Attendance is mandatory. The postgraduate students may have up to two justified absences in every subject per term, due to medical reasons for which they have to collect the necessary confirmation from public hospitals, or due to serious personal reasons along with a personal statement. In case of surpassing the limit, because of special and exceptional reasons, the student has to submit an application to the Steering Committee with all the relevant documentation for approval, which sets the matter in the Assembly of the Faculty of English Language and Literature. In case the application is rejected, the student leaves the program.
Instruction is held in two study semesters, fall and spring one, each one of which runs for at least 13 weeks of teaching and three weeks of exams. Potentially missed classes are replaced. The date and time of the make-up class are posted on the website of the MA Programme. Exams take place during January/February for the Fall semester and in June for the Spring semester, for all the classes that include exams. There is no resit exam period in September. Assignments should be strictly submitted within their deadlines.
The evaluation of postgraduate students and their performance assessment takes place at the end of the semester with written or oral exams or assignment papers during the semester.
Student assessment in MA courses is determined by the instructor and is clearly explained in the course description. As a general rule, the overall mark of a module is based on the aggregation of independent graded sources (for example, research papers submitted during the semester, written or oral exams, oral presentations and other research or educational activities). The grade for each module, and the dissertation, is based on a 6- 10 scale (6 being the minimum passing grade and 10 being the highest) and is to be submitted to the Secretariat of the Department.
The final grade of the MA program is the average mark of (a) the grades of the courses completed in the 1st semester, (b) the grades of the courses completed in the second semester and (c) the grade of the dissertation. Programme completion requires collecting ninety (90) ECTS.
As defined in the Regulation of the MA Programme, if students fail one or more courses, they may fail the whole Programme; the student should then ask to be examined by a three-party committee, whose members have the same or relevant specialization and who are selected by the Department Assembly. The instructor is excluded from the three-party exam committee (par. 6, art. 34, N. 4485/2017). If the student is examined through a written assignment, the assignment is re-assessed by the three-party exam committee.