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This course offers an introduction to management accounting. Topics include: income statement types; pricing decisions; budgets; job and process costing; activity-based costing and department costing.

Meat consumption has long been an emotionally charged issue, but contemporary debates over the ethics of eating animals are growing increasingly heated, fueled by the fact that modern livestock agriculture is held responsible for approximately twenty percent of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. This system's aim has always been to profitably produce an abundance of animal protein and it does so with tremendous efficiency; humans eat so many chickens today that chicken bones are considered one of the primary geological markers of the Anthropocene. Although this plenty provides essential protein for human diets, it also comes at an immense cost to environments, laborers, and the animals themselves and has resulted in the dramatic restructuring of lands, markets, and culinary practice worldwide. This course helps students understand how and why large-scale meat production became a central part of today's global food system. To do so, it combines approaches from environmental, economic, and culinary history and focuses primarily on the agricultural exchanges between Great Britain, Continental Europe, and the United States, both of which had outsized influence in shaping the contours of food production worldwide. The course develops a greater knowledge of the histories of agriculture, food commodity markets, and individual consumption in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The course provides future marketers with a fundamental understanding of digital marketing tools and techniques and helps them to become proficient in digital marketing practice. Practical assignment include the development of a digital marketing plan for a hypothetical company by formulating a digital marketing strategy, including the planning of campaigns.

Data analytics addresses methods for collecting, managing, interpreting, and visualizing large datasets. An understanding of basic statistical reasoning is an essential requirement across professional spaces such as an economist, as is the ability to manipulate data using specialized computer software. This course introduces rigorous statistical data analysis and provides training in the use of MATLAB, which is an excellent tool for understanding basic statistical calculations. The course lays out the perceptual and cognitive foundation of how practitioners understand and perceive stories, data graphics, and, ultimately, visual storytelling. In this London-based module, the students take advantage of studying in one of the world’s great financial capitals as well as top destinations for overseas students. The course introduces broad classes of techniques and tools for analyzing and visualizing data at scale while teaching the scientific process of transforming data into insights for making better business decisions. It emphasizes how to combine computation and visualization to perform effective analysis and storytelling. The course covers methods from each side and hybrid ones that combine the best of both worlds.

In this course, students study key aspects of the wider context in which their practice as Informatics professionals will occur.  Students develop individual capabilities that complement the technical capacities developed elsewhere in Informatics programs.  These include communication, reflection, reasoning, and analysis skills that consider the broader ethical and social implications of their work. The course is structured around professional and ethical behavior, and the wider context in which technologies are developed and deployed. 

This course provides a platform for new thinking about international legal and institutional arrangements in the world of an urgent need for responsibility for the future. It also presents what role the United States and Europe play in this process. It considers whether global governance - a dynamic process in which legal, political, and economical arrangements unleash interests, change the balance of force, and lead to further reinvention of the governance scheme itself - and wider responsibility are possible.

This course provides a foundation knowledge and understanding of the principles and practices of financial reporting and of the role of accounting information within its broader economic, social, and organizational context. It offers broad coverage of the core financial statements presented and considers the capacity for accounting information to develop in response to changing economic and social needs. 

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 explores the main theories, concepts, and approaches developed by social studies of science and technology (STS), and analytically compares them and discusses their pros and cons. The course examines basic issues about the materiality of and governance by data infrastructures, and their social and philosophical implications. Students develop experience in designing research on data infrastructures. Throughout the course, interactive moments are devoted to developing empirical research design skills, ranging from research question design to research methodologies. Such moments are finalized to support the STS research design to be submitted as part of the course assessment. The last week of the course focuses on data infrastructures and addresses some sociopolitical implications of data infrastructures. All topics are tackled by reading, presenting, and commenting on leading international literature and empirical case studies.

This course examines the practical applications of immunology and microbiology in biological research, clinical analysis and disease diagnosis. It covers application of antigen-antibody interaction in advanced research such as chromation; immunoprecipation assay, co-immunoprecipitation and dual immunofluorescence analysis; principles of flow cytometry and its application; tumor immunology and immunotherapy such as FDA-approved checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy; microbial pathogens and associated diseases, host immune response, antimicrobial agents and multidrug resistance, epidemiology and prevention of microbial infections; and clinical laboratory analysis in haematology, chemical pathology, and clinical microbiology.

This course explores the process and mechanism of the economic development of modern East Asia from the 19th century to the present. East Asia, which includes Japan, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Korean Peninsula, is a rarity in that it has succeeded in economic catch-up with Western European and North American developed countries in the 20th and 21st centuries. This course highlights the relationships and interactions between the countries in the region.