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BA (HONS) in English

Division of Humanities and Social Sciences American College of Thessaloniki - ACT in Thessaloniki - Greece
Degree Bachelors
Mode Full-Time/Part-Time
Duration 4 years
Fees (Per year) 13,440 EUR

Program Overview

ACT’s innovative BA in English features concentrations in Language and Literature, and Communication and New Media. The program of studies has been designed to be fresh, modern, and relevant to the academic and professional realities of today. After a shared cluster of common courses in the general area of English, students take courses in their selected concentration, complemented by additional courses from other divisions, to create essentially a unique 40-course undergraduate degree that blends academic knowledge with transferrable skills.

The Division of Humanities and Social Sciences provides introductory and advanced instruction in all areas of the human sciences, with undergraduate programs of distinction in English and New Media, Political Science & International Relations and Psychology. Teaching and research strengths within the division include: history, politics, and European integration; communication and media, modern literature, and language teaching methodology; psychology; anthropology; social and cultural studies. In addition, the Division offers a solid liberal arts course basis to all ACT’s academic and professional programs.

Message to University

The normal student load is 4 courses, or 12 credit hours, per term. Someone is considered a full-time student if he/she takes a minimum of 3 courses or 9 credit hours each term. Students wishing to graduate in fewer than four years, and having an overall GPA of 3.15 or better, may enroll for a fifth course each term, following the conclusion of regular registration.

Many degree candidates who work full time, and some who work part time, may choose to pursue their studies on a part time basis (2 or fewer courses). The normal course load for working students is one to two courses per term plus one or two summer session courses, for a total of five to eight courses total per year. Part time degree candidates must fulfill the same graduation requirements as full time candidates.

Curriculum and Programs of Study

ACT’s degree programs each contain a set of degree requirements. The first series of requirements for all programs consists of the general education requirements (abbreviated with the initials “GER”), which are designed to offer students foundation-level university training in four key skills areas as well as in four key awareness areas. This series of general education requirements is designed to help all students acquire basic communication, reasoning, and information technology skills to enable them to meet more advanced demands in their major field of study, as well as to ensure that they receive introductory-level training in both the methodologies and content of disciplines from each of the traditional Western knowledge domains. These include (a) The Arts and Humanities, (b) The Sciences, and (c) The Social Sciences.

General Education Objectives (GEO)

I. Core Skills

• Area 1: Communication (COM)

Students will acquire a high level of receptive and productive proficiency in English and become conversant in a range of lexical registers employed in academic and professional communication. Through systematic instruction and practice in writing and speaking skills across a range of disciplines they will develop their abilities to organize information and ideas coherently and to convey their thoughts clearly, precisely, and fluently.

• Area 2: Qualitative Reasoning (QAL)

Students will strengthen their ability to comprehend and analyze an argument, to identify its main and secondary means of development, to evaluate its validity and that of the evidence used to support it, and to construct valid counter-arguments appropriately supported by adequate and relevant evidence.

• Area 3: Quantitative Reasoning (QAN)

Students will acquire the ability to calculate and analyze, to frame questions appropriately for solution through quantification, to provide modeling, and to describe the analytical reasoning processes they have employed through analysis, question framing, and modeling.

• Area 4: Information Technology (IT)

Students, through exposure to the employment and application of IT across the curriculum, will gain proficiency in using technology in order to support them in approaching problems and questions, searching for and evaluating a range of data in multiple formats and media, and employing these in efficient, relevant ways. They will also acquire the facility to utilize software programs and online resources appropriately and effectively both within and beyond an academic setting.

II. Core Awareness

• Area 5: Historical, Social, and Cultural Awareness (HSC)

Students will strengthen their capacity for informed and rational responses to the social realities of a constantly changing and increasingly multicultural world by examining the histories and cultures of various societies, including those distant in time, location, or outlook from their own. They will also gain a fuller understanding of the ways in which geography, political organization, economic systems, social structures, and religious beliefs mould a society’s values, beliefs and priorities.

• Area 6: Scientific and Environmental Awareness (SEN)

Students will acquire an understanding of humans’ interactions with the natural environment through introduction to the methods and objects of scientific reasoning and inquiry, and with science’s quantitative, qualitative, philosophical, social and aesthetic dimensions. They will be introduced to the impact of scientific and technological advancements on the environment and the role played by individuals and societies in addressing both the opportunities and the challenges posed by technology in the modern world.

• Area 7: Creative and Aesthetic Awareness (CAA)

Students will gain greater understanding and insight into the processes of creative and artistic thought through opportunities to exercise their own capacities for such expression, or for interpretive-critical study of the creations of others. They will come to appreciate both direct engagement in and informed responses to artistic/creative endeavor as a means of establishing and maintaining the collective human cultural inheritance as well as a source of life-long personal enrichment and pleasure.

• Area 8: Personal and Civic Values (PCV)

Students will acquire enhanced competence in identifying conflicts that arise from competing or opposed values and beliefs, and in analyzing resulting ethical conflicts and dilemmas. Familiarization with a range of approaches to understanding values conflicts will support their growth towards achieving reasoned autonomy in decisiontaking involving conflicts of values. Further, students will be able to assume their civic responsibilities within their community, region and the world by coming to appreciate the values of a democratic and pluralistic society: informed, rational and open dialogue in the search for consensus, respect for all members of the community, and a commitment to societal improvement that preserves and ensures the transmission of these values to future generations.

Undergraduate Program Requirements

Greek/EU Student Admission

All first-year candidates are required to submit an application for admission along with the required material. Students may submit an application through the online portal or a paper-based one.

Applications are reviewed by the admissions director and the director of enrollment, who are familiar with a variety of school systems and transcripts.

Application Requirements

Applicants are required to submit the following when applying for admission to the program:

  1. An Application Form.
  2. An official high school transcript of grades. If you have not attended an English- or Greek-speaking high school, an official translation into English is required.
  3. An official high school diploma. If you have not attended an English- or Greek-speaking high school, an official translation into English is required.
  4. Official evidence of proficiency in English. Students should submit an English certificate at a minimum level of B2, obtained in the last two years. Exempted are students whose primary language of instruction at school has been English for the duration of the secondary school studies.
  5. A recent passport-size color photograph.
  6. A photocopy of either your ID card (Greek only: ταυτ?τητα) or your valid passport (all EU students).
  7. A non-refundable application fee of 70.00 Euro. The application fee should be deposited at one of ACT’s bank accounts.

A copy of the bank receipt should accompany the application. 

All application documentation should be submitted/mailed directly to the Admissions Office.

Admissions Procedure

  1. Submit an application along with the supporting material.
  2. Pay the application fee.
  3. An interview with a member of the admissions office will be required at any stage of the application procedure.
  4. The admissions decision is communicated to applicants in writing and within two weeks from the time of receipt of the complete application.
  5. Admitted students are required to confirm their attendance in writing within a given deadline and as specified in the acceptance letter.
  6. Applicants whose application has been rejected may appeal at the ASPC committee for re-evaluation.

Applicants whose application has been rejected may appeal at the ASPC committee for re-evaluation.

Applications receive a priority number which determines the order in which successful applicants register for their first semester of course work.

 

Non-EU Student Admission

ACT’s admissions application process is the same for all students regardless of their citizenship or country of residence.

Applications are reviewed by the admissions director and the director of enrollment, who are familiar with a variety of school systems and transcripts.

Non-EU applicants must demonstrate that financial resources are available to them which are sufficient to meet the costs of tuition and fees, books and supplies, living expenses during their stay in Greece, and transportation expenses to return to their country.

Application Requirements

Applicants are required to submit the following when applying for admission to the program:

  1. An Application Form.
  2. An official high school transcript of grades. If you have not attended an English- or Greek-speaking high school, an official translation into English is required.
  3. An official high school diploma. If you have not attended an English- or Greek-speaking high school, an official translation into English is required.
  4. A school profile which should include a description of the school, grading system, curricular and extracurricular resources.
  5. Official evidence of proficiency in English. Please check below.
  6. A recent passport-size color photograph.
  7. A photocopy of your valid passport.
  8. A non-refundable application fee of 70.00 Euro. The application fee should be deposited at one of ACT’s bank accounts.

A copy of the bank receipt should accompany the application. 

All application documentation should be submitted/mailed directly to the Admissions Office.

Admissions Procedure

  1. Submit an application along with the supporting material.
  2. Pay the application fee.
  3. An interview with a member of the admissions office will be required at any stage of the application procedure.
  4. The admissions decision is communicated to applicants in writing and within two weeks from the time of receipt of the complete application.
  5. Admitted students are required to confirm their attendance in writing within a given deadline and as specified in the acceptance letter.
  6. Admitted non-EU students receive visa and residence permit application instructions once they confirm their attendance in writing.
  7. A second acceptance letter is provided to non-EU students for the visa application.
  8. A copy of the visa should be submitted to the admissions office prior to arrival in Greece.

International students are encouraged to visit ACT, meet the department chair of their chosen major, sit in a class, talk to students and have an on-campus tour. An appointment prior to visit is required.

Applicants whose application has been rejected may appeal at the ASPC committee for re-evaluation.

Applications receive a priority number which determines the order in which successful applicants register for their first semester of course work.

English Language Proficiency Requirement for non-EU Students

To be considered for admission to ACT, candidates should provide official evidence of proficiency in English in one of the following ways:

  1. Student’s native language is English.
  2. Student holds an internationally recognized English certificate at least at B2 level, which has been received within the last two years.

US Degree-Seeking Student Admission

ACT accepts applications on a rolling admissions basis by April 1st. Admitted students should make a non-refundable deposit by May 1st.

US applicants are required to submit the following when applying for admission to the program:

  1. An Application Form.
  2. Official transcripts of 9th, 10th, 11th grade and a grade report of the 12th grade.
  3. Personal essay.
  4. One letter of recommendation from a teacher/advisor.
  5. SAT/ACT scores (optional, but strongly encouraged).
  6. A recent passport-size color photograph.
  7. A photocopy of your valid passport.
  8. A non-refundable application fee of $50. The application fee should be deposited at one of ACT’s bank accounts.

All application documentation should be submitted/mailed directly to the Admissions Office.

Admissions Procedure

  1. Submit an application along with the supporting material.
  2. Pay the application fee.
  3. An interview with a member of the admissions office will be required at any stage of the application procedure.
  4. The admissions decision is communicated to applicants in writing and within two weeks from the time of receipt of the complete application.
  5. Admitted students are required to confirm their attendance in writing by May 1.
  6. Admitted US students receive visa and residence permit application instructions once they confirm their attendance in writing and submit the non-refundable deposit.
  7. A second acceptance letter is provided to US students for the visa application.
  8. A copy of the visa should be submitted to the admissions office prior to arrival in Greece.
  9. Applicants whose application has been rejected may appeal at the ASPC committee for re-evaluation.

Applications receive a priority number which determines the order in which successful applicants register for their first semester of course work.

Transfer Student Admission

ACT welcomes applications from transfer students who complete the following criteria:

  1. English language proficiency as described above.
  2. Previous academic work is completed at a regionally accredited institution.
  3. Courses apply towards the ACT curriculum.
  4. Courses have been completed with a minimum grade of “C” or its equivalent.

International Baccalaureate Credits: Applicants who have received scores of 4 and above on higher-level exams will be evaluated on a course-by-course basis for transfer credit. As much as one year of course work may be recognized, thus entitling applicants holding this diploma to sophomore standing upon entry.

Responsibility for individual transcript evaluation and the awarding of transfer credits for advanced standing rests with the offices of the Registrar and Admissions. Prior to the award of transfer credit a student’s transcript is scrutinized with respect to credit hours earned and course equivalencies by the Associate Dean for Administration and Student Affairs and the chairs of the corresponding departments.

Transfer students must spend at a minimum their last two semesters (i.e., their last full academic year) in residence at the College.

Transfer Application Procedure

Transfer applicants are required to submit the following when applying for admission to the program:

  1. An Application Form.
  2. An official transcript of grades. If you have not attended an English- or Greek-speaking college/university, an official translation into English is required.
  3. Evidence of proficiency in English as described above.
  4. Copies of course syllabi for all the courses you have completed and for those on which you are currently enrolled.

A copy of the bank receipt should accompany the application. 

Admissions Procedure

  1. Submit an application along with the supporting material.
  2. Pay the application fee.
  3. An interview with a member of the admissions office will be required at any stage of the application procedure.
  4. The admissions decision is communicated to applicants in writing and within two weeks from the time of receipt of the complete application.
  5. Admitted students are required to confirm their attendance in writing within a given deadline and as specified in the acceptance letter.

Applicants whose application has been rejected may appeal at the ASPC committee for re-evaluation.

Applications receive a priority number which determines the order in which successful applicants register for their first semester of course work.

All application documentation should be submitted/mailed directly to the Admissions Office

 

Tuition & Fees

Tuition at ACT is charged per credit hour. All tuition and fees are paid in euros, except in the cases of US degreeseeking students and study abroad programs, where agreements have been made in US dollars. Tuition and fees are revised annually and announced each year, in late summer.

Current Tuition & Fees

Tuition is calculated by credit hour. The cost per credit hour is €280. Pertinent fees are added to this amount as per the following schedule: 

Application fee (non-refundable): €70 

Library Fee (paid by all students regardless of no. of classes taken): €35

Science Lab Fee (for Science classes only): €100

Change-of course Fee: €50

Late Registration/Pay Fee: €50

International Student Fee (Freshman one-time fee): €200

Official Transcript request fee: €3

New students register during the week before classes begin, while continuing students register during official registration week each term.

New Student Orientation followed by class registration is held one week prior to the beginning of classes, both in the Fall and Spring terms.

30% and 50% scholarships for undergraduate studies

Especially for students in Greece who live outside Thessaloniki and will eventually have to move to the city for their studies, as well as for exceptional High School alumni with high grades.
Our new scholarships program aims to support even more prospective students:

  • Students coming from other cities will automatically receive a financial aid of 30% on their tuition upon application, given that their high school diploma was issued by a Greek High School that is not in the prefecture of Thessaloniki.
  • Students that hold a High School Diploma from Greece with a graduating grade of 17.5 or above may receive financial aid up to 50%* on their tuition upon application.

Hellenic-American scholarships for Study Abroad students

ACT awards a number of partial tuition scholarships to eligible Hellenic American applicants.

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