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This course is made to give students an overview in the field of psychopathology and common psychological health issues. It will help students understand the basic approaches to the prevalence, diagnosis and treatment of common health disorders.

The lessons, tools and approaches of systems analysis covered in this course can be practically applied across many contexts: peacebuilding and development projects including global public health, security sector reform, anti-radicalization strategies, and many others. Students work on a number of projects where they analyze complex conflict and/or developing systems, the key driving factors, and evaluate a number of peacebuilding/development (including public health) initiatives. The course is designed as a training for students who wish to know more about this recent trend in peacebuilding and development theory and practice of designing, planning, monitoring and evaluating various humanitarian and development (including public health) interventions. The course is not limited to conflict or developing settings but applies the systems approach on examples from developed world (e.g. radicalization and terrorism issues). Furthermore, beside introducing the systems thinking as a practical approach to design peacebuilding/development interventions, the course introduces tools to monitor and evaluate efforts in the complex adaptive systems such as public health systems. The systems thinking is increasingly becoming the main approach to understand a complexity inherent in public health systems and strengthen overall health systems. The course begins with general concepts of “do no harm” and (conflict) sensitivity and trains students to conduct (conflict) systems analysis as the first necessary step in creating durable interventions with minimal unintended consequences and maximal impact. The course introduces a number of recently developed systems tools, such as RPP (reflecting on peace practice) matrix, visual maps for systems analysis, theories of change, systems archetypes and enhancing monitoring through feedback loops. In this course, the students learn how to test their assumptions and reflect upon and evaluate contribution of their peace/development initiative to a so-called PWL (Peace writ large) or overall economic or health systems. The concepts focus on real-life examples from various regions of the world. The course organizes a couple of visit lectures of experts in the field who apply the systems approach in their interventions.

This course is concerned with the history of industrialization and economic growth from the late 19th century to the present day. It explores factors that helped or hindered countries to industrialize. By examining these factors, it provides an insight into the complexity of long-run economic development.

This course examines the principles and fundamental theories of Thai dance. It also provides an introduction to the basic elements of Thai music, stylistic characters, and brief overview of the history of Thai music. Practical experience complements lectures to provide a better understanding of Thai dance and music culture and an appreciation of Thai cultural identities. The course culminates in a group public performance.

 

This course examines developmental biology of fish, molecular engineering in fish, and bioinformatics using computer and web sites. The course covers fundamental issues of genetic engineering and genomics in fish, and bioinformatics necessary for future researches in the fields of marine biotechnology. Topic during the class include: embryonic development in fish; forward genetics (Mutant library, Positional cloning); reverse genetics (Knockout fish, TALEN, CRISPR/Cas9); other basic techniques essential for fish biotechnology; fish genomes; practical training using computer (BLAST search, Multiple alignment, Phylogenetic tree, PubMed, Ensembl), larval and metamorphic development; transgenic fish.

This course provides an understanding of how love, sex, and marriage constitute a useful lens for understanding Chinese culture, thoughts, values, and ways of life. It provides a glimpse into the complex interconnections between political, cultural, economic, and interpersonal realms of experience. The course begins with issues that are personally relevant to young people – mate choice, love, marriage, sex, and family – with a view to helping to think about the historical and cultural roots of values concerning love, sexuality, marriage, and family life in China. In particular, the course examines the profound transformation in Chinese values, lifestyles, norms and desires, from Maoist utopianism to reform-era hedonism, brought about by market reforms and the opening of China. Through case studies of love and marriage in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta, the course looks at the diverse characteristics of Chinese ways of life, and how Chinese people may currently experience love, sex, marriage and cross different types of borders and boundaries to look for intimacies. Documentary films are used to give a vivid sense of the different strategies modern Chinese men and women use to fulfill material, affective and sexual desires as a response to social changes.

This course is comprised of three sub-courses. Students must take all three sub-courses. The first sub-course focuses on analysis. This sub-course provides students with an overview of various advanced methods of data analysis and the statistical tools necessary to analyze current research in the discipline of psychology. The focus is primarily on multivariate analysis. The teaching includes theory and practice in analytical methods, in particular quantitative methods of data analysis.

This is a graduate level course that is part of the Laurea Magistrale program. Enrollment is by consent of the instructor. The course is intended for students who have a strong background in linguistics. The course focuses on English linguistics and includes lectures and laboratory exercises that focus on metalinguistic factors in language use. The course concentrates on theoretical knowledge related to the following linguistic areas: phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicology, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, stylistics, corpus linguistics. The focus of the course is on actual language use, with authentic texts (written and/or spoken, belonging to different registers) and electronic language corpora used as examples. The course concentrated on three main areas: theoretical introduction to basic concepts of corpus linguistics; corpus concordances; analysis and construction of corpora with the support of computer programs. Topics of metalinguistic analysis covered in the seminar include: idiom vs. open choice, register and sociolinguistic variability. Examples are taken from: British National Corpus; Corpus of Contemporary American English; Corpus of Global Web-Based English. Concepts analyzed include: corpus, corpus linguistics, corpus based linguistics, corpus driven linguistics, concordance, collocation, colligation, semantic prosody, semantic preference and lexical priming, as well as their practical applications. Assessment in the course is based on a written midterm that covers the theory part of the course and an oral exam that covers the practical part of the course. These two exams make up 2/3 of the grade. The remaining 1/3 is based on the laboratory assignments.