English

This course combines foundational machine learning concepts with hands-on competitive challenges, preparing students to become effective data scientists in collaborative international environments. The class will be assigned to mixed teams of international and domestic students, tackling real-world datasets through Kaggle-style competitions. 

The course examines generative artificial intelligence and its impact on culture, education, and society. Topics include AI-generated media, creativity and authorship, bias and inequality, ethics, work, politics, and the changing role of AI in everyday life.

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, held in English, offers an extremely practical introduction to the essential techniques needed to teach English in a primary school context. The course looks at objectives and the relevant methodology providing many practical examples, with particular reference to skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing, lexical and structural development. Students examine practical play-based activities that can help children learn and reinforce new language, and look at approaches such as the use of storytelling, songs and chants, nursery rhymes, "arts and crafts" and drama.

Above all, the course provides a series of activities that teachers can directly apply in the classroom - enjoyable basic activities to help teachers with their first steps in their new career. Course activities include: workshop and presentation of teaching activities followed by discussion/analysis of various practical activities.

This course examines the diversity in land plants from both phylogenetic and functional trait perspectives, exploring key steps in the evolution of plants and how they interact with their environment. It provides a framework of plant life focusing on the ecologically, economically and culturally important plants of Aotearoa New Zealand.

This course provides an introduction to the principles and concepts of behavioral ecology, and to the application of these to case studies in conservation biology in New Zealand.

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 covers topics on currency, liquidity, and balance of payment crises as well as international financial contagion. Issues pertaining to monetary/financial, exchange rate, in connection with the antecedents and aftermath of crises are studied at both the theoretical and empirical level. It is an advanced course that builds on the standard intertemporal small open economy models with frictions such as imperfect capital markets, intertemporal distortions, and non-tradable goods and applies these theoretical tools to study in detail specific topics inspired by recent events such as financial crises, the global role of the dollar, and the economic effects of the covid virus.

The course examines the opportunities and challenges of managing businesses in a global marketplace. Topics include international business environments, cross-cultural management, global strategy, market entry, strategic alliances, international trade, global marketing, operations, and human resource management. Students apply analytical frameworks to evaluate international markets, competitive strategies, and organizational challenges.

This is an applied professional practice and work relationship course that permits students studying any aspects of the arts to apply their disciplinary knowledge and skills to fulfill a brief set by an external client. Students may opt to complete design-based tasks, a creative composition (written, audio-visual, music), historical or archival research or use language and cultural competence skills in a range of communication scenarios.

This course aims to provide students with foundational knowledge in artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on the latest advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), to help them understand core concepts and application scenarios of AI technology.

This course examines our understanding of human psychological development, focusing on selected issues and empirical traditions within the discipline of developmental psychology. Topics include sense of identity, conceptual development, children's thinking, social cognition, moral reasoning and behavior, and the role of genetic and environmental influences on development. It will also consider applications of developmental research and theory in developmental psychopathology and in educational contexts, as well as exploring children's experience of art, literature and drama.