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This seminar explores the complex intersections of gender, nationhood, and emancipatory notions in contemporary Iran. The course critically engages with how Iranian women have historically navigated, contested, and redefined the meanings of feminism, resistance, and agency within varying political, religious, and cultural landscapes. Topics include: politics of veiling and unveiling, the role of women in protest and revolution, and the intersections of gender with class, religion, and sexuality. Emphasis is placed on Iranian women as intellectuals, activists, artists, and everyday agents of change.

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. By the end of the seminar the student is able to read and discuss scientific essays in comparative politics and history and is able to interact appropriately in a seminar situation. The Seminar consists of participation in a series of lectures given in English by the lecturer and visiting professors on the main topics of European history, politics, and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. The Seminar introduces students to international research. By the end of the workshop, students will have improved their ability to discuss research topics, to explore the topics studied in depth using international literature as well as to conduct small comparative literature searches and to translate this knowledge into a short paper written using word processing systems. Part of the lectures are given by historians and political scientists mainly coming from foreign universities such as university of Trier, Sciences Po Lyon, Berlin Humboldt, Potsdam, and Dresden. The lecturer coordinating the seminar explains to the students how to write the paper according to a historical perspective.

This course examines the histories of cinemas and their social, cultural, and political contexts from the silent era through to contemporary film. Important filmmakers and theorists are explored, from Soviet and German filmmaking between the wars, and the emergence of Africa filmmaking in the 1960s to Hollywood New Wave and Dogme 95. The course provides broad knowledge of the histories of cinemas and cinema movements and improved their analytical skills and writing abilities. DP requirements: All written work must be submitted by the stipulated dates. Students who miss more than two tutorials will lose their DPs. Assessment: Continuous assessment (essays, projects, tests, etc.) counts 100%.

This course explores research into the concept of well-being, its neural, cognitive and personality correlates, and how it is influenced by social relationships. Rather than taking a disease-oriented approach, it focuses on adopting positive lifestyle choices that can enhance health and well-being, including exercise, diet, sleep and contemplative practices such as mindfulness and meditation. It considers a range of perspectives and approaches to promoting psychological well-being, including mātauranga Māori perspectives.

KOTYDZ is a design-build workshop series that brings together students from Germany, Poland, and Hungary to collaborate on the production of housing units for feral cats in Poznań, Poland. The students spend one week working through all phases of architectural production, from client briefing and design proposals, over production planning and tendering, to fabrication and installation.

This course examines the ways in which revolutions have transformed the world. It explores what drives popular uprisings and how revolutionary change has shaped the modern world. This understanding will be developed through case studies of particular revolutions, such as the French, Haitian, American and Irish Revolutions.

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. At the end of the course, the student knows and can apply formal, ontological, and computational methods to deal with the semiotic interpretation of multimodal data and content. The interpretations considered concern different ontological levels. A 4E (embodied, enactive, embedded, extended) approach is assumed. This course covers interdisciplinary research across semiotics, ontology, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science.

The course examines emerging trends in international marketing and their relevance to global business. Students explore digital and social media marketing, content marketing, neuromarketing, gamification, consumer behavior, diversity marketing, retail marketing, and other contemporary developments. The course emphasizes innovation, globalization, and the application of current marketing trends to international business. 

This course examines the major physiological processes and metabolic basis of nutritional requirements; the nutritional qualities of food; skills needed to ensure a balanced diet can be formulated for a range of mammals; the impact of dietary imbalances; and the role of food in behavioral, psychological and social contexts.

This course addresses mathematical aspects of fluid mechanics for ideal and viscous fluids.