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This course comprehensively introduces the physics of stars. It explores the fundamental principles that govern the structure, evolution, and final fate of stars. The following topics are covered: 

1. How to measure stellar parameters. 

2. Stellar atmosphere and radiative processes.  

3. Fundamental equations of stellar evolution.  

4. Stellar interiors.  

5. Stellar stabilities.  

6. Formation of stars.  

7. Overview of stellar evolution.  

8. The end of stars.  

9. Compact objects. 

Cities at War is a lecture series bringing together scholars from war-affected cities to explore how armed conflict shapes urban life and space. Unlike studies that conflate urban militarization with cities enduring active conflict, this series centers on the physical destruction, ruination, and everyday survival strategies within cities at war. It examines how planning, reconstruction, displacement, and commodification are formed by the continuum of times of war and times of peace. A key aspect is the erasure of knowledge, heritage, and memory - both through material destruction and the ideological rewriting of cities in post-conflict nation-building.

This course provides an in-depth critical introduction to a range of important concepts, musical works, institutions, and people in music of a given time period, and explores both their impact on musical culture and their relationship to wider political, social, and artistic issues. Topics may vary by year.

This course introduces students to the study of the archaeology and history of ancient Egypt from the start of the 1st Dynasty at c. 3000 BC, and through the two Pyramid Ages of the Old and Middle Kingdoms, ending at c. 1650 BC. The course focuses on providing a basic solid grounding on the chronology, geography, society, and political organization of Egypt during this period. It furthermore looks to aspects of religion, daily life, and provide some insights into art and literature, particularly pertinent for the Middle Kingdom, the classic period of Egyptian literature.

This cours centers on the theme of, "The Samurai across Time and Space." Focusing on the samurai as one of Japan’s most distinctive and enduring cultural icons, it examines various sources, including myths, warrior narratives, medieval tales, dramatic literature, paintings, and samurai films produced within and outside Japan. The course offers a comprehensive view of the history and diversity of samurai representations, revealing how images of premodern Japan and its people have been received and shaped both in Japan and abroad.

This course introduces the fundamental themes of intercultural communication by drawing on current language and intercultural communication theory, research, and practice, to better understand communication between culturally diverse individuals. Through experiential projects and personal reflections, students explore what it means to be an interculturally competent communicator or mediator and the competencies necessary for interacting more appropriately and effectively in intercultural encounters. By engaging with readings, project and reflections, students are encouraged to become more actively engaged with intercultural interactions and to foster an ethno-relative mindset with greater curiosity and open-mindedness. Topics include conceptions of culture and multiculturalism, the relationship between language, communication, power and context, language and cultural socialization, identity and belonging, ‘othering’, prejudice and stereotypes, facework and conflict management, intercultural transition, intercultural relationship-building, social justice and global citizenship.

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. In this course, students acquire necessary knowledge to read and critically interpret architecture between the fourteenth and sixteenth Centuries as well as the methodological tools to understand the territory, the city, and its major buildings. In addition, the course deals with a number of theoretical and practical issues of Renaissance architecture that are still alive nowadays.

The course provides a historical overview of the major figures of Italian Renaissance architecture from 1400 to 1600—Brunelleschi, Alberti, Bramante, Raphael, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Michelangelo, Peruzzi, Giulio Romano, Sanmicheli, Sansovino, Palladio as well as an outlook on a selection of European Renaissance architects. They are analyzed within the cities or countries they operated and will be compared with the cultural, social, and political local context. The second part of the course is an overview on a selection of European courts and on the role of humanistic architecture at the dawn of colonialism. Issues such as local antiquities, revival and survival, rules and license, theory of architecture, drawings and graphic conventions are addressed throughout the course. 

This course provides a panorama of how behavioral approaches can help to understand key issues in the political and social sciences. It examines the central cognitive and behavioral processes relevant to the analysis of social and political dynamics. Through a combination of formal lectures and class discussion, the course provides the tools necessary to apply a behavioral perspective to political and social issues. Furthermore, the methodological and theoretical limitations and challenges of these approaches are discussed throughout the semester in order to enable students to think and apply these approaches critically.

The multidisciplinary nature of management is reflected in this course. It examines the conceptual frameworks and techniques of marketing and organizational behavior, which are complementary to one another in reflecting an organization's relation to its internal and external environment. In doing so, the course develops an understanding of the growth of marketing and its role in management. Students consider how the behavior of individuals and groups in organizations may be understood and managed and also how managers might better appreciate the markets and market forces they are committed to dealing with. 

This course provides breadth and depth in organization theory to train the students in advanced problem solving. Put differently, central concepts within organization theory such as power, control, networks, strategy, leadership, change, and learning are discussed and problematized.