Brief Description

For non-Psychology majors only.

Minor Requirements

• Psychology 101: Introduction to Psychology
• Psychology 202: Personality Theories or Psychology 204: Social Psychology
• Psychology 205: Research Methods and Statistics I

And three of the following:

• Psychology 130: Cognitive Psychology
• Psychology 215: Positive Psychology
• Psychology 240: Forensic Psychology
• Psychology 255: Sports Psychology
• Psychology 310: Organizational Psychology
• Psychology 340: Psychology of Addiction

Το σεμινάριο Business Strategy είναι μια εξαιρετική ευκαιρία για όσους θέλουν να κατανοήσουν σε βάθος την έννοια της στρατηγικής στις επιχειρήσεις και να αξιοποιήσουν την πολύτιμη αυτή γνώση στη δική τους. Είναι ιδιαίτερα ενδιαφέρον καθώς ο βασικός εισηγητής αλλά και οι καλεσμένοι είναι επιτυχημένοι επιχειρηματίες που μπορούν να προσφέρουν πραγματικά χρήσιμη γνώση.

Τέλος, η γνωριμία και συναναστροφή με τους συμμετέχοντες που ήταν επίσης επιχειρηματίες από διάφορους κλάδους είναι επίσης πολύ εποικοδομητική.

[Ο κ. Φλωρεντίν] το ανέλυσε με τέτοιο τρόπο που πιστεύω μας άλλαξε τον τρόπο που σκεφτόμασταν και αποφασίζαμε για θέματα ανταγωνισμού.

Reading a good book is like borrowing a brain better than yours

Jeffrey Eugenides, the American author of Greek descent and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, visited Anatolia College on Tuesday, September 25, where he talked to High School students and American and Greek students of ACT – American College of Thessaloniki. Jeffrey Eugenides visited Greece on the occasion of “Athens 2018 – World Book Capital”, organized by the Municipality of Athens, with the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center and the Embassy of the United States of America. Thessaloniki was the author’s first stop in Greece. He was also invited at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, under the aegis of the American Consulate General in Thessaloniki and the AUTH, where he engaged in a lively dialogue with the audience.

During his visit at Anatolia College the writer of Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides, The Marriage Plot and Fresh Complaint came across an audience in which, as he explained, he specializes, “the adolescents”. “As I’m looking at you all together here, you remind me a lot of my own school. I never forget it and I always write about it.” Eugenides himself was not a good student. When he has a child he wanted to be an actor and, as he mentioned, this is the reason why he always identifies with his characters. When he was 16 years old, he read the novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and he decided to become an author. “I remember my parents’ stunned expression when I told them that I wanted to become an actor. So, when I, later, announced that I’m becoming an author, their reaction was more collected. I advise you to follow the same strategy with your parents”, he said to the students.   

While discussing the role of inspiration and the way he works and “constructs” his texts, he emphasized: “I don’t believe in inspiration. I don’t believe in the nicely-made studios. In fact, the smaller and the more uncomfortable the place where you’re writing is, the better the book will be. The only things that I need are isolation and great quantities of coffee”. He also advised the students that are interested in writing to read and write as much as possible “because reading a good book is like borrowing a brain better than yours”.

Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit, on the 8th of March, 1960. His grandfather migrated to America from Asia Minor and his mother is of Irish ancestry. He studied at Brown and Stanford Universities. He received a Pulitzer Prize for his novel Middlesex, which was also on the shortlist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Prix Médicis. His novel The Marriage Plot(2011) was a runner-up for the National Book Critics Circle Award and received the Prix Fitzgerald and the Grand Prix de l’ héroïne Madame Figaro. In 2014, Eugenides was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books Middlesex, The Marriage Plot, and Fresh Complaint: Stories, have been published in Greek by Patakis Publishers. His novel, The Virgin Suicides, was adapted into the big screen by Sofia Coppola.

The Dukakis Center and Transparency International Greece will co-host a panel discussion on the theme "Corruption, Transparency, and Whistle-blowing," on Friday, September 28, 7 pm, in the Bissell Library, ACT.

Featured speakers will include CIA whistleblower John Kyriakou, investigative journalist Tasos Telloglou (SKAI & Kathimerini), Professor Vassilis Barkoukis (Sports Faculty - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Dr. Anna Damaskou (Chair of the Board, Transparency International Greece and Anatolia College alumna), and Dr. Suelette Dreyfus (Executive Director, Blueprint for Free Speech).

The panel will discuss instances of transparency and whistle-blowing in various domains of public life, from international sport to national security and beyond.

ACT Professor Lambrini Nassis will moderate the discussion.

John Kyriakou is a former CIA analyst and case officer, and the author of Doing Time Like A Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison (2017). The book is an account of his trial and incarceration for publicly acknowledging in 2007 that the CIA had been using torture in the war on terror and that its use was actually official policy under the administration of President George W Bush.

Australian scholar and activist Suelette Dreyfus has research and teaching expertise in cybersecurity, hacking, digital privacy and anonymity, and integrity systems (including whistle-blowing). She works with civil society not-for-profit NGOs internationally which seek to improve the whistle-blower protection structures in their society, both in law and via the use of technology.

Vassilis Barkouki, of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, is an esteemed expert in doping in sport. The lead editor of The Psychology of Doping in Sport (Routledge, is the author of numerous publications on the topic. He has collaborated with WADA, the IOC, and the European Commission, and is currently also a track and field coach and physical education teacher at all levels of the sport.

The event will be in English and is open to the general public. A reception will follow.

This past weekend the Dukakis Center hosted Victoria Alsina of GovLab (NYU) and the Ash Center (Harvard), who delivered the keynote lecture at the Reworks Agora 2018 conference at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall. The event was co-sponsored with the Thessaloniki U.S. Consulate General.

Dr. Alsina, shared insights from an ongoing project on information technology and citizen engagement, with examples of how blockchain technology is impacting participation, deliberation, and voting at the municipal and national levels worldwide. Dr. Alsina also addressed the question of optimization of quality citizen participation and the current debate over redefining political legitimacy in light of developments in information technology. The session was moderated by Aphrodite Bouikidis, consultant for urban innovation and international partnerships with the Resilience Office of the Municipality of Thessaloniki.

Victoria Alsina is a Democracy Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Research Professor in the Technology, Culture, and Society Department at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, where she directs the Crowdlaw Initiative at the Governance Lab (GovLab). As an international consultant, she has advised numerous governments, private institutions, and non-profit organizations, including the OECD, the European Union, and the Inter-American Development Bank, on issues related to public sector reform, collaborative governance and democratic innovation.

Reworks Agora is an annual conference, which takes place in the margins of the renowned Reworks Music Festival, now in its 14th year. During this one-day and cross-thematic forum, keynote speakers and experts discuss topics as activism, creativity, technology, democracy. The Dukakis Center co-hosted the keynote session in 2017, too, with a lecture by Liz Barry, Director of the urban environment at Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science.

The Dukakis Center is celebrating 20 years of public service initiatives this year, with a full program of lectures, conferences, and workshops.

A Dukakis Center event at Reworks Agora 2018 

The Dukakis Center at ACT- American College of Thessaloniki will launch its 20th anniversary season of public service initiatives by co-sponsoring with the Thessaloniki US Consulate the keynote session of Reworks Agora on Sunday, September 16, 2018, at 5 PM in the Thessaloniki Concert Hall. The featured speaker is Dr. Victoria Alsina of Harvard University and GovLab, who will discuss "Blockchain: Grassroots initiatives for democracy." The session will be moderated by Aphrodite Bouikidis, consultant for urban innovation and international partnerships with the Resilience Office of the Municipality of Thessaloniki. A limited number of free tickets are available in NB Office 1.

Victoria Alsina is a Democracy Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Research Professor in the Technology, Culture, and Society Department at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, where she directs the Crowdlaw Initiative at the Governance Lab (GovLab). As an international consultant, she has advised numerous governments, private institutions and non-profit organizations, including the OECD, the European Union and the Inter-American Development Bank, on issues related to public sector reform, collaborative governance and democratic innovation.

At Reworks Agora 2018, Victoria Alsina will speak to us about how new technology offers the opportunity for public institutions to learn from our collective wisdom, reviewing good practices from around the world: from e-consultation platforms and open innovation initiatives to cryptocurrencies. Redesigning our governing practices to solve the complex policy challenges of the 21st century (and to repair the social contract!) urgently demands creating a two-way conversation between government and the governed. Let’s talk about it!

Reworks Agora is a one-day, cross-thematic forum that features keynote speakers, discussions, musical performances and screenings by leading experts and pioneers in the creative economy, culture, technology and contemporary thinking.

On September 16, 2018, Reworks Agora will host speakers from Greece and abroad to present initiatives and projects on music and culture, technology, digital culture and cultural entrepreneurship that shape the future of the cultural ecosystem. The event is part of the European program, We are Europe, and will co-operate special organized programs with the internationally acclaimed forums Sonar + D (Barcelona, ​​Spain), C / O Pop (Cologne, Germany) and Today’s Art (The Hague).