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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. By the end of the course, students know the brain processes underlying maturation, plasticity and aging and the associated changes in cognitive and emotional functions across the life span. The course is designed to provide advanced knowledge of the neural basis and functional mechanisms of human behavior, affective and cognitive processes and their alteration in patients with neurological and psychiatric disorders, drawing on both theoretical and methodological contributions of current literature, and integrating different methodological approaches, with practical examples in the areas of brain health, well-being and social neuroscience. The course involves 2 modules, which include: Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience (physiological measures, brain stimulation, functional imaging and neuropsychological approach); Brain maturation; Processing emotional and social information: Theories of emotions, perceptions of emotions, fear conditioning and empathy; Healthy aging: changes in behavioral and neuroanatomical substrates.

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. Corporate Finance is an advanced course with a focus on valuation, covering the theoretical framework of corporate valuation issues and the tools to apply valuation models in practical situations. Topics covered include estimating cash flows, the firm’s opportunity cost of capital, the role of capital structure, and relative valuation. At the end of the course, students are expected to know and understand, to a greater extent, national and international socio-economic processes and be able to independently draw conclusions based on the collected data; know in-depth mathematical, statistical and qualitative research methods used in research in economic sciences and management sciences; and have in-depth knowledge of their use in the processes of analysis and inference in the field of international business.

This course examines female scientists in history from antiquity to present day. It also discusses Nobel prizes won by women, Spanish women in science, and the current roles of women in science. 

This course covers the history of Korean and Hollywood cinema of the last 100 years by highlighting key trends, actors, directors and movies. It also outlines the history of world cinema to illustrate their impact and influence on Korean cinema and vice versa. By evaluating selected works that comprise each genre and a certain era, not only do we trace the history of Korean cinema but also Hollywood and its relationship to global popular culture and historical representation. 

This course offers a study of industrial robotics including morphology and robotic technologies, kinematic control, dynamic modeling, structure of the control system, programming of industrial robots, and industrial robotic applications.

This course covers the basics in geophysics, particularly the following three specific sub-areas: solid earth physics, fluid earth physics, and space physics. 

(1) Solid Earth Physics: Selected topics from seismology, volcanology, and plate tectonics for the purpose of learning basic knowledge on the structure and dynamics of the solid Earth. 

(2) Fluid Earth (atmosphere and ocean) Physics: Selected topics from meteorology, global warming, and physical climatology for the purpose of learning basic knowledge on climate change and related global environment problems. 

(3) Space Physics: Selected topics from solar physics, interplanetary physics, magnetospheric physics, and upper atmospheric physics for the purpose of learning basic knowledge on the electromagnetic environment of the Sun, the Earth, and planets.

This course examines how changes in early 20th century American domestic politics shaped the way American colonialism was imposed and practiced in the Philippines. The objective is to explore this topic from a comparative perspective (comparing the American and British empires) and looking at colonial state formation from the lens of the Gilded and Progressive Eras. The course also focuses on two powerful institutions – the police and the law. Finally, the course looks out the relationship between the Americans and Filipino elites and the larger society in terms of the former’s quest to gain the support of Filipinos.

This course surveys the history of modern Japan from the late‐Tokugawa period to the present. The course gives an understanding of major events and analyzes the modern history of Japan in transnational and comparative contexts. It explores a number of common themes of modern global history: nation building, colonialism, total war, and various transformations and social conflicts in the postwar period. Students think critically about diverse historical interpretations and controversies. The course includes a broad range of historical debates and viewpoints.

This course introduces the subjects of religion, ritual, and their secular critiques from an anthropological perspective. It studies the history of theory and concepts along a range of ethnographic topics (magic, science, religion and witchcraft; religion and politics, etc). Japan-related subjects will figure occasionally as discussion topics and in possible field trips to sites of religious significance in the Tokyo area. 

This course teaches students to consider the challenges posed by climate change, and the technologies and systems that are required to mitigate it. Students are introduced to key mitigation technologies and given the skills to perform basic economic analysis of the options. Lectures cover technoeconomic assessment and emissions estimation methods, possible future technology developments, and approaches to systems thinking, as well as the policy background on climate change.