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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 course provides students with the advanced understanding of the main challenges associated with the development of new products. More specifically, at the end of the course students are able to: design a new product development process; analyze the competitive advantage of a new idea; assess a new product idea’s value; make decision on whether or not a new product idea should/should not be launched in the market.

The course content is divided into five parts:

1) The new product development process. New product development as a process. The relationship between Research and Development.

2) Identification of opportunities. Ideas generation. Need analysis and classification.

3) Turn the consumer insight into a product. Preference analysis and concept development.

4) Concept testing and sales forecasting. Evaluating the market potential

5) New product Launch. Launching strategies, new product adoption and diffusion

This course communicates the key concepts in modern corporate finance in explaining how corporations make financial decisions, focusing on investment decision (decision to purchase real assets) and financing decision (decision on how to finance this investment). Corporations make these decisions towards fulfilling the financial goal of the corporation, which is maximizing shareholder value. This course therefore covers some computation techniques to value corporations and investments. This course also considers how these financial decisions could be affected by the market, social, and legal environments. Additionally, the course covers the topics of mergers and sustainable corporate finance.

Building on USSCPOL23, this course offers a deeper understanding of the sub-discipline of International Relations, focusing on its main concepts, issues, theories, and approaches. The question that guides the course is: At a time of significant change and instability, what theoretical approaches to the study of international relations are helpful toward understanding current problems of global and regional order? In this course, the focus is on understanding the changing world order. Examine the problem of order through various theoretical lenses, from realism and liberalism to constructivism, Marxism, and beyond. Be challenged to employ these tools toward thinking about how global and regional structures, which help shape how states cooperate and compete, might be reimagined for a changing world. At least one of the following course modules must be completed: [UCSSCPOL23] International Relations: dimensions of world politics or [UCSSCPOL25] Political Economy of the Global South

This course provides students with an overview of the origins, languages, literatures, and mythologies of the Celts from prehistoric to medieval times. This course begins with a survey of the main periods of Celtic archaeology and then considers how the Celts were portrayed by Classical Greek and Roman authors, our only written sources for the history of ancient Celtic Europe. Following this, English translations of legal and historical texts composed in Ireland from the seventh century onwards are drawn upon to build up a picture of life in the medieval Celtic world, considering topics such as the structure of early Irish society and the role of women. In the second half of the course, students are introduced to the main genres of early Irish literature. This rich tradition will complement insights gained in the first half of the course. Students will focus on reading texts within the contemporary medieval context and will become familiar with the diversity of the early Irish literary tradition. The course also addresses recent scholarship in relation to the interpretation of the relevant literature.
 

This course explores various theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of language as a resource for social actors and communities, and as a resource to produce anthropological knowledge. The course analyzes how language emerges in the interactions between people and how it reflects and creates society and culture.  

Understanding these dynamics, however, requires more than just an impressionistic, commonsensical understanding of how language works. For example, what is important about language is not so much the literal meaning of words, but the connotation of accents, the channels through which people choose to communicate, and the silences and elisions. This course develops skills that enable one to investigate these dynamics in a sophisticated manner, yet one that remains solidly grounded in social and cultural theory.  

This course introduces and discusses recent theories and studies on the linguistic information processing process from the perspectives of cognitive psychology, linguistics, and artificial intelligence. Students examine the characteristics of language information processing, acquiring effective neuroscience-based learning principles to overcome difficulties in foreign language acquisition, and the specific features of Korean language processing. 

Topics include Introduction to language, Speech production and comprehension, Word processing, Semantic processing, Sentence processing, Discourse/dialogue, Language development in infancy and early childhood, Bilingual language processing, Aphasia, Korean language processing: lexical processing, sentence processing, discourse. 

This course covers the constitutional law and how the government has been structured and operates under a written constitution in Taiwan. This course aims to guide students through the intricacies of constitutional law using accessible language and engaging examples. The course will cover as many articles of the constitution as possible, with in-depth analysis of important Supreme Court interpretations, aiming to combine the strengths of both the continental and common law systems, ensuring both breadth and depth.

This course gives a general introduction to water resources, how these are linked the hydrological processes, and how engineering plays a role in the management of water resources. It covers the hydrologic cycle of water as a whole and its specific components including: geophysical flows of water throughout the environment, dynamics of precipitation formations, transformations into runoff, reservoir and lake dynamics, stream flow discharge, surface runoff assessment, calculation of peak flows, the hydrograph theory, ground water flows, aquifers dynamics, concept of water quality and water treatment methods and units. The topics mentioned will be covered in both qualitative and quantitative aspects. Use will be made of essential concepts of energy, mass and momentum conservation. 

This course provides a technical overview of decision making and action control in robotics with an emphasis on the development of generalist robots. The course covers:  

(1) fundamental robot kinematics that discusses geometric relationships between the robot’s body and the end effector;  

(2) classical control and planning, that provides a theoretical basis, and  

(3) state-of-the-art robot learning that facilitates adaptive and continual learning of robot tasks.

Course Prerequisites: Machine learning; linear algebra; probability; computer vision; linux system; python programming, and pytorch programming.

This course introduces key movements and individuals as well as theoretical ideas in architectural history between the World War periods and the present time diachronically and synchronically. The course covers important architects, cases, and regional issues around the world.