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This course explores the interconnected spheres of paid employment, unpaid labor, and care and welfare in order to understand the politics of contested UK reforms in international and comparative perspective.

This course gives students the skills to work with biological datasets to present, summarize, and explore patterns in a wide range of datasets using python, pandas, and seaborn. For each course topic, student apply the concepts they have learned to complex research datasets. Student groups choose a dataset to work with at the start of the course. The course is taught in workshops, with short lectures introducing the topic, and group practice with examples and complex datasets using Jupyter notebooks.

This course performs a comparative study of the U.S and Japan to better understand the unique challenges and opportunities their leaders face. The course covers the Presidential System on the United States and the Parliamentary System of Japan; Political Parties; Electoral Processes and Elected Members; Women in Politics, and Bureaucracy and Policymaking.

This course introduces students to the relations between philosophy and theology in thought about God, with particular attention to the Western tradition from Plato to the present, including themes in metaphysics and epistemology. It examines traditional and revisionary approaches to thinking about the reality of God, and the interplay of claims that God is both knowable and ultimately beyond comprehension.

This course teaches students certain key literary texts and the philosophical topics they explore. It also allows students to explore certain key conceptual issues concerning the relations between philosophy and literature. Topics include: what is the distinctive contribution that literature and philosophy each make towards an understanding of religion and morality in the broadest senses of these terms? Are there topics which can best be understood from a philosophical, rather than literary, point of view, or vice versa? What kinds of critical concepts does one need in exploring philosophical, alternatively, literary texts? Can one even speak of texts as "literary" and "philosophical" in such a broad-brush way? And, most importantly, what are the respective contributions of philosophy and literature to a humane education? There is no requirement to read foreign language texts in the original languages, but students are encouraged to do so if possible.

This course introduces long-format non-fiction storytelling and delves into the theoretical and practical realms of documentary filmmaking. It looks into the main elements of documentaries and explores the whole process of documentary filmmaking. The course focuses on the different genres and different techniques of documentary films as an important information base for students to produce their own films. It examines the wide array of documentaries covering political, cultural, historical, social, environmental topics, and more. The variety of genres and various techniques provide a wide base of documentary film experiences; this along with the encouragement of individual creativity is the backbone of the student's project throughout the semester.

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. The aim of this course is to develop cultural, scientific, and technical aspects for the enhancement and sustainable use and recycling of both raw materials and primary-secondary resources. Moreover, this course develops the design aspects and feasibility of Appropriate Technologies for the developing countries, particularly with regard to water supply, wastewater treatment, and solid waste management. The course is deepened on principles of Circular Economy (dry waste for recycling and organic waste for composting), on the circularity as tool for saving raw material, water, and natural resources and to reduce waste production. Course content includes (but is not limited to): Principles of circular economy and sustainability, climate change and transition engineering, sustainable development and sustainable use of resources, and the integrated management of municipal waste collection and treatment. 

This course examines health communication from patient-doctor interactions and inter-professional encounters to media campaigns and patient-patient interactions on social media. Topics include authentic data from a variety of healthcare sites (from primary care encounters to specialist clinics to genetic counseling) to examine some critical issues of health communication such as patient-centeredness and shared decision-making between healthcare professionals and patients; delivery of accurate and accessible healthcare information; and communicating health risk and uncertainty. 

This course examines the dominant socio-cultural framework and literary and critical practices that define postmodernism in the twentieth century. Students will explore the major debates, key ideas and texts that enable an understanding of the postmodern turn and continue to define contemporary literature in the present.

This course covers critical food safety issues in Taiwan, from foodborne chemicals; foodborne micro-organisms; health behavior policies; climate change and food safety/security; food fraud and terrorist attacks; genetically modified and emerging foods, to regulatory tools related to food safety. It analyzes contemporary issues in food safety from different perspectives via dialogue and critical thinking.