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Health psychology is the scientific study of how biological, psychological, and social factors affect health promotion as well as the prevention and treatment of illness. The course looks at how people stay healthy, why they become ill, and how they cope and recover when they are ill. This course introduces students to the theoretical models, research methodology, empirical findings, and current issues in health psychology.

This topical course covers Twentieth-Century American Crime Fiction. This is one of the most popular genres worldwide—especially in the United States. Despite its enormous impact on popular culture, this genre remains one of the least developed areas in terms of recognized literary value, which makes it a fascinating subject for study. In this course, we read a variety of crime fiction works that have captured the American imagination throughout the twentieth century, and we will: 1. Examine each text in detail, discussing its aesthetic, stylistic, and thematic qualities; 2. Explore how the genre has evolved in conversation with popular culture, in order to better understand the sociocultural significance of crime fiction in America; 3. Use crime fiction as a lens through which to critically engage with existing theories of genre in literary criticism. 

This course provides a thematic study of historical and contemporary book arts in the Islamic world, drawing on the art of painting and calligraphy as well as key texts to engage with the foundational interrelations between text, image, orality and other forms of sensory experience. Starting with early Qurans, it moves to pre-modern illustrated manuscripts, and modern and contemporary works of art inspired by manuscript cultures, exploring histories of authorship, portraiture, patronage, workshop practices, audience and perception, as well as the collecting and display of manuscripts in museums. 

The course introduces the world of business administration, and discusses how organizations, particularly in the real estate and built environment field, are managed. The core topics on the course comprise corporate social responsibility (environmental and societal issues), strategy, leadership, marketing, financial accounting, management accounting, organizational culture, and innovation. The course studies businesses' goals, conditions under which they operate, and management and analysis tools. Special focus is placed on strategic management. Societally critical topics, including corporate social responsibility and transforming spatial needs due to the societal environmental and digital transition are widely discussed during the course.

This course combines a bold and sweeping overview of the history of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East over two millennia, with an exploration of the nature of empires and imperialism in antiquity. Students explore how imperial states built and maintained their power (including their efforts to assert and justify their power to themselves and their subjects); the experiences of other populations and cultures that were conquered or incorporated into ancient empires; and the contested legacies of imperial states, both in antiquity and today. As well as tracing the histories of large imperial or hegemonic powers, such as the Achaemenid Persians, the Hellenistic Greek ‘kingdoms’ and Rome, the course also introduces students to the wide range of other cultures that lived under and alongside them, including those of Babylonia, Judea, and Egypt.

This course covers readings and analysis of ideas, theories, and contemporary issues in international relations. This course develops reading, analytical, and critical skills as well as improves the abilities to present, argue, write, and critique. Students classify Political Science concepts and theories, International Relations theories, and global and domestic political situations.

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 module, students: know the most relevant univariate and multivariate analytical techniques and tools; can perform statistical analyses of cross-sector and longitudinal data and deliver suitable graphic representations, making results comprehensible to organizations’ decision makers.

The course content is divided as follows:

1. Introduction to data: Data basics; Sampling principles; Experiments and observational studies
2. Summarizing data: Examining numerical data; Considering categorical data
3. Probability: Defining probability; Conditional probability; Bayes theorem
4. Random variables: Discrete and continuous; Expectation
5. Distributions of random variables: Normal; Geometric; Bernoulli
6. Foundations for inference: Point estimates; Confidence intervals; Hypothesis testing

This course introduces the fundamental properties and characteristics of solid-state materials and structures used in modern semiconductor devices and integrated circuit (IC) technologies. 

Topics include Solid-State Electronics and applications, Crystal structure of solids, Introduction to quantum mechanics, Introduction to the quantum theory of solids, Semiconductor in equilibrium, Carrier transport phenomena, Excess carriers in semiconductors, The pn junction. 

This course examines major organizational theories to critically explore organization in contemporary society. The interdisciplinary field of organization studies draws on concepts and theories from disciplines such as economics, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and history. This course introduces students to a variety of perspectives on organizations. When brought together these perspectives allow students to construct a multifaceted picture of the powerful socioeconomic-systems that shape modern society: enhancing their conceptualizations of responsible enterprise and developing their critical thinking skills.

The course follows the emergence of the modern media environment from the middle of the 19th century up to the 1940s. The thematic focus is on the interwoven development of various media, nations, and nationalisms. For example, telegraphy's infrastructures, the changes in the late 19th century press, how the newspaper staff were transformed from litterateurs to journalists, advertising and consumption in mass society, how sound media such as the radio, the telephone and the phonograph were developed from public to private listening, early film and media, and propaganda during the two world wars are examined.