School  Natural Sciences
Academic Unit
 Geology Department
Level of Studies
 Undergraduate
Course Code
 Geol_017
Εξάμηνο σπουδών  2ο
Course Title
 Basic Computer Applications in Geology
Independent Teaching Activities
 Lectures and laboratory work
Weekly Teaching Hours
 1 (Lect.) +2 (lab.)
Credits  3
Course Type
 Basic General knowledge
Prerequisite Courses
 No
Language of Instruction & Examinations
Greek. Teaching may be however performed in English in case foreign students attend the course
Is the Course offered to Erasmus Students
 Yes
Course Web-Page (URL)  
Learning Outcomes
The aim of the course is to acquire the basic knowledge on widely-used software, which are essential tools for studying geosciences.
General Competences
  • Generally, by the end of this course the student will, furthermore, have develop the following general abilities:
  • Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology
  • Working independently
  • Team work
  • Production of free, creative and inductive thinking
Syllabus

The course content includes the following chapters:

Spreadsheets of the MS-Office

  • Data entry
  • Basic functions and calculations
  • Complex functions and their graphs

Software for two-dimensional plots

  • Correlation of two geological parameters
  • Graphical representation of univariate geological data

Software for three-dimensional plots

  • Coordinate systems and data entry
  • Building of contour maps
  • Building simple digital elevation models
  • Map overlap

Software for the spatial variation of geological parameters

  • Basic principles of mapping
  • Boundaries of surface distributions
  • 2D and 3D graphical representations
  • Examples of spatially-varying geological data

Software for  processing XRD data

  • Evaluating results from XRD data using specific software package and  related databases
  • Use of specialized software package for the management and processing of raw mineralogical and petrological data.
  • Use of open source digital image processing software (Java platform) for the qualitative and quantitative processing of mineral and textural features of mineralogical and petrographic data.

Matlab software, basic applications

  • Matlab, basic principles, basic commands
  • Data files, loading and processing, diagrams in Matlab
  • Gridded data processing, contour maps
Delivery
  • Face-to-face in the classroom.
  • Lab exercises using the relevant software in the department’s computer center. 
Use of Information & Communication Technology
 Use of  e-class platform including all the lectures and lab exercises in digital format. Seminars will be given in the department’s computer center for the application of suitable software on lab exercise solution.
Teaching Methods
 
Activity Semester workload
 Lectures  1 X 13 = 13
 Laboratory practice  2 X 13 = 26
 Study  13 X 3 = 39
 Total number of hours for the Course 78
 Student Performance Evaluation

Ι. Theory (50% of the final mark)

Final Exam, written, of increasing difficulty, which may include multiple choice test, questions of brief answer, questions to develop a topic, judgment questions and exercise solving.

Students are obliged to attend all scheduled laboratory classes and to deliver all the laboratory exercises, during the semester in order to be able to participate to the final exams.

Marking Scale: 0-10.

Minimum Passing Mark: 5.

ΙΙ. Laboratory(50% of the final mark)

Oral Examination. Students are obliged to attend all laboratory classes and to deliver the results of all exercises.

Percentages are valid t only when the student secures the minimum mark of 5 in the final written examination

Greek grading scale: 1 to 10. Minimum passing grade: 5.

Grades <3 correspond to ECTS grade F.

Grade 4 corresponds to ECTS grade FX.

For the passing grades the following correspondence normally holds:

5 <-> E, 6 <-> D, 7 <-> C, 8 <-> Β and >9 <-> A
Attached Bibliography

Suggested bibliography:

Notes and software manuals

 

School  Natural Sciences
Academic Unit
 Geology Department
Level of Studies
 Undergraduate
Course Code
 GEOL_016
Εξάμηνο σπουδών  2ο
Course Title
 English  for  Geology II
Independent Teaching Activities
 Lectures, seminars and laboratory work
Weekly Teaching Hours
 3 Lect
Credits  3
Course Type
 Scientific Area and Skills Development
Prerequisite Courses
There are no prerequisites for the course.
Language of Instruction & Examinations
English
Is the Course offered to Erasmus Students
Υes
Course Web-Page (URL)  https://eclass.upatras.gr/courses/GEO349/
Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course the student will be able to:

  • Students who have already attended the first term  comprehend  different types of discourse -academic texts ,lectures 
  • Practise further all four skills, that is, speaking, listening, reading and writing.
General Competences

By the end of this course the student will, furthermore, have developed the following skills (general abilities):

  • At the end of the course students should be able to listen and understand   lectures   
  • Students  expand /enrich  more advanced  Geology English Terminology
  • Improve speaking for communication in professional settings
Syllabus  Energy sources -Renewable sources of Energy, Seismology, Volcanology ,Petrol
Delivery  Face to face (Lectures in class)
Use of Information & Communication Technology
 Use of Information and Communication Technologies (e.g. powerpoint) in teaching. The study material of the course for each chapter is uploaded on the internet, in the form of a series of ppt files, where from the students can freely download them using a password which is provided to them at the beginning of the course
Teaching Methods
 
Activity Semester workload
 Lectures (3conduct hours per week x 13 weeks) 3×13=39 
 Plenty of in-class activities   36
 Total number of hours for the Course  75 hours
 Student Performance Evaluation
  • Final exam (90%)
  • Attendance  and participation (10%)
Attached Bibliography

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences (3rd ed.) (2008), OUP.

A Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences (4th ed), (2013) OUP.

The Penguin Dictionary of Geology by Philip Kearey.

School  Natural Sciences
Academic Unit
 Geology Department
Level of Studies
 Undergraduate
Course Code
GEOL_015
Εξάμηνο σπουδών  2ο
Course Title
School Counseling
Independent Teaching Activities
Lectures and laboratory work
Weekly Teaching Hours
3 (lect.) 
Credits  3
Course Type
 Field of Science (Counseling Psychology) and Skills Development (Counseling skills)
Prerequisite Courses
 Typically, there are not prerequisite course.
Language of Instruction & Examinations
Greek.
Is the Course offered to Erasmus Students
 No
Course Web-Page (URL)  https://eclass.upatras.gr/courses/PDE1359/
Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course the students will be able to:

  1. Understand teacher’s role as a counselor
  2. Understand children and adolescents’ psychosocial needs.
  3. Understand how a counselling group is formed, carried out and evaluated. Also they will acquire an understanding of the therapeutic factors and group leader skills that make a group effective.
  4. Present the principles of designing and conducting a psychoeducational group for children with various socioemotional difficulties
  5. Apply group counseling skills
  6. Apply the principles and the methods of evaluating a psychoeducational group for children and adolescents.
General Competences

By the end of this course the student will, furthermore, have developed the following skills (general abilities):

  1. Ability to exhibit knowledge and understanding of the essential facts, concepts, theories and applications which are related to Group Counseling.
  2. Ability to apply this knowledge and understanding to the management of social and emotional problems related to school environment.
  3. Αbility to adopt and apply methodology to the management of less familiar school problems regarding students.
  4. Ability to prepare and carry out a psychoeducational group
  5. Study skills needed for conducting a group for children and adolescents.
  6. Ability to evaluate a psychoeducational group and make the necessary adjustments.
Syllabus The importance of guidance and counselling programmes in schools today. Children’s and adolescents’ psychosocial characteristics and their counselling needs. The teacher’s role as a counselor. Psychoeducational groups for children and adolescents. Planning for a psychoeducational group. Group leadership skills and group processes (therapeutic factors, group climate, group alliance). Evaluating psychoeducational groups.
Delivery Lectures and practice through use of a counseling log.
Use of Information & Communication Technology
The lectures content of the course for each chapter are uploaded on the internet (e-class), in the form of a series of ppt files, where from the students can freely download them.
Teaching Methods
 
Activity Semester workload
Lectures (3 conduct hours per week x 13 weeks) 3×13=39
Counseling log (3 hour per week x 12 weeks) – counseling an individual or leading a psychoeducational group 36
 Total number of hours for the Course 75 hours
 Student Performance Evaluation
  1. Evaluation of the counseling log, which is handed to the course instructor 1 week before the exams (30%). The mark is given provided that the student has secured at least the grade 5 in written examinations.
  2. Written examination after the end of the semester (70%)
Minimum passing grade:  5.
Attached Bibliography
  1. Vassilopoulos, S. P., Brouzos, A., & Baourda, V. (2016). Psychoeducational group programs for children and adolescents. Athens: Gutenberg [in Greek]
  2. Vassilopoulos, S. P., Koutsopoulou, Ι., & Regli, D. (2011). Psychoeducational groups for children. Athens: Grigoris [in Greek].
  3. Brown, N. W. (2004). Psychoeducational groups: Process and practice. NY: Brunner-Routledge.
  4. Corey, M. S. & Corey, G. (2006). Groups: process and practice. Belmont, CA: Thomson Brooks/Cole.

-journals:

  1. Journal for specialists in group work. Routledge
  2. European Journal of Counselling Psychology.

 

School  Natural Sciences
Academic Unit
 Geology Department
Level of Studies
 Undergraduate
Course Code
 Geol_014
Εξάμηνο σπουδών  2ο
Course Title
 Field Work I
Independent Teaching Activities
  Fieldwork – Field trips
Weekly Teaching Hours
  4 +1 + 1 days
Credits  3
Course Type
General knowledge, Skills development
Prerequisite Courses
Planet Earth, Geomorphology, Palaeontology
Language of Instruction & Examinations
Greek. Teaching
Is the Course offered to Erasmus Students
 No
Course Web-Page (URL)  https://eclass.upatras.gr/field-trips/Geol_014
Learning Outcomes

For course Field work I the following fieldwork days will be required: four (4) days for the course “Planet Earth”, one (1) day for the course “Geomorphology” and one (1) day for the course “Paleontology”.

The four daily field trips take place at:

  1. Kalavrita, Aroanios River springs, Kastria caves (within the courses Planet Earth and Geomorphology)
  2. Corinth channel, Sousaki volcano (within the courses Planet Earth and Paleontology)
  3. Charadros River – Ortos hill (within the courses Planet Earth and Paleontology)
  4. Outcrops at Proastio area in Patras (within the course Planet Earth)

The purpose of the above mentioned field-trips is to help the student to understand the topics of the studied courses, such as:

  1. To understand the dynamics of surface earth processes
  2. Introduction to the main minerals and sedimentary rocks
  3. The water cycle, groundwater, surface water, streams and drainage systems
  4. Glacial and periglacial geomorphology, Karstic geomorphology, fluvial geomorphology and morhotectonics
  5. Volcanicity: Types of volcanic activity, Magma, Volcanoes and Igneous rocks. Types of volcanic vents, the example of Sousaki.
  6. Main tectonic structures such as faults, and the respective extensional regimes that affect sedimentary basins. The example of the isthmus of Corinth
  7. Earthquakes and their effect on humans
  8. To distinguish and to identify fossils in the rocks
  9. To understand that fossils consist clasts of the sedimentary rocks
  10. To learn how to extract them from the sediments and collect them properly
  11. To familiarize with some of the most important and common groups of organisms we encounter as fossils
  12. To be able to associate organisms with specific living environments which can define the respective depositional environments
General Competences
  • Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary geological tools (maps, bibliography, reports etc.)
  • Introduce the students to the main topics of Geology
Syllabus
  1. Kalavryta, Springs of Aroanios River, Cave of Kastria: Understanding the mechanisms of erosion, weathering and transport, gravitational movements and landslides. The surface water at the springs of Aroanios river, and the groundwater in the caves of Kastria, water. Glaciers and kartification phenomena
  2. Corinth, Sousaki: Tectonism with the presence of extensional faults and how these affect the sedimentary basins of the Isthmus of Corinth, Marine fossils. Types of volcanic activity, produced products, texture and rock structure, Volcanic vents and their types, the example of Sousaki
  3. Haradros River - Ortos: Sediments and sedimentary rocks, the bedding, the uncomformities, the different lithologies, the plant and animal fossils, the geological outcrops
  4. Brick factory at Proastio, Patras: Lacustrine and lagoonal environments, coal horizons, fossils, uncomformities
Delivery Six daily field-trips for three prerequisite courses aiming to the better understanding of teaching elements provided during lectures and practicals
Use of Information & Communication Technology
Support of Learning Process and Dissemination of educational material through the University of Patras e-class  platform  from where the respective guidebook for the field-trips can be downloaded.
Teaching Methods
 
Activity Semester workload
Lectures for field-trip preparation 6*2=12
Field-trips 6*8=48
Writing of the reports 6*5=30
 Total number of hours for the Course  90
 Student Performance Evaluation

Students must write for each filed-trip a report in order to prove that they understood in each field trip the demonstrated geological features.

Marking Scale: 0-10.

Minimum Passing Mark: 5.
Attached Bibliography

Suggested bibliography mainly  in Greek:

  1. Σημειώσεις Μαθήματος Θεωρίας και Εργαστηρίου που παρέχονται σε pdf μέσω e-class.
  2. Γεωλογία Αρχές και Εφαρμογές, Θ. Δούτσος 421 σελ, Παρέχεται μέσω ΕΥΔΟΞΟΣ
  3. Γεωλογία Η επιστήμη της Γης, Παπανικολάου και Σιδέρης 291 σελ Παρέχεται μέσω ΕΥΔΟΞΟΣ
  4. Διερευνώντας τη Γη, Δερμιτζάκης και Λέκκας 593 σελ.
  5. Physical Geology, Skimmer- Porter, John Wiley & Sons 1987
  6. Earth Surface Processes Landforms and Sediment Deposits, Bridge and Demicco, Cambridge Univ. Press 2008
  7. Γεωργιάδου-Δικαιούλια, Ε., Συμεωνίδης, Ν.Κ., Θεοδώρου, Γ.Ε., 2003, Παλαιοντολογία, ΜΕΡΟΣ Α. Εκδόσεις - Γραφικές Τέχνες ΓΚΕΛΜΠΕΣΗΣ ΑΝΤ. ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΣ
  8. 8.Γεωργιάδου-Δικαιούλια, Ε., Συμεωνίδης, Ν.Κ., Θεοδώρου, Γ.Ε., 2003, Παλαιοντολογία, ΜΕΡΟΣ Β. Εκδόσεις - Γραφικές Τέχνες ΓΚΕΛΜΠΕΣΗΣ ΑΝΤ. ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΣ
  9. 9.Γεωργιάδου-Δικαιούλια, Ε., Συμεωνίδης, Ν.Κ., Θεοδώρου, Γ.Ε.. 2003, Παλαιοντολογία, ΜΕΡΟΣ Γ. Εκδόσεις - Γραφικές Τέχνες ΓΚΕΛΜΠΕΣΗΣ ΑΝΤ. ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΣ
  10. 10.Prothero, R.D., 1998, Bringing  fossils to life: An introduction to palaeobiology, WCB/McGraw-Hill
  11. 11.Clarkson, E., 1998, Invertebrate Palaeontology and evolution, Wiley-Blackwell

 

School  Natural Sciences
Academic Unit
 Geology Department
Level of Studies
 Undergraduate
Course Code
 Geol_013
Εξάμηνο σπουδών  2ο
Course Title
 Physics 
Independent Teaching Activities
 Lectures
Weekly Teaching Hours
 4 THEORY
Credits  4
Course Type
 Field of Science (Mechanics, Waves, Fluids, Thermodynamics, Electromagnetism and Optics)
Prerequisite Courses
 No
Language of Instruction & Examinations
 Greek
Is the Course offered to Erasmus Students
 No
Course Web-Page (URL)  
Learning Outcomes
  • To gain the fundamental knowledge and understand the basic, known principles of Classical Mechanics, Waves, Fluids, Thermodynamics, as well as of Electromagnetism and Optics.
  • To develop synthetic thinking and get familiarized with solving more complex physics problems and interpreting physical phenomena, also related to the science of Geology.
General Competences
  • Apply knowledge in practice
  • Retrieve, analyze and synthesize data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
Syllabus
  • Physics and Measurement. Vectors. Motion in one and two dimensions, Circular motion. The concept of force and the laws of motion. Energy and energy transfer. Conservative and nonconservative forces. Linear Momentum and Collisions. Rotation of a Rigid Object about a Fixed Axis. Angular Momentum. Fluid Mechanics. Oscillatory Motion. Wave Motion. Sound Waves. Superposition and Standing Waves. Temperature. Laws of thermodynamics.
  • Electric Field, Gauss’ Law, Electric potential, Current and resistance, Electrical circuits (DC), Magnetic Field,
  • Faraday’s law, Magnetic properties of matter, Electromagnetic Waves, Nature of Light, Geometrical Optics.
Delivery  Face to face (Lectures in class)
Use of Information & Communication Technology
 Use of ICT in teaching and communication with students
Teaching Methods
 
Activity Semester workload
 Lectures  4×13=52
 Tutorial exercises  9
 Individual study  3×13=39
 Total number of hours for the Course  100
 Student Performance Evaluation
 Written Exams (Multiple choice, short answer questions, problem solving)
Attached Bibliography
  • Physics for Scientists and Engineers, R. Serway, J. Jewett, Brooks Cole.
  • Physics, Volume 1, 5th Edition, Resnick, Halliday, Krane, Wiley.
  • University Physics with Modern Physics, Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman, Pearson
  • .Physics for Scientists and Engineers, R. Serway, J. Jewett, Brooks Cole.
  • Fundamental of Physics, D. Halliday, R. Resnick, J. Walker, 10th Edition, Wiley.