Social Security Law

Course: Social Security Law
Course Number: 63
Time:
Prerequisites:
Credits: 6
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  1. GENERAL
SCHOOL SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT SOCIAL POLICY
LEVEL OF STUDIES LEVEL 6
COURSE CODE 63

SEMESTER

 6th & 8th
COURSE TITLE Social Security 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.		 TEACHING HOURS PER WEEK ECTS CREDITS
Lectures and Practice Exercises 3 6
Please, add lines if necessary.Teaching methods and organization of the course are described in section 4.
COURS ETYPE

Background, GeneralKnowledge, Scientific Area, Skill Development

 Scientific Area

 
PREREQUISITES: NO
TEACHING & EXAMINATION LANGUAGE: Greek
COURSE OFFERED TO ERASMUS STUDENTS: NO
COURSE URL: https://eclass.duth.gr/courses/437170/
  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 institutional framework and the operation primarily of the Greek social security system in its correlation both with the general theory of the operation of the welfare state and with the most important international and – mainly – European social security institutions. The emphasis, however, is on examining the modern operation of the social security institution in Greece, as well as on its future prospects.

Upon completion of the course students should be able to:

(a) Describe the structure and operation of the Greek social security system.

(b) Understand the institutional and financial function of social security.

(c) To distinguish social security from the related concepts of private insurance and social welfare.

(d) Understand the distinction between harmonization and coordination of the social security schemes of the Member States of the European Union.

(e) Be aware of the fundamental principles governing social security law.
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. Introduction2. The historical beginnings of the institution

3. Social security – private insurance

4. Insurance risks. Sense

5. Insurance risks – in width

6. The insurance benefits

7. Principles governing the legal relationship of social security – forms of insurance

8. The sources of financing of the social security institution

9. Contributions of employees and employers

10. The state subsidy.

11. Other sources

12. European social security law

13. Harmonization – coordination
  1. LEARNING & TEACHING METHODS – EVALUATION
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 25
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
125
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
– Stergiou Angelos, Social Security Law, DG Edition, 2017, Sakkoula Publications

– Paparrigopoulou-Pechlivanidi Patrina, Social Security Law, 4th Edition, 2019, Publications Legal Library Publications

 

ANNEX OF THE COURSE OUTLINE

 

Alternative ways of examining a course in emergency situations

 

Teacher (full name): Christos Morfakidis
Contact details:
Supervisors: (1) No
Evaluation methods: (2) Ø Written or oral examination with distance learning methods, provided that the integrity and reliability of the examination are ensured.
Implementation Instructions: (3) The examination in the course will be carried out according to the Examination Program of the Department.

 

The examination will be carried out through the electronic platform eclass and those students who have registered for the course and have learned the terms of distance education are eligible to participate.

On the day and time of the exam, the students will have to connect in groups on the electronic platform eclass, to select from the column on the left in the Active tools the Assignments, where there will be the relevant section for the examination of the course. After reading and answering the questions, they will upload their answers to a word file no later than the end of the exam by clicking Submit Job and then Select File. Before uploading the file with their answers they should save with their name a dash (-) and their AEM. The answers should also mention the name, patronymic, semester and AEM of the student.

 

Those students who are entitled to an oral examination will contact the instructor with a personal message.
  • Please write YES or NO
  • Notedowntheevaluationmethodsusedbytheteacher, e.g.
  • written assignmentor/andexercises
  • writtenororalexaminationwithdistancelearningmethods, 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) incaseoforal 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 gradingsystem, the percentage of the oral exam in the final grade, the ways in which the inviolability and reliability of the exam are ensuredand any other necessary information.
  3. c) incaseofwritten 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.