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The course familiarizes students with the Devanagari script and sounds. Students learn the structured but user-friendly content for basic communication in the Hindi language. For this course, extensive use of audio-visuals is made and the approach is primarily interactive. 

This course explores transitions that occur in children's and adolescents' lives, including "vertical transitions," described as "developmental and predictable" and including moving on from one setting to another at the appropriate stage in education/life and "horizontal transition," described as the movement between activities during the course of a normal day. The course explores transitions that result from migration, changes in the family structure, and bereavement.

This is a special studies course with projects arranged between the student and faculty member. The specific topics of study vary each term and are described on a special study project form for each student. The number of units varies with the student's project, contact hours, and method of assessment, as defined on the student's special study project form.

Marketing Management focuses on the development of a better understanding of core marketing issues through the analysis of real-life marketing problems and marketing decision-making in an international context. The course adopts two formats: case study analysis and a marketing research project. In the case study format, emphasis is put on contemporary and international issues within a diverse scale of industries that focus on strategic as well as tactical marketing problems. Although conceptual material is provided and used as an instrument for analysis, emphasis is put on a critical and problem-solving approach of real-life cases. Through a marketing research project, students are challenged to delve into a real managerial issue and utilize skills that are developed within the course. To understand how to address this problem, students are tasked to design and implement full-scale marketing research and provide a report with proposed solutions back to the company. The sessions build upon PBL-guided case study sessions, while in-class exercises and assignments help build students’ marketing research skills. Lectures support the elaboration of the research project. International marketing and research cases are discussed in tutorial group meetings. The necessary knowledge for these discussions can be found in a basic textbook on marketing management, as well as a book on how to conduct marketing research. The latter is also necessary for successfully conducting a real-life marketing research project. Additional information on how to conduct marketing research comes from lectures. Basic managerial, marketing, and statistical knowledge is a prerequisite for attending this course.

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrolment is by permission of the instructor. This course focuses on advanced and comprehensive knowledge of the main, up-to-date econometric methods for the analysis of economic and financial time series data. In terms of inference techniques, emphasis is given to up-to-date bootstrap methods. The course discusses how to analyze the application of advanced econometric models to economic time series data, and how to implement and make use of proper (asymptotic and bootstrap) inference methods in dynamic environments. The course is divided into two parts: part I introduces stylized facts of financial time series and conditional volatility models including estimation, inference, and applications; and part II discusses asymptotic and Bootstrap inference in time series.

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrolment is by permission of the instructor. At the end of the course, students know basic numerical methods for evolutive ordinary and partial differential problems, together with their main theoretical and computational properties. In particular, students are able to analyze the properties of numerical methods; constructively examine corresponding computational results; advance their scientific computing education in higher level courses; and employ the acquired numerical skills in a variety of application areas. The two main topics covered are: 1) numerical solution of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs): Initial Value Problems; and 2) numerical solution of ODEs: Boundary Value Problems.

This course introduces the politics and international relations in Korea, including some of the major developments in Korea’s contemporary history. It covers the complicated ways in which domestic politics, national division, and international relations intersect with each other. The course also provides opportunities to critically discuss contemporary political issues so that students may identify major political forces affecting them and their implications for Korea and their neighbors. The course aims to equip students with political knowledge and intellectual tools with which they can better understand the politics and international relations in Korea and Northeast Asia in the past and the future. 

This course examines the development of modern physical optics, with particular attention to the physical properties and applications of light in the advanced undergraduate level. It covers wave theory of electromagnetic radiations and light; geometric optics; the propagation and superposition of light waves; interference, diffraction and coherence of light; fourier optics; and some topics of modern optics.

This course offers an introduction to the major geographical and historical dynamics that structure (and divide) the Middle East region; the national, ethnic, and religious identities that divide the region; as well as the major transnational movements shaping the region in the contemporary era (anti-imperialism, “Arab nationalism,” political Islam, along with relevant concepts and terminology). It characterizes the evolving and shifting roles of key external actors (United Nations, United States, Russia, China, European states, European Union) All of this is based on the use of open sources, including those from American and European think tanks (though not exclusively).