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This course covers the fundamentals of technological innovation management and strategy. Students explore how firms and nations develop, implement, and manage technological innovation to create competitive advantages in the global market.  

The course focuses on key aspects of firms’ innovation strategy and management, including sources and types of innovation, firms’ decisions regarding market entry with new technologies, evaluation and selection of R&D projects, standards competition, and intellectual property strategies (including patenting strategy). Additionally, students develop analytical skills to work with archival data commonly used in quantitative technology management research, including metadata from research papers and patents. 

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. This is an applied course on international development economics, organized around a few selected topics. The course offers the theoretical and analytical tools is to understand the different interpretations of social and economic development - in its evolving features - both at the country and at the international level. With the objective of providing the basic context for correctly framing the Sustainable Development Goals, the course focuses on issues such as poverty, hunger, inequality, migration, and unbalanced development. The experience of the so-called emerging countries is one of the points of view. Students acquire the ability to tackle the problems of economic development and competition in an applied and comparative perspective, with thematic in-depth applications.

This is an advanced and critical course on issues of international development in light of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The course covers the following topics, analyzing and comparing different positions: Poverty definitions and measures; Poverty statistical evidence; Economic inequality definitions and measures; The Kuznets curve relationship between income growth and inequality; The debate after Kuznets; World inequality recent trends; Inequality in income and wealth in the long run; World inequality recent trends; Climate change and development: who and what is causing it, climate change inequality; Assessing the consequences of climate change; How has the world economic order changed in the last two centuries; Where is the world heading: globalization and the current international economic order; International relations, the economic order and the new geography of world economic power.

This course provide a general knowledge of European politics, society, economy and culture between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. It focuses on the most significant events and developments that shaped European history, including the rise of humanism, religious reform, state formation and centralization, overseas expansion, global capitalism, and the emergence of representative government. It looks at the consequences brought by these developments, most notably on European political and cultural practices; and study how they impacted traditional understandings of human nature to give rise to modern ideas of human rights.

This course teaches the psychiatric and neurological disorders that predispose to criminal offences. Most of this course pertains to neurocognitive processes of criminal offenders. Contextual factors, such as the history and current state of neuropsychology and psychiatry are discussed to provide the desired background knowledge of this topic. A considerable part of the course is devoted to neuropsychological abnormalities in offenders who are affected by a psychiatric disorder. Another substantial part of the course pertains to offenders with acquired brain injury. The connection between neural abnormalities and criminal offences are critically evaluated for each psychiatric or neurological disorder. A completely different side of neuropsychology and law, the effect of neurocognitive disorders in victims/witnesses of crimes on their eyewitness testimony, are also dealt with.

This course enhances students' understanding of international dispute settlement and the achievement of global justice. Following a comparison of various methods and means of dispute settlement, the course focuses on the role of international law and international legal proceedings in settling international disputes and promoting global justice. This course looks specifically at important cases at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), and the International Criminal Court (ICC). Students are asked to define and assess the role, potential, and limitations of international law and its institutions in international relations throughout the course. Students present a case study and produce a final paper. 

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 has a clear understanding of the main problems of contemporary epistemology and a detailed knowledge of some of the views that shape current debates on the structure of epistemic justification, the skeptical paradoxes and the interplay between evidential and pragmatic factors in ascriptions of knowledge. The student will have built up an ability to reconstruct and critically evaluate the arguments offered in support of competing epistemological views.

This course introduces three kinds of genealogical arguments – neutral, vindicatory, and debunking – acquiring a clear understanding of the logical structure and epistemic force of each of them. The first series of lectures addresses the 'state of nature' theory by which Edward Craig attempts to illuminate some key concepts and problems of epistemology. The second series of lectures covers Bernard Williams' vindicatory genealogy of the intrinsic value of the virtues associated with truth, namely, sincerity and accuracy. And the third series of lectures tackles the genealogical arguments by which Nietzsche and other philosophers attempt to debunk our moral concepts and beliefs.

This course examines the nature and scope of semantics and pragmatics and their place within linguistics. Topics in semantics include: the nature and analysis of lexical meanings, the relationship between meaning and cognition, the relationship between semantics and grammar, and semantic change. Topics in pragmatics include: speech act theory, politeness theory, implicature and presupposition. 

This course examines myths in relation to culture and surveys representative theories of mythology. Students read classical myths, explore the cultural elements that gave rise to particular myths, and learn to apply this knowledge in an analysis of "modern" myths, beginning with folktales and local legends.   

Topics include What is myth and why is it relevant?, The Dawn, The Olympian Gods, Gods and Human Beings, Death and Rebirth, Demeter, Persephone, Dionysus, Apollo and Artemis, Aphrodite, Myth and History, Heroes and demigods, Theseus and the Minotaur, Herakles, The Trojan War, Justice, vengeance, and punishment, The Tragic House of Atreus, Fate vs. human will, Oedipus, Medieval myths, Faust and Satan, and Folktales. 

This course trains students to put traditional Irish music theory into practice. Students are introduced to a wide range of traditional repertoire, styles and techniques, taught by leading artists in the field. Students then apply these skills to their own performances, compositions or arrangements, which are submitted at the end of the semester. Students work on one major project and one minor project, choosing any two of the following options:

- Performance
- Composition/Arrangement
- Essay

Performance:
Major Performances will be a set of tunes, to be performed and recorded in Weeks 11-12, showcasing a variety of the playing styles studied in class.
Minor Performances will be a single tune or song demonstrating some of the techniques taught in class

Composition/Arrangement
Major Compositions will be an original work or set of tunes, exploring a variety of the instrumental and regional playing styles studied in class. Minor Performances will be a single original tune or song demonstrating some of the techniques taught in class.
Major Arrangements of traditional material will be written for at least 6 of instruments available from among the ensemble. Minor arrangements will be written for at least 2 of instruments available from among the ensemble.

Essay
Major Essays will be 5000 words, researching a topic covered in class (or closely related topics, to be approved by MC).
Minor Essays will be a 1000-word commentary on the student's recording or composition, outlining the styles and techniques demonstrated.