English

This course aims to deepen students' understanding of the United States by exploring diverse topics through an interdisciplinary approach.

The topics and materials covered in class includes historical events; traditional concepts rooted in the nation's founding ideals; a wide range of famous and lesser-known works of American literature, and even the lyrics of 1930s blues. All of these are relevant to contemporary America. Furthermore, this course encourages students to develop an interest in and critically explore racial issues in the United States, particularly in the ongoing era of the Black Lives Matter movement.

 

This course provides a detailed analysis of some of the key themes and issues in the UK's political system. It provides an overview of the relationship between the different aspects of the political system and shows how these have evolved in the last twenty years. It focuses on both the formal institutions of Parliament and the non-elected actors who influence the UK's political process.

This course provides an overview of the history of international relations from the Napoleonic Wars to the eve of World War I. The main objective of this course is to assist students in understanding the key elements of diplomatic history necessary to study contemporary world politics. The course also prepares students for upper-level courses in the Political Science and International Relations department. 

The course presents the conceptual and methodological elements that characterize the ethnopsychological approach to clinical psychology. Students are guided in the analysis of some content, applied research and some conceptualizations aimed at acquiring those methodological competencies designed to intervene in clinical situations. The lectures are interactive and require active participation on the part of the students. Experts with long-lasting experience in clinical services are involved in order to show certain practices regarding the course content. The course provides basic knowledge of ethnopsychology and the development of the following competencies: Competence to recognize and manage cultural differences; competence to recognize and manage one's own cognitive filters; competence to identify methodological practices regarding an ethnopsychological intervention; cultural competencies in Health Service.

This course examines the specific immune system at the molecular level, dealing with the structure and function of the soluble and cell surface proteins involved, and to study the roles of the various cell types which participate in the immune response. This course covers a range of topics in molecular and cellular immunology, including the immune response and acquired immunity; antibody structure and function; antibody diversity and clonal selection; genetics of immunoglobulin expression; the complement system; antibody techniques; monoclonal antibodies; hypersensitivity reactions (allergies); the activity of T cells; major histocompatibility complexes, their role in transplant rejection and non-self recognition; HIV and AIDS.

This course offers students the tools to come to an informed view about different models of development, whether there are better or worse ways of intervening in poorer countries, or whether it may be better to do nothing at all. The course considers a series of issues including economic takeoff in Pacific-Asia, ideas of dependency, neo-liberal theories of development, including the rise of the governance agenda, post-development, and the politics of international aid. Students learn to link theory and practice and to show the relevance of past debates to contemporary issues.

This course is a non-academic creative writing course intended to foster student creativity through the practice of creative expression in written English. Topics include creative nonfiction, poetry, and fiction. Students analyze readings from a writer's perspective to heighten awareness of features common to successful creative writing. Students adapt these features to their own work as appropriate, using a process approach that encourages thoughtful peer review and revision for personal expression.  

The goals of this class are to articulate eloquently in English about creative texts, write in multiple genres that demonstrate an engagement with course readings and discussions, and enhance creativity and critical thinking by synthesizing feedback into one's own work. 

The course focuses on integrative human physiology, which means how the internal organ systems interact to maintain homeostasis. This includes the structure of the organ systems (anatomy, histology) and their function and regulation (physiology). The course includes the following organs and organ systems: the heart, the circulatory system and the blood, the kidneys and the urinary tract, the respiratory system, the digestive tract and accessory organs, endocrine organs and the reproductive organs. The structure, function and regulation of the musculature is also studied. Integrated knowledge of the autonomic nervous system and energy metabolism are also included. The organ systems in question are studied from the cellular to systemic level. Major emphasis is placed on the understanding of homeostatic regulation. The course concerns how homeostasis is maintained at rest and under different conditions such as physical activity and potentially homeostasis imbalance changes in the surroundings. In order to explain physiological functions, the required anatomy and histology is studied in parallel with physiology.  Course requires 60 credits and is graded Pass or Fail.
 

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 focuses on the following topics:

1. Market failures in health insurance: a) Adverse selection b) Moral hazard c) Other inefficiencies
2. Economic rationales for government intervention and redistribution
3. Insurance design and payment systems
4. Regulatory intervention and the public/private mix in health insurance
5. Comparative social insurance markets

At the end of the module, students: have knowledge of law and economics theories applied to insurance and social insurance markets and have insights on national, international, and comparative case studies; know how to utilize quantitative and qualitative information to analyze the impact of regulatory instruments on the efficiency of insurance and social insurance markets design, and critically develop proposals for optimal policy design.

This course provides students with a further grounding in the important statistical and probabilistic techniques and models relevant to the non-life insurance industry.