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This course examines how Māori, Pacific and Indigenous communities respond, adapt and mitigate the challenges presented by climate change drawing on indigenous theoretical approaches and relationships with land, oceans, culture, resources, development and political frameworks within settler-colonial states and Pacific nations and others.

The course focuses on the structure and dynamics of a variety of networks (e.g., the World Wide Web, online social networks, collaboration networks). It uncovers the network foundations of innovation, information diffusion, cultural fads, financial crises, and viral marketing. Special emphasis is placed on the hub-dominated "scale-free"" networks and the "small-world" networks showing the "six degree of separation" phenomenon. The course combines current research on social networks with contributions from relevant organizational and sociological literature.

This course guides students through the “exciting nightmare” of taking an idea or a technology to market, growing the venture, and securing a successful exit. Although grounded in rigorous theory, the focus of the course is highly practical and class participation is actively encouraged. No prior knowledge of the subject is required but students should be interested in the creation of wealth and the commercialization of technology. 

This course introduces students to the core ideas and fundamental concepts behind machine learning. Students learn different machine learning problems and the algorithms that exist to address them. They formulate machine learning problems and machine learning pipelines, apply suitable algorithms to tackle different machine learning tasks, implement machine learning algorithms to solve supervised learning problems, and assess appropriate methodologies to evaluate machine learning algorithms.

This course offers a systematic review of international migration and refugee movements to, through, and from the Middle East and North Africa over the last decade. It addresses their trends, causes, and consequences for individuals and societies, and stresses the universality of international mobility determinants, as well as the specificity of the context in which they operate in the region.

This course is mainly based on the organizational behavior perspective in a global context. It focuses helping one build their own global mindset; enhance their understanding of issues in global management, and develop their own global skills. Topics to be covered in the course include individual-level inputs, outputs and processes (IOPs) such as demographic diversity, personality and values, attitudes and behaviors, emotions and moods, perception and Individual decision making, and motivations, as well as group-level and organizational level IOPs in the global context. The focus will be on leading and managing people in a global setting, and issues such as strategy, trade, finance, etc. will not be covered. 
 

This course examines various concepts related to software, system and network security. It covers a range of topics including attacks on privacy and attack surface, static and dynamic analysis of malware, hardware security (trusted computing base, secure boot, and attestation), network security and some hot topics in cryptography including elliptic curve, blockchain and bitcoin.

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. The topics for this course differ each term. In spring 2024, the course had special emphasis on black women writers. Black Britain is a diaspora space (Avtar Brah): its literature and cultural productions are not only concerned with displaying experiences of insertion and adaptation within British society, but also with exploring and expanding the borders of a multi-layered identity that implies, even in its situatedness, transnational and transcultural routes. The course focuses on the literary and artistic production of some black British women writers from the second half of the 20th century up to the present. On one side, complicating the use of the lens of “migration” to read this production, the course deals with the question of being both black in Britain and black and British; on the other side, by taking an intersectional approach, blackness will be analysed not as singular and homogenous, but as crossed by heterogeneous, and at time opposing, movements – and especially in a constant dialogue with a series of other categories such as gender, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, education, equity, oppression, and violence (both “external” and “internal”). The course provides in-depth knowledge of English women's literature, using practical methodologies for the analysis and the interpretation of the literary text.

This course introduces the theoretical and practical aspects of sport and exercise coaching. Through active participation in lectures and movement laboratories, students develop a basic understanding of training and performance, with reference to a variety of groups. Students also learn how to evaluate and improve their own coaching performance by applying reflective and analytical skills. Topics examined in this course include coaching pedagogy, training principles, session planning, basic concepts of sports science, and ethical issues. 

This course is focused on recent developments in Nutrition Behavior Research including the physiological and psychological determinants of food choice and eating behavior. The course includes lectures, group assignments, and a computer practical. Prerequisites course in Nutrition Behavior.