English

In the high and late middle ages, monarchs and urban governments across Europe enacted laws dictating what people could wear, what hairstyles they could have, what they could eat, what types of hawks they could hunt with, as well as creating a range of other restrictions on visual display. This course examines why. What was the purpose of these ‘sumptuary’ laws (as historians have named them)? What conditions led to their enactment? How did they differ across time and space? What types of people were regulated and who was allowed to dress as they pleased? Through weekly seminars, students interrogate these questions of the original sources and select a subset of sumptuary law to examine in their essay.

This course provides undergraduate students with basic knowledge of how to conduct empirical research on international relations (IR). The course is organized into two sections. The first section introduces academic writing skills, instructing on how to formulate research questions; implement literature reviews, and prepare an appropriate research design. Given the emerging challenges of artificial intelligence (AI), the class also discusses how to use and avoid the misuse of AI in academic writing. The second section illustrates how to use a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, including surveys and interviews.  

This course introduces the fundamental concepts from mechanical engineering that facilitates understanding and quantitative analysis of renewable energy systems. This includes concepts from the fields of structural mechanics, dynamics of mechanical systems, and fluid statics/dynamics. The course provides a grounding in key physical concepts and analytical methods to enable understanding of and quantitative analysis of renewable energy systems. Lecture material will cover: structural mechanics; Newtonian Dynamics; and fluid statics and dynamics. These are presented within the context of and applied to renewable energy systems

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 course focuses on advanced methods and models to predict the vulnerability of a water body to natural and anthropic pressures and evaluate the risk of water scarcity or poor quality under current and future conditions. In particular, the course addresses the following main contents: analytical and numerical models of flow and contaminant transport, data-driven and risk assessment methods, and laws of similarity for model tests in hydraulics. It is divided into two modules: 

Module 1: 

• Analytical and numerical modeling of flow processes in natural domains
• Analytical and numerical modeling of transport processes
• Risk and sensitivity analysis
• Monitoring and data-driven methods for the analysis of water bodies
• Introduction to geostatistics

Module 2: 

• Dimensionless numbers and laws of similarity for model tests in hydraulics
• Hydraulic measurements

This course explores the origins and development of the Heavy Metal genre, from its beginnings in classic and hard rock through to contemporary forms. The aesthetics of the genre are also discussed, and some focus is given to some of the more prominent movements within the genre, such as the NWoBHM (new wave of British heavy metal), death metal, and black metal.

The long-run economic development of countries, as well as inequality within countries are the major topics of this course. The course reviews the major conceptual approaches to economic development and applies those to the actual experience of countries. In this way, the global variety of development experiences becomes a central topic of the course, addressing topics such as investment, trade, building institutions, population dynamics, education, health, and migration. The material that we cover suggests that inequality of the distribution of income resulting from differences across the population in terms of access to education, health services, or infrastructure can be a major obstacle to economic development. Throughout the course, public policy options for stimulating development are made central, especially in the assignment that students carry out.  Prerequisite SSC1027 Principles of Economics. Knowledge of basic quantitative concepts such as reading and working with graphs and simple equations is also a prerequisite

This course covers the process of bioinformatics data analysis and the interpretation of the results in a biological context. The following topics will be addressed in the course: command line usage; programming/scripting; current bioinformatics data analysis tools; and automated analysis pipelines. The first part of the course covers command line usage (linux), bioinformatics script programming (python), as well as the theory and tools required to analyze data produced by current sequencing technologies and interpret the results. Topics include genome assembly, sequence annotation, gene expression, biological networks, and comparative genomics. During the second part of the course, students - in teams - apply their knowledge in a small research project. Given a specific biological question and the required data, the goal is to build a data analysis pipeline and describe the biological interpretation. BIF20306 Introduction to Bioinformatics or SSB34306 Computational Biology and BIF21806 Practical Computing for Biologists or INF2306 Programming in Python required.

This course provides students with a solid understanding of the key aspects in energy metabolism, and the effects of nutrients on (muscle) metabolism during exercise of different types. The course requires prior knowledge on some basic biochemical concepts (e.g. the structure and function of macromolecules, common forms of chemical reactions, basic cell structure, and metabolism of macromolecules). The course builds around a practical case study. With a group of students, develop a cohesive and evidence-based recommendation regarding nutrition and exercise for a client sports team. The first part of the course provides a theoretical foundation on the basics of exercise physiology and biochemistry. In the form of tutorial groups, discuss the physiology of muscles, the metabolism of macronutrients, the hormonal regulation of metabolism, the biochemical and physiological role of macro- and micronutrients in relation to exercise and fatigue, and adaptations of the body to endurance, and resistance training. You are expected to conduct a further search of the literature, as the theoretical foundation covers only part of the concepts important for developing a cohesive recommendation regarding nutrition and exercise. Prerequisite SCI2035 Biochemistry. Recommended SCI2009 Human Physiology and/or, SCI2037 Cell Biology.

This course introduces students to a range of 21st Century literature written in English with a focus on crisis in the contemporary moment. It equips students with critical ideas and theoretical concepts that will help them to understand the literature of their own time. Students consider examples of a range of genres: poetry, creative non-fiction, the essay, and fiction. Students are encouraged to read texts in a number of contexts and will consider writers’ responses to, for instance: displacement, environmental change, geopolitical conflict, austerity, Black Lives Matter, the contemporary archive, desire and the overarching issue of crisis. They also consider a range of aesthetic innovations, for example: the turn to creative non-fiction, the re-emergence of the political essay, the development of the prose poem. Overall, the course considers how writers are responding to crises of the present period and how, through their writing, they model modes of agency.

Study the fundamentals of real analysis, including Axioms of the real numbers, supremum and infimum; Countable sets; Sequences and series; Open and closed sets, compactness; Limits, continuity, differentiability; Sequences and series of functions, uniform convergence, power series; Integration. Please note that lectures alternate during the week so that students can take any of MAM2012S, MAM2013S and MAM2014S concurrently.