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This course introduces students to the history of the world from 1780 to 1900. It focuses on the idea of modernity, following four major themes that help explain the making of the modern world: War and Empire; the Material World; Politics and Revolution; and Societies and Cultures. A series of chronologically organized lectures and seminars address significant events, topics, and concepts relating to the history of Britain, Europe, and other world regions. This course asks students to think thematically over time; to detect connections and contrasts between phenomena in different places; to recognize that all regions of the world have complex histories; and to develop a world historical imagination.

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale program and is intended for advanced level student. Enrolments is by consent of the instructor. At the end of the course students acknowledge that when an asset is musealized, it needs special processes: it must be recognized, it must be cured, and it needs special care before and after its entrance in the museum. Students acquire understanding of museography and museology as theory and practice of the care and interpretation of heritage. Students are acquainted with the computational processes involved in the discipline, with a focus on virtual museum, and digital curation.

This course examines global economic history from 1500 to 1900 through a “polycentric” and “connected histories” framework, moving beyond traditional Eurocentric narratives. Rather than portraying Europe as the sole driver of economic change, the course highlights the role of Asian, African, and American actors in shaping the global economic order. The course is organized in four parts: (1) The polycentric world before European expansion; (2) Early connections that modified but did not destroy existing systems; (3) The multiple paths of the Great Divergence, and (4) The consolidation of an unequal world system. The course also integrates environmental and gender perspectives as essential analytical lenses. Key topics include Asian maritime trading systems, global silver flows, plantation economies, the industrial revolution, the Great Divergence debate, and systems of coerced and contractual labor.

This course aligns Political Sociology to the social scientific study of political issues by other disciplines such as Political Psychology and Political Science, and seeks to develop a broad account of politics that can be used to understand contemporary social and political themes. The course combines the study of institutional and everyday politics, focusing on topics such as formal and informal types of political participation, political partisanship, elites and the distribution of power, the rise of populism, the politics of emotion and identity politics. Students taking this course learn about the theoretical, methodological, and empirical aspects of research in Political Sociology and related disciplines.

This course focuses on scientific methods that marketers can use to obtain valid and reliable information on consumer behavior in order to both develop better products and services, as well as effectively promote them. It covers the fundamental issues of conducting scientific research in the area of customer behavior, including: factorial analysis; drawing perceptual maps; cluster analysis; discriminant analysis; joint analysis; in-depth interviews; group dynamics; commercial observation techniques.

Psychology is the scientific study of processes underlying human behavior, such as sensation and perception, learning and thinking, motivation, and emotion. It covers a broad range of topics, and the purpose of this course is to provide a general survey of those topics. It is difficult to cover the many topics of psychology in a survey course, and it involves a lot of work and time. For some of you this may be your only exposure to psychology, but for others it will lay the groundwork for more advanced courses.