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This course was designed for non-biology majors to show how biology is used to teach essential ideas, such as whether DNA is sufficient to create life; how life evolves; what cloning is, and how bionics could improve or impact our future life. Additionally, the class explores public misconceptions and naivete about science perpetuated by movies and the extent to which such films borrow from or, in some cases, even predict scientific facts.  

This course requires weekly screenings of a feature-length movie before the lectures in the classroom. Films and topics are organized around biological themes. 

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. At the end of the course the student is able to choose and use recent methods for web and social mining. In particular the student is able to extract knowledge from the web and social media by applying machine learning techniques to analyze associations and carry out clickstream, sentiment, text mining, and network analysis. The student is able to: use methods for extracting knowledge from the web; use recent data mining software for solving practical problems of web mining; and has the experience to carry out independent study and research. Lectures and laboratory exercises using R software.

The course is divided into 4 parts: Aims and steps of web mining; Data extraction; Text mining; Analysis of Social Networks

The course equips practical experience and skills in analyzing data, using statistical techniques frequently used in the sciences. The skills include designing experiments, choosing appropriate statistical methods for visual display and statistical modelling of data, model checking, interpretation and reporting of statistical results, and understanding of limitations of statistical methods and data. Topics covered include Introduction to statistical notation, linear regression, design and analysis of experiments, generalized linear models. Strong emphasis on the practical application of the above methods, using open-source statistical software such as R.  Course entry requirements: A pass in STA1000F/S or STA1006S or STA1007S or STA1106H or STA1100S or STA1008F/S) and (MAM1000W or MAM1031F or MAM1033F or MAM1004F/S or MAM1005H or MAM1010F/S or MAM1020F/S or MAM1110F/H).

This course covers processes and techniques that help corporate managers make financial decisions in an international setting. 

Instead of introducing fundamental international finance concepts in a simplified one-country setting, this course takes a global approach and studies different nations (with each their own currency) who interact politically, economically, and financially. 

Students examine qualitative and quantitative financial methodologies for making major financial decisions in the international business setting and learn to identify global issues and trends in both academic and practical areas of international finance.  

Prerequisite: Financial Management 

This course examines the role of human psychology, human thought and behavior, in the climate and biodiversity crises. It explores how we got where we are, what it is about human thought and behavior and the structures and systems created that produced these crises and inactions. The course covers how the Climate Crisis is affecting human health, behavior, and well-being as well as the ways these effects are unevenly distributed across the world and the implications of this inequity. Finally, this course covers what psychology has to offer in terms of solutions and how to leverage our understanding of human thought and behavior to enact climate justice.

This interdisciplinary seminar explores how literature and film grapple with the complexities of political power, authority, resistance, and representation. Drawing from a range of historical and geopolitical contexts, the course examines how writers and filmmakers narrate, aestheticize, and challenge systems of domination, the dynamics of oppression and liberation, and the moral ambiguities inherent in political engagement. Through lectures, screenings of film excerpts, class discussions, and written assignments, students acquire critical tools to analyze how cultural productions both reflect and shape political realities. The course features close readings of literary texts and critical analyses of landmark films, including CITIZEN KANE and CASABLANCA. It examines the theatrical staging of power in Shakespeare's HENRY V and its contrasting cinematic interpretations by Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh; the construction of the Napoleonic and Lincolnian myths, from Abel Gance to Steven Spielberg; and the expression of American democratic idealism in Frank Capra's cinema. Further topics include the representation of atrocity and memory in works addressing the Holocaust, McCarthyism, the nuclear era, Watergate, the Vietnam War. Emphasis is placed on the aesthetics of authoritarianism and resistance, as well as on portrayals of the presidential figure in American and French cinema. The course interrogates the subdued complicity of the butler (Anthony Hopkins) in James Ivory's THE REMAINS OF THE DAY and explore the differences and similarities between Joseph Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS and its adaptation by Francis Ford Coppola in APOCALYPSE NOW. Throughout the semester, the course critically engages with propaganda, the narrative construction of ideology, the tension between personal conscience and collective responsibility, and the ways in which historical memory is shaped—or suppressed—by literary and cinematic forms.

This course explores the organic connection between design and theory and builds an effective and integrated design methodology by examining how design interacts with social contexts and diverse relationships.   

The course investigates how discourses traditionally considered external to the field of architecture—such as those from the social sciences, cultural studies, and environmental theory—inform, shape, and enrich architectural practice and production. 

Students learn the design principles that appear in architecture and art, and based on this, they study how to apply them to architectural forms. 

This course introduces students to the classic and current personality theories and theorists in an in-depth manner, and encourages critical evaluation and reflection. The major theories include: psychoanalytic theory, evolutionary theory, humanistic and existentialist theories, social cognitive theory, behaviorist perspectives, and biological and trait theories. Additionally, the course reviews taxonomies such as the DSM-V.

Business Simulation Game aims to help students develop management decision-making skills without running real-world risks. Students build teams to run businesses in the computer-simulated competitive market. They make various top management decisions for sequential periods, and the performance is evaluated based on multiple indices. The team that achieves the best overall performance will win the game! Also, top performers will get chance to participate the National Competition.

In collaboration with an artist/artists in residence, students will experience training and/or rehearsal and/or creative development practices geared towards public performance. Guided by the artists and lecturers, students will participate physically, conceptually, and creatively through the course of intensive workshops, framed by preparatory and post-experience seminars.