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The course is designed to provide fundamental knowledge of International Relations (IR). This class would be an essential pre-requirement for other advanced IR courses. For instance, the course covers key concepts like the three-isms in IR theory and strategic interactions, to enable understanding and analysis of international relations. The course also provides an overview of basic international history and background information to comprehend ongoing international conflicts and cooperation.

This practical introduction to the comprehensive range of concepts, principles and practices in marketing focuses on arts and culture-related products, services and industries. Besides drawing attention to vital distinctions in the marketing of for-profit versus not-for-profit organizations, the latter of which characterizes the majority of arts agencies in Singapore, the political, sociological and economic factors which influence those working in the arts will also be examined. This course covers arts administration and skills in the managerial aspects of the arts.

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale program. The course is intended for advanced level students only. Enrollment is by consent of the instructor. This course examines the origin and the evolution of these differences in health over the life cycle. The course studies how to measure these differences from conception to old age; and how these differences have been connected to the individual, family, neighborhood, national, and global phenomenon’s. The course analyzes different policies and interventions that have tried to alleviate these differences; and sees how these differences contribute to the rising inequality in the last century. The course discusses topics including: measurement of inequality (statistics); mortality, fertility, and birth outcomes; (demographics); health behaviors (economics); mental health (psych); the early origin hypothesis (epidemiology); and social genomics (behavioral genetics).

Opera is derived from the Latin word 'Opus,' which has been developed in Italy in the past 400 years. This course outlines the history of Opera and traces how it developed; the goal of the course is to differentiate and understand between what is music and what is opera. In addition, students will be introduced to different cultures between western opera based on the Belcanto method and its oriental traditional arts.

This course explores foundational and methodological questions about psychology and cognitive science, exploiting the tools of philosophy to equip students to reflect critically on assumptions, concepts, and methods used. In the first half of the term, students apply this distinctive approach to five specific topics: change blindness and inattentional blindness; experimental evidence about conscious choice and free will; unconscious bias and implicit attitudes; the concept of mental disorder; social cognition, and mirror neurons. In the second half of the term, students investigate more general questions about aims, methods, and assumptions in psychology, focusing on these topics: the nature of psychological explanation and its relationship with neuroscience; the analogy between minds and computers; mental representation, the ‘Language of Thought’ and cognitive maps; and the use of neuroimaging to ascribe mental states.

The development of suitable models for describing dynamical systems is a central problem within automatic control, and it is critical for the development of robust and high-performance control laws. When relationships between physical quantities are not fully known, then models and the control laws may instead be generated by measurement data, through system identification, machine learning, or adaptive control. The purpose of the course is to teach the basic principles of how this is done. The first part of the course is devoted to adaptive control and system identification for systems with several input and output signals. The focus is on state-space models and methods for generating these, including grey-box identification. The course describes iterative methods for learning, as well as model reduction for the purpose of reducing the dimension of the state space. The second part of the course is devoted to reinforcement learning. This includes the theory of dynamic programming and various approximate methods thereof. Policy iteration is explained, as well as discrete and continuous path planning. The third part of the course deals with the usage of complete components for the purpose of control, for instance, sensors that have been developed using machine learning.

This course teaches students about the concepts of sustainability and resilience, and the main implications for infrastructure. Students should have a quantitative and qualitative understanding of both present and future challenges that face critical infrastructures (waste, energy, transport, and water). The course develops understanding and skills to compare costs and benefits of different technologies, materials, and managerial approaches that are relevant to the sustainability and resilience of infrastructure. It enables students to understand how decisions about infrastructure systems are made under conditions of complexity and uncertainty. It also enables students to develop professional skills.

Language and our thinking capacity are closely related. This course explores the ways in which language shapes; assists, or hinders our thinking. Mastering one of the main cognitive tools in our possession means mastering our own linguistic minds. 

Government has, and continues to have, many ways of relating to businesses. This course takes a journey through them, tracking their historical changes and investigating how they shape our world today. Its particular focus is on how government ensures the provision of public services, whether through public or private sectors, or some combination of the two. What is the role of government today? How has this changed over recent decades? And what role does business play in contemporary society? In addressing these questions, the course focuses on the role of both public and private sectors in the management and delivery of services including health, education, transport and culture. It investigates the different ways such organizations coordinate their work and equips students to make critical decisions about whether services are best provided by hierarchical governments, businesses within markets, or in some other way.

The course examines the development of rationalism from Descartes to Leibniz. Special attention is paid to the historical context of the rationalist attempt to give a systematic account of knowledge and reality. Students examine the relation between empirical science and metaphysics in the 18th-century period of Enlightenment, with particular emphasis on the philosophies of Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant.