Post Graduate Programme: "Cinema in Education: Theory and Creative Practices"

The Postgraduate Thesis contributes to the scientific specialization of postgraduate students in the scientific field being developed. The aim of the Thesis is to demonstrate and certify the ability of postgraduate students to synthesize and utilize the knowledge they acquired during their studies in the Intensive Postgraduate Program.

Thesis may refer to one (or more) of the following categories:

• Systematic and in-depth bibliographic critical review of a topic. To provide a complete bibliographic comparative study, filling a gap in the relevant research literature, thus synthesizing new knowledge in the field of the interconnection of cinema and audiovisual arts with educational studies and education, formal and informal, and more specifically with the fields of film education, film pedagogy and film literacy.
• High-level original study. To compose a remarkable high-level original study, utilizing original research material, or even proposing new methodologies and techniques in the above thematic area.
• Addressing an original application problem. To design and develop an innovative teaching practice in the above thematic area.

Regardless of the category, it is important that each Thesis is distinguished by the originality, synthesis and integration of the knowledge acquired during the studies in the Postgraduate Program "Cinema in Education: Theory and Creative Practices" while simultaneously highlighting the personal contribution of the student.

Originality can take on many dimensions and concern (the citation is indicative):

• covering a bibliographic gap (e.g. production of new theory and/or new data)
• modifying/supplementing a theoretical analysis
• successfully solving a problem in an original way
• modifying/supplementing the methodologies used to solve a problem
• drawing new conclusions