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In this course, students critically explore the scientific base of the degrowth paradigm. Is “green” growth indeed impossible, and how would we know? How is growth tied to global production-consumption systems and their destructive impacts? How does the economic growth paradigm influence not only countries and organizations but also individuals who strive for performance maximization and more productive and marketable uses of their time? Through the lens of three different academic perspectives, students explore and discuss what “de-growing” economic systems, policies, and individual behaviors could look like.

This course covers elasticity, structural analysis, energy and matrix methods, fatigue, vibration, airworthiness and aeroelasticity. It provides general information of aircraft structures and materials, and transfer of external aerodynamic loads into structural internal forces. The focus is to deliver the fundamental knowledge for stresses, deflection, and buckling analysis of these structural components under various static loading conditions including torsion, bending and shear. Lectures emphasize the fundamentals of structural mechanics and analytical approaches for analysis of aircraft structures. Students learn to derive the theory of linear elasticity and apply it to analyze the components subjected to typical aircraft loading conditions and design requirements. Tutorials provide a set of lessons and exercises teaching the concepts and methodology in analysis of aircraft structures. The students learn and understand the procedure of aircraft structural analysis from following tutorial problem solving exercises with group discussions.

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. Using the perspective of political science, this course offers an understanding to the political economy of money and finance. Understanding, and questioning, the evolution of the global monetary and financial order and its democratic accountability is also an integral part of the course. Students learn to: 1. understand the political drivers of globalization and of global monetary and financial orders over time; 2. familiarize with the theoretical debates and methodologies used to measure and assess global economic and financial integration; 3. identify the key actors and institutions that pinpoint the contemporary monetary and financial order as well as its distributional consequences; 4. understand why policy space is reduced for many countries, especially developing and emerging market countries; 5. develop the analytical tools to reflect about alternative institutional and policy arrangements.

The course provides students with the political analysis of the global monetary and financial order, its historical evolution and contemporary challenges such as those associated with climate change and the use of new technologies. The first part of the course presents the main theoretical approaches, themes, and horizontal questions that characterize the analyses relating to the monetary and financial order. The second part of the course deals with specific themes linked to the current political challenges that the monetary order faces.

This course offers an in-depth exploration of human sensibilities, tastes, and desires through an interdisciplinary lens, incorporating readings from cultural studies, anthropology, history, literature, journalism, and critical theory. In its earlier iterations, the course focused primarily on the concept of " beauty," not merely as an object but as a site for examining the politics surrounding its definitions and manifestations. In this revised version, the course integrates a critical analysis of new media's role and its profound impact on human conditions and social life. We live in an age saturated with media that function as powerful tools for producing, disseminating, and consuming the information, images, and ideas that shape both the tangible and intangible aspects of culture. The emergence of new media has transformed how we connect with one another, communicate, and interact as members of society. The course begins by delving into a recent viral phenomenon: the intersection of fandom culture and K-democracy, offering a compelling case study on how media reshapes collective identity and social activism. The course is divided into four sections: Section 1 Fandom Culture and K-democracy, Section 2 The Girl and Beauty: Conformity, Recalcitrance, and Negotiation, Section 3 Ethnic Markers and Aesthetic Standards, and Section 4 Back to K-culture and Politics of Beauty.

This course presents a broad picture of political and cultural situation, including the Russo-Chinese contacts in the 17th-19th centuries. It covers the Kievan Rus, the period of division, culture of the period of Mongol dependency, culture of independent Moscow state; the beginning of secular culture in the 17th century; reforms of Peter I, Westernization of Russian culture in the 18th century; the golden age of aristocratic culture at the end of the 18th century; new trends and schools in Russian culture at the beginning of the 20th century.

This is a seminar course designed to cover the common law trial systems through providing the students opportunities of analyzing cases, in-class discussions, and/or mock trial practices, and facilitation for the students to learn the main legal theories of litigation and trial practices of the common law system.

Through taking this course, the students are expected to learn legal terminologies, enhance the ability of comprehending legal English, and understand the common law trial proceedings in a systematic way. The students will be trained to use English as a tool to understand the law and to be capable of analyzing and resolving legal problems.

The first portion of this course focuses on comprehending ideas presented by Thom Hartmann, the key author that has helped influence the discussion of key environmental and social issues of the latter 20th century and early 21st century (influencing such people as celebrity Leonardo DiCaprio and politician Bernie Sanders). 

In this process, we examine the harmful aspects of city-state culture, such as competition, domination, and excess, as well as positive tribal values such as being part of nature, cooperation, care, and sharing. Students explore knowledge and skills needed to enhance their understanding of the interconnectedness of all living things, promote environmental awareness, and create a more sustainable future. 

The second half of the semester involves practical “hands-on” discovery as students choose their own issue to research, to discover what the author may have missed and even how the world has or hasn’t changed since the author wrote his book. 

This seminar examines American cities over the past 150 years through major theoretical traditions and empirical themes. It explores housing markets, racial segregation, immigration, suburbanization, gentrification, policing, gender, finance, education, and urban politics. Throughout, it maintains a comparative lens, juxtaposing American patterns with European experiences. The course has two goals. First, to familiarize students with major theoretical frameworks in urban sociology, building a conceptual toolkit for analyzing cities. Second, to develop critical analytical skills through engagement with classic texts and contemporary research.

This course introduces key concepts and analytical tools for understanding science and technology as social enterprises. Students examine classical philosophical debates—such as the demarcation problem—and analyze how social systems, institutional norms, and cultural contexts shape the work of scientists and engineers.  

The course explores motivations and incentives that drive knowledge production, as well as the collaborative and competitive structures that organize research. Building on this foundation, the course asks practical questions about how to promote science and technology through effective governance, economic analysis, and policy design.  

A distinctive feature of this course is its applied project structure. Students take on two roles over the semester: first, acting as a funding agency by drafting Requests for Proposals (RFPs) on pressing science policy issues; second, acting as policy researchers by responding to a peer’s RFP with a complete policy study.  

This process mirrors real-world science policy cycles, from setting priorities to producing actionable recommendations, and will push students to think both strategically and analytically. By the end of the course, students will have a critical understanding of how science and technology are constructed, organized, and sustained, as well as hands-on experience in research design, policy analysis, and communication skills directly transferable to real-world science policy work. 

The course is designed to introduce students to the latest developments in behavioral finance and to broaden their understanding of modern finance. Behavioral finance introduces psychological insights and more realistic assumptions to guide and advance the theory of financial markets. We will examine how behavioral finance complements traditional paradigms and study trading behavior, asset price dynamics, and corporate financial decisions in a behavioral context.