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This course helps students enhance their communication skills through practical scenarios focused on job-seeking and early-career business communication. Students learn how to communicate effectively to accomplish written and oral tasks in the workplace and be able to develop a useful business communication toolkit targeted at external and internal audiences. The course is designed and structured to address students’ learning needs in job-seeking and in their early careers. The course introduces students to strategies for handling the communication challenges which fresh graduates can expect in diverse work environments. They will have opportunities to learn and practice how to succeed in business writing, presentations, interviews, meetings, and collaborative assignments with the essential interpersonal communication skills such as active listening, cogent argumentation, and clear expression in writing and speaking. 

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, students know how to interpret the characteristics of the contemporary city in a changing climate. The student will know the main available tools and methods to understand, plan, and design adaptive communities, taking into account the peculiarities of diverse context (urban, rural, island, mountain). Greening and ecosystem services are explored as a strong driver of resilience and sustainability, while the principle of environmental and climate justice is integrated throughout the course.

The course begins with an introduction to planning principles, processes, methods, and tools to support students' understanding around the concept of sustainability, resilience, and planning. Planning is considered in both rural and urban environments, considering those as a complex socio-ecological system. Around the idea of planning, the course touches upon the following topics: planning in a changing climate, but how is the climate changing?; climate and environmental justice; climate risks in urban and rural areas; urban areas: greening the city; rural regeneration theory and practice from case studies and projects; and landscape management and values.

This course examines the tools of basic marketing research, along with how to apply them and provide a managerial interpretation of the findings. It covers key areas of marketing research including problem identification, defining project scope, developing a research approach, conducting fieldwork, engaging in analysis and reporting are featured heavily. In addition, issues such as sampling, quantitative research tools and marketing implications are covered. 

This course examines Australian archaeology. It covers topics such as community-based archaeology, decolonization and how the past informs contemporary issues, providing requisite knowledge for working in the archaeological sector in Australia. Following the stratigraphic sequence of an archaeological excavation, this course moves from the present through British invasion and into the deep past to reveal the layers of extraordinary capacity, diversity and complexity of Australia's First Peoples.

Health psychology is the scientific study of how biological, psychological, and social factors affect health promotion as well as the prevention and treatment of illness. The course looks at how people stay healthy, why they become ill, and how they cope and recover when they are ill. This course introduces students to the theoretical models, research methodology, empirical findings, and current issues in health psychology.

This topical course covers Twentieth-Century American Crime Fiction. This is one of the most popular genres worldwide—especially in the United States. Despite its enormous impact on popular culture, this genre remains one of the least developed areas in terms of recognized literary value, which makes it a fascinating subject for study. In this course, we read a variety of crime fiction works that have captured the American imagination throughout the twentieth century, and we will: 1. Examine each text in detail, discussing its aesthetic, stylistic, and thematic qualities; 2. Explore how the genre has evolved in conversation with popular culture, in order to better understand the sociocultural significance of crime fiction in America; 3. Use crime fiction as a lens through which to critically engage with existing theories of genre in literary criticism. 

This course provides a thematic study of historical and contemporary book arts in the Islamic world, drawing on the art of painting and calligraphy as well as key texts to engage with the foundational interrelations between text, image, orality and other forms of sensory experience. Starting with early Qurans, it moves to pre-modern illustrated manuscripts, and modern and contemporary works of art inspired by manuscript cultures, exploring histories of authorship, portraiture, patronage, workshop practices, audience and perception, as well as the collecting and display of manuscripts in museums. 

The course introduces the world of business administration, and discusses how organizations, particularly in the real estate and built environment field, are managed. The core topics on the course comprise corporate social responsibility (environmental and societal issues), strategy, leadership, marketing, financial accounting, management accounting, organizational culture, and innovation. The course studies businesses' goals, conditions under which they operate, and management and analysis tools. Special focus is placed on strategic management. Societally critical topics, including corporate social responsibility and transforming spatial needs due to the societal environmental and digital transition are widely discussed during the course.

This course combines a bold and sweeping overview of the history of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East over two millennia, with an exploration of the nature of empires and imperialism in antiquity. Students explore how imperial states built and maintained their power (including their efforts to assert and justify their power to themselves and their subjects); the experiences of other populations and cultures that were conquered or incorporated into ancient empires; and the contested legacies of imperial states, both in antiquity and today. As well as tracing the histories of large imperial or hegemonic powers, such as the Achaemenid Persians, the Hellenistic Greek ‘kingdoms’ and Rome, the course also introduces students to the wide range of other cultures that lived under and alongside them, including those of Babylonia, Judea, and Egypt.

This course covers readings and analysis of ideas, theories, and contemporary issues in international relations. This course develops reading, analytical, and critical skills as well as improves the abilities to present, argue, write, and critique. Students classify Political Science concepts and theories, International Relations theories, and global and domestic political situations.