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The course explores principles and practices of innovation and entrepreneurship in business environments. Students learn how to identify opportunities, apply innovation methodologies, develop solutions to real-world challenges, and create business models through design thinking, market research, prototyping, and user validation. The course also examines corporate innovation, startup development, and strategies for managing and implementing organizational change.  

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. In this course, students acquire deep knowledge of British cultural, political, philosophical, socio-economic history. They develop high ability to elaborate on texts and their cultural contexts, favoring critical thought. The course analyzes diverse forms of British Orientalism(s) in literature, visual art, and cultural theories, with specific reference to late 19th century and 20th century. Lessons investigate Orientalism as part of the cultural history of England, connected to colonialism and imperialism, but also to (albeit ambiguous) processes of intercultural exchanges. The course takes into consideration diverse literary genres where the notions of cultural difference and diversity, racism, and sexism intertwine with issues connected to gender, 'race', social positioning, and identity. It is introduced by lessons on cultural, postcolonial and intercultural studies.

This course outlines different approaches to the study of identity, ethnicity and nationalism in global politics. It focuses on the role which nationalism and religion play in International Relations (IR): first, it introduces theories of nations and nationalism before examining whether the nation is "real" or "imagined". Second, the class critically interrogates the relationship between religion and nationalism with reference to empirical case studies.
 

This course investigates human (in)security by examining the state’s duty to its citizens, analyzing both the scope of services a government provides and its capacity to reach its people. It also examines the risks to individuals due to the lack of services and/or the limited coverage of existing services. Utilizing examples across healthcare, law enforcement, and education, this course investigates how distinct state governance models approach public issues and how these decisions shape citizens' lives.

This course explores the morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics of the grammatical category of gender. It examines what kids of gender systems exist, how gender is morphologically manifested on different grammatical categories, what the relation between gender and agreement is, how gender is interpreted and how this all varies across different languages. The class compares English with languages with different gender systems, such as German, Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian, or those of Bantu languages, in order to gain a comprehensive overview of its crosslinguistic variation.

This course develops the ability to design and write creative narratives for games and interactive media. From worldbuilding to generating story development documents, player-character profiles, and interactive dialogue scripts, this course provides students with knowledge and skills central to the discipline. It will also pose critical questions that emerge around player agency and narrative experience, as well as ethical concerns around diversity in representation. 

This course focuses on understanding the performance of a country’s economy as a whole: what causes it to grow, and why the pace of economic activity varies over time. Students will understand the growth and cyclicality of macroeconomic activity; and the role of firms, financial system and government in driving the economy.

This seminar provides an in-depth exploration of urbanization trends and the complex challenges facing cities in the MENA/Arab region. A key focus of this seminar is on the role of urban sports in public spaces, examined through a range of case studies from different Arab cities. The seminar highlights both the challenges and innovative approaches related to the integration of urban sports into public spaces, addressing issues of design, accessibility, governance, and social inclusion. The second part of the semester shifts the focus to another critical urban topic: waterfronts in Arabic cities. This part analyzes the relationship between the city and the waterfront and examines how waterfronts influence urban planning and urban development. In addition, the seminar explores different approaches to waterfront design through the analysis of case studies from various Arab cities, considering the social, spatial, and environmental dimensions. The seminar is complemented by a hands-on workshop in Alexandria, Egypt's second-largest city and the largest on the Mediterranean coast. The workshop offers participants the opportunity to analyze and co-design public spaces and waterfronts using urban sports as a conceptual and practical framework. 

This course investigates British literature from the mid-19th century onwards to consider its aim to look at the every-day, often mundane aspects of life and describe life 'as it really is’, engaging especially with questions on the representation of labor and social class in Britain. While much of the course literature is concerned with the period of industrialization in Britain, over the course of the seminar it moves on to the later 20th century to think about the relationship between fiction and late-stage capitalism. The texts in the seminar largely consist of prose fiction but also include plays and films.

This course provides participants with a toolbox of skills and methods that cover the entire data lifecycle. This includes approaches ranging from data collection (e.g., web crawling, experimental design), to analysis (data handling, statistical tests, regression models), and finally to visualization. Fundamental and applied questions of statistics are addressed, along with practical skills in programming languages, such as Java and R. The course content is supplemented and practiced through case studies and real-world data examples. In addition, the lectures are enriched by guest contributions from industry partners. By the end of the course, participants are able to independently carry out data-driven projects-from conception to the interpretation and presentation of insights. The aim is to provide a fundamental understanding of data-driven projects and questions, as well as practical skills and methods. Among other things, the following aspects are covered: surveys and experiments: design, implementation, evaluation; web Crawling 101: making online data usable; data visualization, filtering and clustering data, data cleaning and preprocessing, Machine Learning 101, statistical tests and linear regression models.