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This course explores questions of memory, remembering, and time as these are refracted and represented via a range of verbal, literary, and cultural forms. The course considers the making of collective and public memory (e.g. the creation of national pasts; cultures of commemoration; oral history; testimonial forms; displacement, exile and global conflict; literatures of war) but also the question of individual and personal memory (e.g. language and identity; narrative and subjectivity; literature and psychoanalytic theory). As such, the course opens onto a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: the relation between the literary text and the history text; life-writing, autobiography and memoir; representations of childhood and ageing; engagements with the archive; the question of silenced, repressed or invisible histories; the historical, post-colonial and post-apartheid novel; discourses of trauma, truth and reconciliation; old age and forgetting; death and commemoration. Course entry requirements: At least second-year status.

This course covers an overview of solid-state microanalysis methods, including elastic and inelastic scattering, identification of phases by morphology, chemical composition, electron diffraction, and microscopy. Principles and functions of different types of microscopes for materials analysis as well as spectroscopy for elemental analysis, analysis of spectra are also reviewed. Methods for surface analysis: Atomic force microscopy, scanning tunnelling microscopy, LEED, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) are covered.

This is a special topics course in Global Korean Studies. Topics are subject to change. The course examines political, social and economic inequality in South Korea. Through rigorous analysis of scholarly literature and critical engagement with the readings, students develop a comprehensive understanding of various dimensions of inequalities, one of the fundamental challenges facing contemporary Korea.  In the second part of the course, students develop an academic research idea and design a research project exploring a specific aspect of Korean society, regarding inequalities. Expect to formulate a well-defined research question, construct a coherent research proposal, and present it in a scholarly setting. While the primary focus of this course is Korea, we adopt a comparative perspective to explore the academic advantages and broader contributions of studying Korean politics and inequality within the wider field of the social sciences.  

Topics include Facts and trends of inequalities in Korea, Unequal representation by age, Unequal representation by gender, Educational inequality, Trends in economic inequality in Korea, Facts and trends of inequalities in Korea, Social consequences of economic inequality, Medical consequences of economic inequality, Gender inequality, Ethnic minorities, Fighting against inequality. 

This course covers analytic functions, special functions (gamma function, Bessel functions, Legendre polynomials and spherical harmonics), Fourier series and Fourier transforms, Laplace transforms, Ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, and green functions.

This course explores the principles of preventive medicine, focusing on health promotion, disease prevention, and rehabilitation. It covers primary prevention strategies such as nutrition, exercise, vaccination, environmental risk reduction, and the prevention of occupational or accidental injuries. Secondary prevention emphasizes early detection and timely intervention through disease screening, health checkups, and identification of pre-clinical conditions. Tertiary prevention addresses limiting disability, preventing complications, and supporting recovery through medical treatment, psychological support, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and long-term care.

This advanced topics course covers international trade institutions, trade law, and trade policy. Students explore trade policies, how they are implemented by the United States and other countries, and how their use is constrained by international trade agreements.  

The Fall 2025 offering of this course covers fundamental principles of international trade rules established by the World Trade Organization (WTO), including the principles of non-discrimination, trade remedy measures, SPS, TBT, and exceptions to trade obligations. 

In addition, students examine newly emerging issues in trade, such as environmental concerns, digital trade and e-commerce, intellectual property rights, and trade in services, and delve into the most frequently used methods of dispute resolution: mediation, arbitration, and litigation. Through lectures, simulations, and student presentations, students learn the procedures and actual workings of these three methods at various settings such as WTO, WIPO, and LCIA, inter alia. 

Students should expect to present a substantial case study and produce a final paper.  

This course helps students enhance their communication skills through practical scenarios focused on job-seeking and early-career business communication. Students learn how to communicate effectively to accomplish written and oral tasks in the workplace and be able to develop a useful business communication toolkit targeted at external and internal audiences. The course is designed and structured to address students’ learning needs in job-seeking and in their early careers. The course introduces students to strategies for handling the communication challenges which fresh graduates can expect in diverse work environments. They will have opportunities to learn and practice how to succeed in business writing, presentations, interviews, meetings, and collaborative assignments with the essential interpersonal communication skills such as active listening, cogent argumentation, and clear expression in writing and speaking. 

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. At the end of the course, students know how to interpret the characteristics of the contemporary city in a changing climate. The student will know the main available tools and methods to understand, plan, and design adaptive communities, taking into account the peculiarities of diverse context (urban, rural, island, mountain). Greening and ecosystem services are explored as a strong driver of resilience and sustainability, while the principle of environmental and climate justice is integrated throughout the course.

The course begins with an introduction to planning principles, processes, methods, and tools to support students' understanding around the concept of sustainability, resilience, and planning. Planning is considered in both rural and urban environments, considering those as a complex socio-ecological system. Around the idea of planning, the course touches upon the following topics: planning in a changing climate, but how is the climate changing?; climate and environmental justice; climate risks in urban and rural areas; urban areas: greening the city; rural regeneration theory and practice from case studies and projects; and landscape management and values.

This course examines the tools of basic marketing research, along with how to apply them and provide a managerial interpretation of the findings. It covers key areas of marketing research including problem identification, defining project scope, developing a research approach, conducting fieldwork, engaging in analysis and reporting are featured heavily. In addition, issues such as sampling, quantitative research tools and marketing implications are covered. 

This course examines Australian archaeology. It covers topics such as community-based archaeology, decolonization and how the past informs contemporary issues, providing requisite knowledge for working in the archaeological sector in Australia. Following the stratigraphic sequence of an archaeological excavation, this course moves from the present through British invasion and into the deep past to reveal the layers of extraordinary capacity, diversity and complexity of Australia's First Peoples.