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This advanced course builds on prerequisite courses in business administration and economics, such as financial accounting, intermediate accounting, financial management, statistics, and economics. This course strengthens an in-depth and balanced view of the usefulness and limitations of financial statement analysis and corporate valuation concepts.  

Topics include Capital raising priorities and investment decisions, Expected shareholder return and performance evaluation, Weighted average cost of capital and return on invested capital, Growth strategy and financial debt, Importance of working capital management, financial liabilities and operating liabilities, New capital securities and investment decisions, Performance evaluation and income statement, Operating cash flow and EBITDA, Strategies and valuation for improving intrinsic value, Utilization of PBR and PER concepts, Diversification and concentration strategies.  

This course examines politics and political science using a feminist analysis and a gendered lens. The course looks at the gendered nature of politics and examines topics including women in politics, gendered institutions, gender power, political leadership through a gendered lens and mechanisms to address the under-representation of women in political life.

This advanced course introduces the basics of artificial intelligence, which include learning, searching, knowledge management, inference, and their applications. Transformer and Large Language Model are mainly discussed in addition to other types of deep neural networks. Classical artificial intelligence topics (before the deep learning era) is also overviewed. Applications to solve web, industrial, and scientific problems with artificial intelligence will also be introduced. 

Prerequisite: It is strongly recommended that students complete other basic machine learning and deep learning courses before enrolling in this course. The instructor reviews the basics of machine learning and deep learning, but it is not a guarantee that the review will be enough for students who did not previously take any related courses.  

This course introduces the characteristic of the materials of engineering and mechanical action of a material. The course emphasizes the need to understand of all kinds of the materials, the mechanical property of the engineering materials as well as to acquire the knowledge for selecting the required material for the particular engineering design. It is imperative to discover the characteristics of engineering materials and their mechanical actions so as understand how each material will perform in practice, not just in theory. Students attempt to determine the optimal mechanical action of materials. Text: William D. Callister and David G. Rethwisch, FUNDAMENTALS OF MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING. Assessment: exam, assignments, project and attendance.

At the end of the course, the student can analyze structural and dynamic aspects of populations. Particularly, the student is able: to measure population size, variation and distribution in time and space; to measure and analyze population structural characteristics; and to measure and analyze demographic dynamics components.

Course contents include: Population studies; sources of demographic data; population composition and variation; relations between demographic dynamics and structures; elements of demographic analysis: crude and age-specific rates, standardization methods; age, period and cohort; Lexis diagram, managing data and processes on the diagram; period and cohort analysis; life tables and life tables conceived as a stationary population; mortality by cause; fertility and reproduction measures; the demographic transition and forecasts (elements); and migration in population analysis.

This course guides students in a shared exploration of the history of Chinese-US relations mainly from the 1770s to the present. It starts with the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), through the Republican period (1911-1949), and through the current era (1949-present). The course incorporates a collection of primary sources, secondary sources and non-traditional materials like art, music, new media, and films. One of the main themes of the course is examining the dominant national mythologies of the United States and China, and how these have developed since the respective nations’ beginnings. The course examines the layers of national narratives in different periods both in terms of how the two powers perceived and depicted themselves, and how they perceived and depicted each other. It also explores the most recent national narratives, incorporating popular and official voices in Beijing and Taipei, Hollywood and Washington, and more.

This course covers the fundamentals of technological innovation management and strategy. Students explore how firms and nations develop, implement, and manage technological innovation to create competitive advantages in the global market.  

The course focuses on key aspects of firms’ innovation strategy and management, including sources and types of innovation, firms’ decisions regarding market entry with new technologies, evaluation and selection of R&D projects, standards competition, and intellectual property strategies (including patenting strategy). Additionally, students develop analytical skills to work with archival data commonly used in quantitative technology management research, including metadata from research papers and patents. 

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 is an applied course on international development economics, organized around a few selected topics. The course offers the theoretical and analytical tools is to understand the different interpretations of social and economic development - in its evolving features - both at the country and at the international level. With the objective of providing the basic context for correctly framing the Sustainable Development Goals, the course focuses on issues such as poverty, hunger, inequality, migration, and unbalanced development. The experience of the so-called emerging countries is one of the points of view. Students acquire the ability to tackle the problems of economic development and competition in an applied and comparative perspective, with thematic in-depth applications.

This is an advanced and critical course on issues of international development in light of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The course covers the following topics, analyzing and comparing different positions: Poverty definitions and measures; Poverty statistical evidence; Economic inequality definitions and measures; The Kuznets curve relationship between income growth and inequality; The debate after Kuznets; World inequality recent trends; Inequality in income and wealth in the long run; World inequality recent trends; Climate change and development: who and what is causing it, climate change inequality; Assessing the consequences of climate change; How has the world economic order changed in the last two centuries; Where is the world heading: globalization and the current international economic order; International relations, the economic order and the new geography of world economic power.

This course provide a general knowledge of European politics, society, economy and culture between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. It focuses on the most significant events and developments that shaped European history, including the rise of humanism, religious reform, state formation and centralization, overseas expansion, global capitalism, and the emergence of representative government. It looks at the consequences brought by these developments, most notably on European political and cultural practices; and study how they impacted traditional understandings of human nature to give rise to modern ideas of human rights.

This course teaches the psychiatric and neurological disorders that predispose to criminal offences. Most of this course pertains to neurocognitive processes of criminal offenders. Contextual factors, such as the history and current state of neuropsychology and psychiatry are discussed to provide the desired background knowledge of this topic. A considerable part of the course is devoted to neuropsychological abnormalities in offenders who are affected by a psychiatric disorder. Another substantial part of the course pertains to offenders with acquired brain injury. The connection between neural abnormalities and criminal offences are critically evaluated for each psychiatric or neurological disorder. A completely different side of neuropsychology and law, the effect of neurocognitive disorders in victims/witnesses of crimes on their eyewitness testimony, are also dealt with.