French

This course focuses on implementing programs in the imperative paradigm using the C language under a UNIX operating system. It utilizes programming skills, compilation, and debugging aspects. Notions of name scope, lifespan and typing of variables, and recursion are also studied.

This course considers the emergence of the notion of post-modernity in cinema, and more broadly in the field of social sciences, since the end of the 1970s. It considers the multiple labels that have been attached to this movement (cinema of look, attraction, simulacrum, allusion) which bring together different and sometimes contradictory trends and which has experienced several eras over the last four decades, . From immersive cinema to a taste for recycling, from pastiche to the revisitation of genres, the course discusses works including those of Sofia Coppola, the Coen brothers, James Cameron, Ridley Scott, Paul Verhoeven, Brian De Palma, Quentin Tarantino, and Lana Wachovski.

This course analyzes the "Hollywood" system of move making and its strict adherence to genre films during its golden age. Additionally, it studies multiple film genres, their repeated formulae, and their global reception through reviews and economic trends.  Along with film viewings, coursework includes theoretical texts and primary source documents.

This is a graduate level course that is part of the Laurea Magistrale program. The course is intended for advanced level students only. Enrollment is by consent of the instructor. Students who complete a research paper on a pre-approved topic are awarded 1 extra unit. Maximum units for this course are 8. The course has 2 parts: A & B. Students must take both parts. No partial credit is possible. Part A of the course focuses on the history and development of non-European literature in French, with particular attention to the relationship between literary texts and the historical, artistic, and linguistic context. Special attention is placed on the different methodologies useful for the analysis and interpretation of literary texts. Part B of the course focuses on the issues of diversity and inclusion in French-speaking migrant literatures with particular attention to Quebec, Lebanese, and Senegalese literatures. Special attention is placed on literature written  by migrant authors and literature written by those born in exile. Voluntary or forced mobility generates a literature with a dual focus: towards the country of origin and towards the country of adoption. Migrant writings, in a French-speaking context, give rise to a third space in which identity is renegotiated through writing, a space for the elaboration of diversity in search of similarities. Principal texts by Marco Micone, Antonio D'Alfonso, Fulvio Caccia, Amin Maalouf, and Wajdi Mouawad.

This course focuses on the relationship between the environment and planning, particularly on zoning policies, construction methods, target objectives, and effects on the desired territories. It discusses policies of the European Union regarding zoning, development and environmental risks, and the connection to game theory to address the link between land development projects, the environment, and justice.