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This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. In this course, students acquire necessary knowledge to read and critically interpret architecture between the fourteenth and sixteenth Centuries as well as the methodological tools to understand the territory, the city, and its major buildings. In addition, the course deals with a number of theoretical and practical issues of Renaissance architecture that are still alive nowadays.

The course provides a historical overview of the major figures of Italian Renaissance architecture from 1400 to 1600—Brunelleschi, Alberti, Bramante, Raphael, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Michelangelo, Peruzzi, Giulio Romano, Sanmicheli, Sansovino, Palladio as well as an outlook on a selection of European Renaissance architects. They are analyzed within the cities or countries they operated and will be compared with the cultural, social, and political local context. The second part of the course is an overview on a selection of European courts and on the role of humanistic architecture at the dawn of colonialism. Issues such as local antiquities, revival and survival, rules and license, theory of architecture, drawings and graphic conventions are addressed throughout the course. 

This course provides a panorama of how behavioral approaches can help to understand key issues in the political and social sciences. It examines the central cognitive and behavioral processes relevant to the analysis of social and political dynamics. Through a combination of formal lectures and class discussion, the course provides the tools necessary to apply a behavioral perspective to political and social issues. Furthermore, the methodological and theoretical limitations and challenges of these approaches are discussed throughout the semester in order to enable students to think and apply these approaches critically.

The multidisciplinary nature of management is reflected in this course. It examines the conceptual frameworks and techniques of marketing and organizational behavior, which are complementary to one another in reflecting an organization's relation to its internal and external environment. In doing so, the course develops an understanding of the growth of marketing and its role in management. Students consider how the behavior of individuals and groups in organizations may be understood and managed and also how managers might better appreciate the markets and market forces they are committed to dealing with. 

This course provides breadth and depth in organization theory to train the students in advanced problem solving. Put differently, central concepts within organization theory such as power, control, networks, strategy, leadership, change, and learning are discussed and problematized.

This course provides an overview of the various forms of popular culture in East Asia. It focuses on the question of how the rise of East Asian popular culture reflects the desire for "modernity" and "modernization" in each East Asian country and affects the interactions among them. The course explores numerous popular cultural forms such as music, film, TV drama, manga/anime, novels, entertainment, food, fashion and design in Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The course also examines the increasing global fascination of or craze for East Asian popular culture and how such East Asian "soft power" has inspired and transformed the global aesthetics and popular imagination or understanding of East Asia. 

The world's knowledge is defined by hybridity between oral traditions and written texts. This course is an introduction to Scotland's rich oral/aural traditions of song, storytelling, instrumental music, dance, and folklore. Key concepts and theories relating to the interaction between orality and print, transmission (sharing) of oral material, and intangible cultural heritage as defined by UNESCO are explored in the context of modern (cultural) ethnology. Students learn fieldwork techniques, archival research skills and oral history interviewing. Themes can include children's song, ballads, political song, Robert Burns and Walter Scott, Highland bagpipes, Gaelic folktales, and Scottish legends, and special material is drawn from printed collections and the School of Scottish Studies Archives.

This course examines the social, economic, and political processes that maintain hierarchies, drawing on both classical and contemporary theories. By exploring topics such as class, power, race, gender, elites, and cultural capital, the course highlights how inequality shapes opportunities, behaviors, and outcomes. The course investigates both historical and contemporary mechanisms that create and perpetuate stratification, drawing on empirical evidence and theoretical frameworks from sociology and related disciplines. In addition to academic inquiry, the course fosters critical observation and visual analysis, encouraging students to interpret and critique depictions of inequality in everyday life and in cultural media. By connecting abstract concepts to real-world phenomena, students gain a nuanced understanding of the dynamics of inequality and the tools to engage with contemporary debates. The course equips students to reflect on possible solutions to reduce disparities and promote equity in various social contexts.

This course examines the role of popular distrust (e.g., perceptions of government corruption, waste, abuse) in contemporary democratic and electoral-authoritarian regimes. It probes contradictions in how scholars approach distrust within democracy. It explores how distrust gets politicized and interacts with institutions and inequalities to drive participation and political violence; reactions to public spending, taxation, public-health risk and conspiracy theories; and voting behavior among groups who feel threatened (economically, culturally). By foregrounding questions of power and state capacity—and what remains of them—in the minds of voters facing new social risks, this course offers a path to harness the mobilizing force of distrust within a neo-republican framework.

The course builds upon ECO1011S and provides the analytical tools and formal models to explain the behavior of output, inflation, employment, interest rates, and other economic aggregates. These tools are used to understand current economic issues, forecast the behavior of the economy, and assess the impact of policy choices. The course allows students to understand the behavior of households, firms, governments and Central Banks. It starts with analyzing the short run behavior of the economy and then moves on to explore the open economy and exchange rates. Finally, it looks at the long run and assesses the role of technology and population growth on aggregate economic growth using the Solow growth model. Course entry requirements: ECO1010, ECO1011 and MAM1010 (or an equivalent) or MAM1031F or MAM1032S.