English

This course offers students the tools to come to an informed view about different models of development, whether there are better or worse ways of intervening in poorer countries, or whether it may be better to do nothing at all. The course considers a series of issues including economic takeoff in Pacific-Asia, ideas of dependency, neo-liberal theories of development, including the rise of the governance agenda, post-development, and the politics of international aid. Students learn to link theory and practice and to show the relevance of past debates to contemporary issues.

This course is a non-academic creative writing course intended to foster student creativity through the practice of creative expression in written English. Topics include creative nonfiction, poetry, and fiction. Students analyze readings from a writer's perspective to heighten awareness of features common to successful creative writing. Students adapt these features to their own work as appropriate, using a process approach that encourages thoughtful peer review and revision for personal expression.  

The goals of this class are to articulate eloquently in English about creative texts, write in multiple genres that demonstrate an engagement with course readings and discussions, and enhance creativity and critical thinking by synthesizing feedback into one's own work. 

The course focuses on integrative human physiology, which means how the internal organ systems interact to maintain homeostasis. This includes the structure of the organ systems (anatomy, histology) and their function and regulation (physiology). The course includes the following organs and organ systems: the heart, the circulatory system and the blood, the kidneys and the urinary tract, the respiratory system, the digestive tract and accessory organs, endocrine organs and the reproductive organs. The structure, function and regulation of the musculature is also studied. Integrated knowledge of the autonomic nervous system and energy metabolism are also included. The organ systems in question are studied from the cellular to systemic level. Major emphasis is placed on the understanding of homeostatic regulation. The course concerns how homeostasis is maintained at rest and under different conditions such as physical activity and potentially homeostasis imbalance changes in the surroundings. In order to explain physiological functions, the required anatomy and histology is studied in parallel with physiology.  Course requires 60 credits and is graded Pass or Fail.
 

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 focuses on the following topics:

1. Market failures in health insurance: a) Adverse selection b) Moral hazard c) Other inefficiencies
2. Economic rationales for government intervention and redistribution
3. Insurance design and payment systems
4. Regulatory intervention and the public/private mix in health insurance
5. Comparative social insurance markets

At the end of the module, students: have knowledge of law and economics theories applied to insurance and social insurance markets and have insights on national, international, and comparative case studies; know how to utilize quantitative and qualitative information to analyze the impact of regulatory instruments on the efficiency of insurance and social insurance markets design, and critically develop proposals for optimal policy design.

This course provides students with a further grounding in the important statistical and probabilistic techniques and models relevant to the non-life insurance industry.

This course examines marine conservation and spatial prioritization tools and protocols for enabling multiple simultaneous uses of the coastal marine estate and their application to environmental management.

This course introduces more advanced topics in calculus and ordinary differential equations. The course introduces students to multi-dimensional vector calculus and differential operators, and to the calculus of variations and the concept of variational problems. Differential equations play a key role in both pure and applied mathematics. The importance of these ideas is emphasized by the inclusion of a number of applications in physics, engineering, and biology. 

The course explores the unique landscape of sustainable fashion in Italy, highlighting the interplay between its rich historical, cultural, and artisanal heritage, and the contemporary surge in experimental and high-tech practices driven by R&D centers and emerging brands. Students examine how these two facets intertwine – both theoretically and in practice – shaping a dynamic and contemporary sustainable fashion scenario. Thus, the course delves into Italy’s artisanal legacy in fashion and textile, presenting case studies of local craftsmanship and companies, accompanied by an overview of contemporary cutting-edge experiences, to assess their role in the current sustainable paradigm.

To this extent, students are primarily introduced to the historical development and meaning of sustainable fashion in the Italian context, to then focus on more recent trends in material innovations, design, and production processes. The contents of the course also cover the foundations of sustainable fashion as a global phenomenon, to critically reflect on its definition and to explore key sustainability principles. Classes are scheduled according to macro themes and employ a hybrid approach, blending theoretical knowledge (traditional lectures) with practical application through class activities (hands-on or meta design projects). An interdisciplinary perspective is adopted to demonstrate the possibilities of integration of ecology, philosophy, science and art in the design perspective. The course features field visits to local museums, institutions, and designers’ studios to witness sustainability in action. Additionally, guest lectures from field experts and scholars provide specific insights or address key challenges.

This entry-level course covers statistical analysis related to survey methodologies and statistical analysis tools such as R, Stata, and Python for data analysis as a general topic of international studies.  

Students learn various data analysis methodologies in the fields of international economy, international development cooperation, and international relations, and how to generate, interpret, and critically judge quantitative analysis results on major topics covered in those fields. 

This course is ideal for undergraduate students in international studies who want to apply econometric principles to real world data. It is particularly suited for those seeking to develop skills in R programming, including data cleaning, visualization, statistical modeling, and interpretation, to support independent research and future academic or professional endeavors. 

China's economy ranked second worldwide for the past 12 years, while the country is accelerating the opening-up of its financial markets, including the foreign exchange and stock markets, as well as the fixed income market, to global investors. In the first part of this class, we are going to introduce some basic understanding of Chinese financial market with microstructure foundation. The competition among exchanges, development of trading algorithms, and design of robust market systems all requires combining the theory of market microstructure with an understanding of institutional detail of how financial markets work in practice. Liquidity, transaction costs, trading strategies, insider traders, short sellers, high-frequency trading, crashes, market fragmentation, circuit breakers, market design are topics of great interest to finance professors, market participants, policy makers, and sometimes even to the general public. The second part of this course will focus on Chinese stock market, compared with developed stock markets. The general principles are applicable to all markets. By taking this course a student will have an opportunity to learn (1) how trading takes place in financial markets; (2) how economic theories relate to this trading; (3) how legal, regulatory, and ethical considerations shape the trading process.