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This course provides students with a thorough understanding of major topical areas in financial management, including an overview of the most recent developments and the ways they are integrated into corporate practice. Students learn how to evaluate major strategic corporate and investment decisions and to understand capital markets and institutions from a financial perspective.  Topic coverage includes asset valuation, real options, capital structure, cost of capital, Hybrid Financing, corporate liabilities, Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As), and Sustainable Finance. Throughout the course, practical applications of financial concepts and techniques are carried out with the use of cases. Building on earlier, more fundamental courses in corporate finance and investments, the scope of the Sustainable Financial Management and Policy course drifts away from the simple technical analysis of corporate financial decisions to a high-level discussion of their strategic implications for the profitability and sustainability of the company. Prerequisites include a second-year course in finance.

The objectives of this course are to: 

• Understand perfect gas law, kinetic theory and the first law of thermodynamics.

• Understand the 2nd and 3rd law of thermodynamics and phase transition.

• Understand simple mixtures and chemical reactions based on thermodynamics. 

This course introduces students to a varied range of 14th- and 15th-century English and Scottish literary texts: allegory, romance, dream vision, meditation, lyric, and drama. Through these texts students explore the medieval imaginative models of the physical and metaphysical world, considering issues such as society, the body, gender, God, love, and death. Visual images and other kinds of writing and commentary are considered alongside the literary texts, to develop an understanding of the imaginative world which the literature both emerged from and helped to shape.

This historical introduction course concentrates on two branches of philosophy: ontology or metaphysics, and epistemology thus exploring the development of Western thought. A wide range of notions are dealt with, e.g. substance and accident; existence and being; subject and object; idea, knowledge, and certainty; causality, necessity, and freedom. 

This course focuses on international security with a constructivist approach. It relates the security sector's response to the 9/11 attacks in the United States and studies the international security framework that has been centered on anti-terrorism against Al Quaeda and Daech, from 2001 to 2011 (ending at the death of Bin Laden), through films and TV shows. The course draws on the theoretical apparatus of the aesthetic turn and recent work on fictional representation and its impact on public space, as well as on security policies themselves. Fiction is not just a matter of a more or less realistic representation of reality, but an increasingly influential and even central element in defining the repository for security policies.

This course discusses machine learning and its uses in business decision-making. Topics include: data extraction and exploration; basic models for classification and regression; training, hyper-parameter tuning, model evaluation, pre-processing; feature selection and generation; advanced models for classification and regression; unsupervised learning.

This course provides an overview of notable historical dates, events, trends, and individuals in China, Korea, and Japan from approximately the 3rd century BCE until the early 17th century.

This course examines key concepts, issues, and modes of analysis in the interdisciplinary fields of feminist and social justice studies with an emphasis on the intersections of gender, race, class, sex, sexuality, and nation in systems of power from historical and contemporary perspectives and the means for collectively transforming them.

The course discusses research on the dynamics of peer interactions, their impact on multiple aspects of social development, and the risk factors and consequences of peer difficulties in childhood and adolescence. In particular, the course emphasizes the importance of peer relationships for emotional competence, psychological well-being, and achievement. The course reviews how individual characteristics interact with family, group, and contextual factors throughout development to shape social behavior. Each topic is presented with a brief theoretical overview, measures and methods used in research, research findings and implications, and future directions. The course discusses topics including conceptual origins of peer research; overview of concepts and methods of assessment of peer relations; individual characteristics, contextual factors, and peer interactions; group dynamics and their effects on peer relations; and methodological issues in studying peer relations. The course requires students to have basic knowledge of developmental social psychology and research methods as a prerequisite.

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 the awareness of the information and communication technologies (ICTs) and of their socio-economic impacts; awareness of main issues pertaining to the regulation of ICTS; knowledge of emerging aspects of European ICT Law; awareness the basic principles and issues on e-government, e-governance, and e-democracy; knowledge of the legal regulation of ICTs in the Europe; and awareness the Digital Agenda for Europe framework. The course discusses risks and opportunities of ICTs and addresses legal issues pertaining to ICTs in a European and comparative perspective. The course is divided into two parts. Part one is on Computable Law: legal retrieval systems, man-made models, and machine learning systems. Part two is on legal issues of AI and autonomous systems.