Bachelor's Degree in Cultural Technology and Communication. Department of Cultural Technology and Communication. Faculty of Social Sciences. University of the Aegean.

Description

The graduates of the department:
- Know the basic principles for programming computer software and designing IT systems.
- Know, assess, and select suitable techniques and technologies for IT and communications in order to promote the cultural legacy.
- Know the basic principles of the theory of culture and communication, and combines them with the purpose of disseminating cultural information.
- Know the basic principles for the preservation and management of the material and immaterial cultural inheritance.
- Know and design the creative production of quality cultural content, using IT and multimedia technologies.
- Know technologies and techniques for the registration and processing of image and audio using digital means.
- Know how to organize and make use of data through an audiovisual or multimedia project.
- Understand the concept of the cultural information and the basic principles for organizing and managing it.
- Analyse the requirements for the design and development of IT systems.
- Understand the capabilities for connecting new technologies and culture within the context of the scientific field of cultural informatics.
- Understand the methods by which humans interact with digital cultural content.
- Understand the capacities and the prospects of the interdisciplinary composition and collaboration.
- Analyse the changes in cultural values and behaviours and adjust the presentation, promotion, and communication of the cultural information to them.
- Apply the theories and learning models for the design, implementation, and evaluation of learning scenarios and digital applications of educational technology.
- Apply methods and techniques for the production, direction, and processing of image and audio in audiovisual works.
- Make use of the theories of communication and digital media for the implementation of audiovisual works.
- Make use of the theories of museology and museum pedagogy for the implementation of applications for museums and relevant cultural organisations.
- Design and develop interactive multimedia application, databases, internet sites, games, 3D graphics, intelligent systems.
- Are capable of designing and implementing digital cultural products for organisations of various categories.
- Collaborate at every stage leading to the selection, analysis, processing, production, and presentation of digital cultural content.
- Develop techniques and methods, mainly in the form of multimedia, which facilitate access to cultural information.

Further Information

The objective of the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication is the education of new scientists:
- On Information Technologies;
- On Cultural Studies;
- On the applications of Information and Communication Technologies for the production and management of Digital Cultural Content.

Specifically, the objectives of the Department could be summarised as follows:
- Cultivation and promotion of knowledge about culture and cultural inheritance.
- Use of information technologies about issues of culture and cultural management.
- Design, production, management, and dissemination of cultural goods and services, with the purpose of preserving, promoting, and socially exploiting Greek cultural inheritance within the multicultural frame of the European Union and of the international community.

The Programme of Studies includes the following:
- Basic principles on the theory of culture and communication, with regard to the understanding, management, and transmission of the cultural information.
- The basic principles for the preservation and management of the tangible and intangible cultural inheritance.
- Theories of communication and digital media for the implementation of audiovisual works.
- Theories of museology and museum pedagogy for the implementation of applications for museums and relevant cultural organisations.
- Theories and learning models for the design, implementation, and evaluation of learning scenarios and digital applications of educational technology.
- Basic principles for application development.
- Basic principles for designing databases and IT systems.
- Methods and tools for the digital processing of multimedia content.
- Methods and tools for the development of interactive, multimedia applications, internet sites, digital games, 2D and 3D graphics.
- Methods and techniques for the production, direction, and processing of image and audio in audiovisual works.

Relation To Employment

The graduate becomes eligible for appointment for Branch University Education 19 Informatics, Educational Personnel of Secondary Education of the Ministry for Education and Religious Affairs (Presidential Decree 118/1995, Government Gazette 75, bulletin Α΄), as supplemented by the clauses of article 39, par. 2, verse d) of Law 3794/2009 (Government Gazette 156, bulletin Α).

Transitions

Access to this type of qualification have those who have completed at least the secondary education (level 4).
Holders of such qualifications gain access to study programmes at the same level or at level 7 or 8.

Ways To Aquire

Qualifications of this type are acquired via formal education.