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This course introduces the field of public health and aims to provide a bird's-eye view of the discipline's orientation and content, the historical development and institutional status of public health in Taiwan, current important public health research and practice issues, and the field of practice of public health professionals through a macro perspective.

The course covers basics of Turkish language, alphabet, vowel harmony, simple, past and future tenses. Topic-based vocabulary is provided, and simple dialogue introduced.

This course aims to engender a mastery of the fundamentals of programming in C++, a language compiled to optimised machine-code, usable in a uniquely wide range of scenarios, from low level ‘close to the metal’ ones to ones involving high level programming abstractions. Command-line tools are used for program development so the module serves also as an introduction to that approach.

This course examines the economic geography of developing countries through a Marxist theoretical lens, exploring how capitalism creates and maintains global and local inequalities through spatial processes. Students engage with foundational concepts including primitive accumulation, uneven development, world-systems theory, and the new international division of labor to understand how wealth extraction, labor exploitation, and environmental degradation operate across geographic scales. The course traces the historical development of coreperiphery relations from colonialism through contemporary neoliberal globalization, analyzing specific processes such as export processing zones, land grabbing, structural adjustment programs, and resource extraction in the Global South. Through critical examination of topics including urbanization and slums, gendered labor relations, social reproduction, and environmental crisis, students will develop analytical tools, including mapping, to understand how capitalism necessarily produces geographic inequality while also exploring forms of resistance, social movements, and alternative development strategies emerging from the Global South. Using learning circles and collaborative pedagogical approaches that embody democratic and egalitarian principles, the course connects theoretical analysis with contemporary struggles for social and environmental justice, preparing students to critically analyze and engage with questions of global development, spatial inequality, and transformative social change. 

Students will complete syllabus quizzes, mapping exercises using GIS, a midterm exam, and a final research paper. 

This course examines the social and economic justifications for intellectual property rights as well as their multi-layered regulation. Drawing upon a selection of domestic intellectual property regimes, this course shows the impact of international and European law and decision-making on EU Member States and critically evaluates some of the policies and goals that underlie today’s intellectual property. Although the idea of multi-level regulation of patent and copyright laws goes back to the end of the 19th century, intellectual property rights and their enforcement have been globalized more effectively since the establishment of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 1994 and the related adoption of an international agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (known as the ‘TRIPS’ Agreement). The course provides an in-depth examination of the most important provisions of this Agreement and of other international intellectual property conventions, as well as EU regulations and directives that sought to harmonize (or in certain cases even unify, as in the case of trademarks and designs) national legal systems such as the Irish one.

This course covers topics in contemporary issues of psychology, health, and public health, including clinical, institutional, historical, and public policy aspects. Prerequisite: a course in public health.

The majority of lectures in political psychology focus on the American context. This course thinks outside the box and shifts attention to the intersection of politics and psychology in a comparative manner, while still keeping the U.S. case in mind. The course begins by reviewing the foundations of political psychology and then explores the current state of the field. Next, it delves into how individuals make decisions, the mechanisms used in information processing, the importance of both "cold" and "hot" cognition in forming political behavior, and the role of groups and identities in shaping political opinions. Lastly, the course concludes by examining the relationships between groups and exploring why polarization is becoming increasingly prevalent in present-day politics.

This course explores how creative advertising can be engaging, exhilarating, and even world changing. Combining conceptual thinking with practical approaches, students will focus on developing the creative dimensions for advertising campaigns related to contemporary problems ranging from low product awareness through to public social issues. Students will engage imaginatively with client briefs and develop advertising concepts all the while exploring the history of creative theory and practice, as well as the storytelling, art direction, copywriting, and pitching aspects of creative advertising.

This topical course surveys specific areas, genres, or authors of modern European literature. The readings focus on the literary discussions and representations of the encounter between the East and the West. In addition, the historical events that ushered in the new era, shaping and developing modern European literature are examined. 

Under the premise that the West was constructed through encounters with non-Western and that its aspects appear in Western modern literature, the first half of the lecture examines how the discovery of the 'New World' is analyzed, discussed, and embodied in literary works, among the various events that determined the character of Western modernity, and the second half of the lecture points the point of contact between Western imperialist expansion and modern literature.  

The particular literature or genre selections may change from term to term. 

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. The course provides a broad view of the major economic, organizational, and governance-related features of several artistic, cultural, and entertainment activities in creative industries. At the end of the course, the student is able to analyze the business model of organizations operating in the cultural and creative industries.

Upon completion of the course, students are able to: Define the distinctive features of organizations operating in the creative industries; Illustrate how these organizations can be financially viable; Apply analytical, planning and control tools such as the business model canvas and revenues and costs analysis; Analyze and critically evaluate the business model and governance solution of an organization operating in the creative industries; Develop and improve presentation skills, both in written and oral form. The course is organized around four themes: Defining creative industries, defining business models and the Business model canvas, understanding better the Costs and Revenues components of the business model canvas, and governance and business model in the creative industries.