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This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. By the end of the course, students gain the most effective strategies of social inclusivity of diverse human groups with a specific focus on migrants at the theoretical, methodological, and practical intervention level. The focus of teaching and learning includes socio-cognitive strategies leading to social inclusivity:

• cross categorization,
• multiple categorization,
• counter-stereotypical categorization,
• common ingroup identity,
• dual identity,
• social identity complexity,
• relational strategies: intergroup contact in its diverse guises.

This course provides an intensive study of financial accounting theory, concepts, principles, and practices, with a focus on advanced topics in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The primary objective of this course is to develop students’ understanding of the conceptual framework of accounting standards and the measurement and reporting requirements necessary for the preparation of financial statements. Specifically, we take an in-depth look at the accounting information system, the key components of financial statements, and the asset side of the balance sheet.  

Students gain an understanding of the theoretical concepts, principles, and assumptions underlying external financial reporting, examine how to properly apply IFRS to the preparation of financial statement, and analyze economic events disclosed in financial statements.  

Prerequisite: Principles of Accounting (251.205) 

This course offers a survey of modern Irish literature, from the Irish Dramatic Revival with the founding of the Abbey Theatre in 1904 to the late twentieth century. Irish authors are often studied as part of English literature, but Ireland has its own unique cultural history. While the focus of the course is drama, it also covers some poems and short stories. The course enhances students' understanding of Irish culture and history: Celtic mythology, Irish landscape, fairies and folklore, Catholicism and the Protestant ascendancy, British colonialism, independence, and the Celtic Tiger. We read representative work by major Irish authors, including W. B. Yeats, Lady Augusta Gregory, J. M. Synge, Sean O`Casey, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, and Marina Carr. We explore how these authors respond to the idea of Irishness, as their works show persistent interest in Irish history and Irish identity. 

This course covers concurrent activities, busy-wait and polling, synchronization and communication, atomic operations such as test-and-set, and mutual exclusion. Central aspects of the Java concurrent package, such as locks, semaphores, thread pools, tasks, and blocking queues are also reviewed. The course concludes with an overview of multicore hardware, real-time operating systems, and scheduling.  Entry requirements include Programming and a second course in Java.

This course is designed to equip students with a comprehensive understanding of fundamental ecology principles, their practical applications, and how the concepts relate to the real world with examples from published scientific studies. Ecology is introduced at its different levels of organization, including organism-environment (biotic-abiotic) interactions, adaptations of plants and animals, the characteristics of populations as a basic biological unit in an ecosystem, intra and inter-specific interactions, community ecology, and ecosystem ecology. Students develop critical thinking and analytical skills by interpreting ecological data and applying theoretical knowledge to real-life scenarios. By the end of the course, students have a solid foundation in ecological principles, preparing them for further study or careers in conservation, environmental science, scientific research, and related fields.

This subject explores traditional and contemporary relationships between tangata whenua and the urban environment in Aotearoa New Zealand. It examines how Māori worldviews shape urban planning practice, with a focus on the impact of Treaty of Waitangi settlements. Key topics include Indigenous development, governance, and resource management, as well as the responsiveness of planning processes to Māori values and aspirations.

This course explores the concept of equality through the lens of analytic philosophy, applying normative theories to pressing global ethical issues. The first part of the course engages in conceptual analysis of equality, examining key debates in distributive justice, structural injustice, and recognition theory. The second part of the course applies these theoretical foundations to real-world ethical challenges, including climate justice, post-colonialism, minority rights, war and conflict, migration, and human rights. Students are evaluated on their ability to mobilize normative concepts in their discussion of the problems and solutions particular to the global sphere.

This course embraces documentary film to approach the history of Taiwan. Due to rapidly changing regimes of rule and a contentious geopolitical status, the people living on this island continue to grapple with multiple layers of coloniality, ways of healing from historical trauma, and expressions of identity. The development of documentary film-making in Taiwan is uniquely connected with the democratic movements against authoritarianism and the ethics of representing marginal voices and suppressed memories. Moreover, many directors have utilized cross-overs of film genre and the performing arts to illuminate certain “truths” unreachable through traditional documentary evidence.  

This course focuses on the ways that documentary (and fiction) filmmakers based in Taiwan use music, sound, and the performing arts as both subject and resource to shape narratives of Taiwan. In turn, the class focuses on Taiwanese documentary film to expand their understanding of the potentials and pitfalls of documentary film in the 21st century, especially through experiencing its creative uses of sounds and performances.

This course covers the fundamental concepts of databases—an essential component in implementing e-business information systems—including the entity-relationship model, relational databases, and the use of structured query language (SQL). Through individual projects, students also explore how to integrate databases with business information systems. Topics include Introduction to Database Industrial Information Management, Introduction to Structured Query Language (SQL), Relational model and normalization, Database design using normalization, Data modelling with the entity-relationship model, Transforming data models into a database design, SQL for database construction and application processing, Database redesign, Managing multi-user databases, Web Server Environment, and Data warehouses, business intelligent systems, and big data.