/
  1. LEARNING OUTCOMES
Learning Outcomes
Please describe the learning outcomes of the course: Knowledge, skills and abilities acquired after the successful completion of the course.
 The subject of the course is the examination of the constitutional rules that regulate the organization and operation of the legal state order.

The course attempts to present the organizational bases of the regime and the operation of the direct organs of the State and in particular, the Electoral Body, the Parliament, the President of the Republic and the Government, while also examining the constitutional framework of the Public Administration and the organization of courts.

Upon completion of the course students should be able to:

(a) To describe the meaning of the constitution, the content and the function of the organizational bases of the state – fundamental constitutional principles.

(b) Understand the relationship between the above authorities.

(c) To know the composition and responsibilities of the direct organs of the State.

General Skills
Name the desirable general skills upon successful completion of the module
Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information,

ICT Use

Adaptation to new situations

Decision making

Autonomous work

Teamwork

Working in an international environment

Working in an interdisciplinary environment

Production of new research ideas

Project design and management

Equity and Inclusion

Respect for the natural environment

Sustainability

Demonstration of social, professional and moral responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues

Critical thinking

Promoting free, creative and inductive reasoning

Promoting free, creative and inductive thinking

 

Exercise criticism and self-criticism

 

Work in an interdisciplinary environment

 

Search, analyze and synthesize data and information, using and of the necessary technologies

  1. COURSE CONTENT
 

1. The Constitution

2. The revision of the Constitution. The forms of the state. The regime

3. The organizational bases of the regime

4. The democratic principle in the current Constitution

5. The relationship of the democratic principle with the representative system

6. The principle of separation of powers

7. The parliamentary authority

8. The principle of the rule of law

9. The principle of the welfare state

10. The Electoral College

11. The Parliament

12. The President of the Republic

13. The Government – The Judiciary

 

  1. LEARNING & TEACHING METHODSEVALUATION
TEACHING METHOD
Face to face, Distance learning, etc.
Face to face and remote communication
USE OF INFORMATION & COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ICT)
Use of ICT in Teaching, in Laboratory Education, in Communication with students
Extensive use of presentation software and other audiovisual media
TEACHING ORGANIZATION

The ways and methods of teaching are described in detail.

Lectures, Seminars, Laboratory Exercise, Field Exercise, Bibliographicresearch& analysis, Tutoring, Internship (Placement), Clinical Exercise, Art Workshop, Interactive learning, Study visits, Study / creation, project, creation, project. Etc.

 

The supervised and unsupervised workload per activity is indicated here, so that total workload per semester complies to ECTS standards.

Activity Workload/semester
Lectures 50
Assignments after the end of each lecture

 

25
Participation in guided discussions in the context of lectures 25
Small individual practice tasks 25
Independent Study 25
Course total 150
   
   
Student Evaluation

Description of the evaluation process

 

Assessment Language, Assessment Methods, Formative or Concluding, Multiple Choice Test, Short Answer Questions, Essay Development Questions, Problem Solving, Written Assignment, Essay / Report, Oral Exam, Presentation in audience, Laboratory Report,Clinical examination of a patient,Artistic interpretation, Other/Others

 

Please indicate all relevant information about the course assessment and how students are informed 

 

Oral or Written final examination

 

The criteria are announced at the beginning of each semester

 

  1. SUGGESTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
– Chrysanthakis, Ch., Presentations on Constitutional Law, 2nd ed., 2020, Publications Legal Library- F. Spyropoulos, Constitutional Law, 2nd ed., 2020, Sakkoulas Publications

 

 

 

 

ANNEX OF THE COURSE OUTLINE

 

Alternative ways of examining a course in emergency situations

 

Teacher (full name):  
Contact details:  
Supervisors: (1)  
Evaluation methods: (2)  
Implementation Instructions: (3)  

 

  • Please write YES or NO
  • Note down the evaluation methods used by the teacher, e.g.
  • written assignmentor/and exercises
  • written or oral examination with distance learning methods, provided that the integrity and reliability of the examination are ensured.
  • In the Implementation Instructions section, the teacher notes down clear instructions to the students:

 

  1. a) in case of written assignment and / or exercises: the deadline (e.g. the last week of the semester),the means of submission, the grading system, the grade percentage of the assignment in the final grade and any other necessary information.
  2. b) in case of oral examination with distance learning methods: the instructions for conducting the examination (e.g. in groups of X people), the way of administration of the questions to be answered, the distance learning platforms to be used, the technical means for the implementation of the examination (microphone, camera, word processor, internet connection, communication platform), the hyperlinksfor the examination, the duration of the exam, the grading system, the percentage of the oral exam in the final grade, the ways in which the inviolability and reliability of the exam are ensured and any other necessary information.
  3. c) in case of written examination with distance learning methods:the way of administration of the questions to be answered, the way of submitting the answers, the duration of the exam, the grading system, the percentage of the written exam of the exam in the final grade, the ways in which the integrity and reliability of the exam are ensured and any other necessary information.

There should be anattached list with the Student Registration Numbersonly of students eligible to participate in the examination.