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This course discusses the main instruments of management accounting. Topics include: income statement types; CVP analysis; pricing decisions; budgets; job and process costing; ABC and department costing. Pre-requisites: Introduction to Accounting.

This course examines the history of the Graeco-Roman world during the first millennium BCE: from the Greek Early Iron Age to the rise of the Roman Empire. The main topics include material culture, the Greek city-states, the Persian Wars, Greek politics and theater, Athenian imperialism, ancient daily life, mythology and religion, Alexander the Great, the Hellenistic kingdoms, and the Roman Republic and Empire (about 70/30% Greece/Rome). While the focus is on Greece and Rome, attention will also be paid to their interaction with neighboring cultures such as Persia and Anatolia, as well as to the reception of the Classical world up until today.  

This course introduces students to the subject of Criminology through the lens of the Scottish Criminal Justice System. It begins with an overview of the Scottish Criminal Justice System before examining the major avenues by which the public obtain information about crime – as victims of crime and from the media and official statistics. The course examines the processes that have developed Scotland's definitions of crime and the broader social and political context in which this crime occurs.

This course is a comprehensive introduction to basic vocabulary, grammatical structures and speech patterns of written and oral French for students with no previous knowledge of French. 

This course examines power series methods (ordinary and regular singular points, Bessel's equation); boundary value problems and separation of variables (Fourier series and other orthogonal series), applications to the vibrating string, heat flow, potentials.

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. This course provides students the tools to address humanities research in general, and in particular in women and gender history. The specific focus is on methodological sources and sites of memory for women’s studies.

During their lives, women produced and received documents (e.g. letters, diaries and memoirs), which are preserved in several public and private archives. This material is particularly important to understand women's status and stories: marginalized in the private sphere, they enjoyed fewer rights than men, also for what concerned access to wealth. However, as the analysis of women's papers shows, they stood for themselves and negotiated the boundaries of the spaces and roles society assigned to them. The analysis of documents by women allows us to recover their voices and to clearly understand the importance of the ordinary in the wider societal context. By approaching women's documents from a theoretical and practical perspective, this course provides students with tools for research in the humanities, with a particular focus on women and gender history.

The course introduces students to the study of nations and nationalism from both an empirical and a normative perspective. It encourages students to explore the advantages and disadvantages of nationalism and national identity in light of recent history and current political developments. Students are introduced to contemporary normative debates on the political morality of nationalism and provided with conceptual tools to engage in these debates in a theoretically sophisticated way. They employ their conceptual and theoretical knowledge to explore possible solutions to contemporary political problems involving nationalist claims, and they deepen their understanding of the relationship between empirical and normative analyses of politics.

This course discusses the concepts, models, and basic theories of the role that entrepreneurs and companies play in economic growth. Topics include: the rise of big business; emergence of managerial capitalism and the US model; alternative types of companies-- Japan, Europe, China; flexible specialization and industrial districts; sources of competitive advantage-- technological innovation, trademarks, and marketing; multinational enterprises.  

The course examines different types of foreign market entry strategy; the world trade regime and the various elements that comprise this environment e.g. EU/ NAFTA; and issues in international finance, management, production, and labor. The course is devoted to an analysis of the global business environment, concentrating on the world trading system including the important role played by the international financial institutions. The course, focusing more on macro-economic business patterns, processes and institutions, provides the basis for the International Business and the Multinational Enterprise course which looks more at the micro-level and the individual firm in a global business environment.

In this course, students explore the intersection of environmental geography and Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) to address the grand challenges facing our world. This course equips students with the knowledge and skills necessary to design, implement, and advocate for NbS that effectively contribute to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By understanding the intricate relationships between natural systems and human development, students are prepared to create innovative solutions that promote environmental sustainability, economic viability, and social equity – key concepts in environmental geography.