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This is an advanced level art studio course for students with prior experience. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. Students work with the professor to create pieces reflective of their styles using the techniques and methodologies of soft and hard ground printmaking. Students learn different techniques including drypoint and aquaforte. 

Course contents: Printmaking techniques including drypoint, softground, and aquaforte. Students are provided with the fundamental knowledge and teaching methodologies necessary for the development of artistic research and individual production across the entire field of printmaking: mark‑making, drawing, and fine‑art printing. Students begin their training in the correct and conscious use of techniques through hands‑on practice and, by means of an analytical approach, learn to identify the supports, materials, and tools required to explore the expressive potential specific to each medium. Particular attention is devoted to understanding the characteristics of the mark inherent to each technique, both tonal and linear. In addition, the foundations are laid for the historical and methodological understanding of graphic processes and fine‑art printing, and students are provided with the critical tools necessary to acquire skills related to expressive languages. The educational path aims to develop the ability to internalize the mark (Feeling–Knowing) through an inductive process based on observation and direct experience—spaces in which thought and ideas take shape. Students are guided toward the creation of works through the knowledge acquired, using investigations and hypotheses that are not random but the result of rigorous and tested methodologies. Continuous emphasis is placed on cultivating care for shared workspaces and the conscientious use of materials, thereby establishing good practices for managing the Printmaking Laboratory. 

Teaching Methods: Laboratory activities (maximum punctuality in respecting class schedules is required); Theoretical lessons on the various techniques and materials; Exercises aimed at developing awareness of mark‑making, to be practiced independently and consistently; Study of significant works by artists (through field trips or consultation of books and other documentary materials).  

This is course that runs for the entire year. Part B, offered during the spring semester, is worth 6 quarter units. 

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 provides students with an understanding of the psychology of psychological development with reference to mental distress and the ability to analyze forms of psychological distress. The course content includes:

• The nature of childhood development
• Biological processes, physical development and perceptual development
• Cognition and Language
• Social-emotional development
• The social contexts of development

This is an advanced level art studio course for students with prior experience. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. Students choose a topic combining sustainability and marine biology. They then turn that topic into an educational children’s book. The focus isn't traditional scientific illlustration looking for hyper realism, but progressing students’ styles and helping shape them to fit book illustrations. Students mostly do their sketches outside of class and are expected to do the painting in class. 

The teaching program is based on an individual editorial project involving texts for children and adults, magazines, brochures, informational flyers, etc., taking into account the intended target audience. Telling science means sparking curiosity and fun. The scientific topic to be communicated involves hands-on design work through drawing, the creation of plates using graphic techniques, and digital work for the layout of the chosen project. The course includes workshops on materials, e.g., watercolors and next-generation markers. The course encourages the illustration of stories to communicate science. Lectures involve active participation in workshops held in the classroom, experimenting with different techniques for each student. The work is eventually printed; For this reason, text analysis and computer use are required. 

This course is offered during the spring semester. 

This is an advanced level art studio course for students with prior experience. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. Course contents include: Learning different book binding techniques, creating covers, designing material inside. This course is offered during the spring semester. 

This is an advanced level art studio course for students with prior experience. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. This course focuses on life drawing. Students acquire professional skills, improve their expressive abilities, and build their personal style. Students are encouraged to experiment with different techniques and materials, with the aim of successfully interpreting the artistic project discussed with the teacher. The themes and topics proposed during the course regard the human figure, its most significant details, and how different representations relate to the past and present artistic landscape.  

This course is offered during the spring semester.

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. Through this course, the students:

• acquire knowledge about the origins and development of the main Asians theaters;
• know how to contextualize Asian theaters within an appropriate historical and anthropological framework;
• develop skills in research and interpretation of relevant documentary evidences (oral and written).
• are able to understand the aesthetic and theatrical principles underlying the different languages of the Asian theater;
• discern and interpret the main Asian models of theater;
• are able to recognise the intercultural dynamics between Eastern and Western theatrical traditions.

In Spring 2026, the focus of this course is the theatrical traditions of India. The course offers an overview of the main dance-theatre genres developed in India. Special attention is given to the role, techniques, and training of the performer, highlighting the centrality of the body in generating interest, emotion, and engagement in the spectator. The course also explores how these traditional genres relate to and interact with contemporary practices.

This is an advanced level art studio course for students with prior experience. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. This course is in fashion design and teaches the use of different stamp making/print making techniques. The final is to create an article of clothing and an accessory using fabric students have printed onto. Printmaking techniques applied to fabric include calcografia, puntasecca, linoleum, etc. 

The course presents in an informal and practical way the various creative possibilities of selected printmaking techniques, starting from the most basic (drypoint, monotype, and linocut on linoleum). It also explores how students can potentially and practically develop their personal interests, with the aim to create a garment and an accessory by using a printing technique. A section of the course is dedicated to the possibilities of digital textile printing and to the preparation of files for this type of product. Throughout the course, selected artists from this creative field are introduced as sources of inspiration for the development of innovative work, encouraging and fostering the students’ creative freedom. 

This course is offered during the spring semester. 

By the end of the course, the student: learns the main themes and conceptual framework of the discipline; acquires skills aimed at fostering communication between different socio-cultural realities; takes part in critical discussions concerning the main intellectual schools of thought and applies these skills to social situations based on cultural variety; applies the main models of critical and procedural analysis of the concepts of culture, ethnicity, gender, and generations, and is able to focus on socio-cultural issues to do with migratory processes, globalization, and the knowledge society; learns to listen, understand, and debate respectfully with different viewpoints, and acquires judgment on a professional, human, and ethical level. The course focuses on the discipline of anthropology as an active political space, both in its relational and dialogic fieldwork practices, and in its ability to imagine alternative worlds. By the end of the course students will have acquired the ability to think critically about central political issues such as social equality, economic democracy, anti-racism, and environmental justice, as well as the ability to imagine and practice concrete alternatives to the way of life of contemporary capitalism. The course is divided into three conceptual paths, one per week:
ALTERITY: 1-Anthropology/Utopia; 2-Ethnographic Surrealism; 3-Fieldwork as a militant practice.
MATERIALITY: 4-Earth; 5-Sea; 6-The Gift; 7-Work; 8-Slavery; 9-Artistic Work.
IMAGINARY AND POLITICS: 10-Image and counter-power; 11-The museum as a factory of the imagination; 12-Imagining the city; 13-Participation; 14-Art-activism; 15- the politics of time between history and future.

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 student acquires knowledge of general and molecular biochemistry. In particular, the student is able to: understand the structure and function of the main molecules of biological interest; understand the molecular mechanisms underlying metabolic activities and signaling and their regulation, with particular regard to the biochemical basis of drug action, useful for understanding topics covered in subsequent courses; and understand the biochemical basis of diseases characterized by metabolic alterations.

The course includes the following topics: Classification of amino acids; Structure of myoglobin and hemoglobin, heme structure; Carbohydrates; Structure of biological membranes, fluid mosaic model, asymmetry, fluidity and role of cholesterol; Structure and function of nucleotides, triphosphate nucleosides; Role of weak interactions in macromolecules; Enzymes; Enzyme kinetics; Signal transduction; Metabolism; Glycolysis and its regulation; Catabolism of sugars; The pentose phosphate pathway and its regulation; Glycogenolysis and glycogen synthesis and their regulation; Gluconeogenesis and its regulation; The citric acid cycle and its regulation; The electron transport chain and oxidative phosphorylation; Oxidative degradation of fatty acids: beta-oxidation; Fatty acid synthesis and aspects of its regulation in relation to energy demands and glucose availability; Outline of cholesterol synthesis and its functions; Protein catabolism; General structure of nucleic acids; DNA; RNA; Human genome; DNA replication in E. coli; DNA damage in eukaryotes; Transcription in E. coli; Aminoacylation; Genetic codon; Codon/anticodon pairing; Protein synthesis (translation) in E. coli; Regulation of gene expression in eukaryotes; Recombinant DNA.

This is an intermediate level Italian language course for students who have previously completed two or more semesters of Italian. The listening comprehension section covers dialogue (in real or recorded situations) between at least two people, using relatively
elaborate morphosyntactic structures and using a political, social or cultural vocabulary; and the narrative of an anecdote, the summary and commentary of a newspaper article (easy language, medium length), television news (a newsflash, a weather report, an advertising message). The spoken production section includes talking about personal and professional projects; expressing feelings, preferences, tastes, opinions; expressing wish, regret, intention, fear, desire; presenting a plan; explaining the course of an action; presenting a written document (medium length text, newspaper articles); giving an opinion; expressing agreement and disagreement; establishing a comparison; expressing a hypothesis. Reading comprehension focuses on the essential elements of a text (press article, advertisement, fiction text or essay). Written expression includes writing a message to someone, make a request for information, send an email; writing a letter, a curriculum vitae and a cover letter; developing a simple comment from a given medium. The course also covers grammar (adverbs, pronouns, indefinites, prepositions, verbs, etc.), vocabulary, phonetics and spelling.