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The course is built on the recognition that the key challenges of the Anthropocene are complex, dynamic, and multifaceted and that understanding and tackling these challenges requires working across the boundaries of academic disciplines. Students experience teaching where multiple disciplinary lenses and different approaches come together in dialogue around specific themes (like carbon, energy, water, plastic, or sea level rise). Students examine the interactions between scientific knowledge and economic, political, social, and cultural processes involved in making and tackling of climate and nature crises. Students learn how taking action for more sustainable planetary futures requires scientific knowledge; collaboration; an openness to different perspectives; a commitment to social justice; and communication.

This course examines the fundamental concepts of probability and statistics required for data analysis. Topics include sampling; introduction to experimental design; review of simple probability; estimation; confidence intervals; hypothesis testing including types of errors and power; inferences about means and proportions based on single and independent samples; matched pairs designs; introduction to nonparametric methods; contingency tables; regression; and analysis of variance.

This course unlocks the secrets of modern electronics. It explores semiconductor materials, quantum mechanics, and carrier transport, as well as the principles behind p-n junctions, transistors, and the devices that power today's technology.    

This survey course covers an extensive review of the human body's structural framework and describes how it functions. The course introduces terms in anatomy and physiology; students get to know the body's anatomical structures and gain insight into how the structures and systems function in sickness and health.  

Topics include The human body: reading the map, Cells, Tissues and systems, Skeletal system, Muscular system, Integumentary system, Nervous system, Endocrine system, Cardiovascular system, Respiratory system, Lymphatic system, Immune system, Urinary system, Reproductive system.  

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. The course is focused on the effect of the synthesis of monomers and biopolymers on the environment, with a particular attention on their current and potential eco-sustainable developments and their effects on recyclability and biodegradability. At the end of the course the student has acquired important knowledge on the different types of biopolymers and their overall impact on the environment. The course is divided into 6 parts: Life without plastic; Polymers and green chemistry; Biopolymers chemistry; End of LIFE; Plastic pollution; Green polymers and Europe.

What makes a group of people feel like a nation? Who decides who belongs—and who doesn't? Why do national borders, myths, and identities still matter in a globalised world? This course explores how nations are formed, imagined, and contested—from ancient legends to modern passports, from cultural traditions to nationalist movements, and offers tools to understand how nations shape the world we live in.

This course examines the general environmental framework for international business studies by drawing on international and development economics, research into government-business relations and studies in comparative socio-cultural systems and political systems.

In this studio course, students acquire knowledge and hands-on experience at the intersection of cityscapes, artificial intelligence, and data-driven site analysis and urban design development methods. The lectures focus on the theoretical background of data metrics relevant to urban design. The hands-on sessions help students gain technical skills needed to apply the knowledge. Students apply the theories and skills to analyze the study site, extract current issues, and develop concepts and directions for design interventions. The goal is to acquire foundational knowledge on the theoretical basis, measurement methods, and limitations of key quantitative indicators related to urban design, and learn how to select indicators that align with the objectives of a design project. Students acquire skills in data acquisition and preprocessing; learn how to generate, post-process, and analyze indicators using various spatial data and artificial intelligence; and develop effective communication methods through visualization. Students also learn the process of applying data analysis techniques to the design site to assess current conditions, identify issues and challenges, and establish a foundation for developing planning concepts and alternatives.

This course examines the unique political economy of the United States in drawing primarily—but not exclusively—on comparative political economy (CPE) scholarship to explore how the American economy functions, how it compares to its (mainly European) peers, and why it remains so. The course consists of three interconnected main parts. The first part discusses the basic logic behind the comparative analysis of capitalism and trace the ideational roots of contemporary approaches in comparative political economy, providing a foundational understanding of key debates in CPE. The second and third part of the seminar are dedicated to the dominant theoretical frameworks for the comparative analysis of capitalism in the last decades, with a particular focus on the United States. By integrating theoretical perspectives with in-depth comparative analysis, this course equips students with the tools to critically assess the evolution of the American model of capitalism, engage critically with contemporary economic challenges, and understand how national political economies mediate and respond to the global forces shaping today’s capitalism.

This course introduces students to key topics, theories and methods in the field of social psychology. Social psychology is the scientific study of how individuals’ thoughts, feelings and behaviors are influenced by the actual or imagined presence of other people. This course covers such topics as attitudes, social influence, groups, prejudice, attraction, gender and altruism. The course critically evaluates seminal and contemporary studies in social psychology and considers the insights they offer into the psychological processes that underlie human relationships, culture and society.