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This course explores the turbulent development of the United States from its inception in 1776 with the Declaration of Independence through to its ascendance as an industrial and imperial world power in 1896. Students explore the history of this young nation from the writing of the Constitution, through contests over democracy, slavery and the Civil War, to an era of mass immigration and industrial capitalism. Throughout the module our studies will be guided by four themes which were central to the building of an American nation and which continue to divide opinion today: expansion, race, capitalism, and democracy. Students gain an understanding of different approaches to studying American history and demonstrate an ability to marshal historical knowledge to make a convincing case in favor of their own critical interpretation of the past.

The primary objective of this course is to introduce students to the main theories and contemporary debates regarding globalization processes. The course is interdisciplinary and consists of sessions hosted by different members of the institute, providing perspectives on the intersection of global, regional, and transregional processes. These processes are set in a historical perspective, and students become familiarized with perspectives from different areas of the world.

This course offers a study of Numerical Methods (NM) to calculate approximate solutions of mathematical models. Topics include: floating point, errors, stability, and algorithms; solution of linear systems of equations; numerical solution of equations and systems of nonlinear equations; interpolation and approximation of functions; least squares problems; numerical optimization; numerical integration; numerical differentiation; fast Fourier transform. 

This course introduces students to the distinct communication activities related to social marketing, including the practice of achieving societal change for the benefit of the greater social good through the integration of commercially inspired skills and tools with other approaches. Sustainability, diversity, health, and community development have all become global societal concerns. Social marketing communication is therefore a much-needed individual and organizational proficiency for popularizing these concerns in a credible manner and for inferring voluntary behavioral changes among specific target audiences. The course provides relevant theoretical insights within social marketing communication, cause-related marketing communication, and commercial marketing communication. It also develops expertise in employing analytical tools belonging to narrative and discourse studies for working with and developing social marketing communication materials across various media.

This course instils the principles of digital logic design and computer fundamentals. It provides a basis for students to understand what happens inside digital computers and how they communicate with the real world. It illustrates how both digital computers and complex medical instrumentation are built up from simple logic circuit elements. It relates logic and digital systems to the fundamentals of computer programming. Lastly, it provides the basic skills of programming in the ANSI C language and Matlab to convey a sense of the professionalism required of programmers in order to write reliable C code for safety-critical applications, such as medicine.

This course examines field techniques applied to metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary rocks, and rock deformation structures. 

This course develops an understanding of the reasons, the range, and the extent of business-government relations, and develops concrete skills in order to effectively manage these relations. Through an interactive approach, the course shows the empirical application to healthcare sector. More specifically, the course illustrates the relations between the industry of medical technologies and public administration as to the several strategies of market access as a concrete and interesting case of how managing business government relations becomes crucial to succeed from both sides. The case of the healthcare sector covers a relevant part of the whole course because it is highly representative of public-private interrelations and lends itself to be representative of different jurisdictions.

This course focuses on corporate entrepreneurship with a special emphasis on the role of venture capital and spin-offs, including managerial efforts aimed at the identification, development and exploitation of technical and organizational innovations and on effective new venture management in the context of large corporations. Students evaluate business models and appropriateness for development in a corporate setting. As an advanced course, students improve analytical, creative and communication skills. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

This course provides an overview of multilateralism and international organizations after World War II, examining collaboration between countries in areas such as peace and security, human rights, and monetary policy and economics. Students are introduced to the concept of world order and global governance through multilateralism and will examine the history, structures, and functions of international organizations including the role of major powers and other countries in the international arena.

This course uses general equilibrium models to study international trade, industrial structures, and structural change. The models are used to discuss and analyze the role of comparative advantage, trade, and productivity differences for industrial structures, resource allocation, and welfare. The course also provides a thorough introduction to game theory to analyze competition in markets with imperfect competition and strategic behavior between firms. It analyzes the impact of trade in markets with imperfect competition and how the gains from trade depend on market structures.