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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 designed to provide advanced knowledge of fundamental issues of the human experience, such as the origins and persistence of old and new forms of social prejudice and their link with stereotyping and discriminative behaviors. A comprehensive summary and critical analysis of the state of theory and research on the causes and consequences of intergroup prejudice is illustrated. Moreover, similarities and differences among distinct types of prejudice are addressed. The Social Prejudice course involves 2 modules; Social Prejudice I: Basic processes and differences among prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination; Social Prejudice II: General theoretical perspectives, specific domains, methodology and tools, and effects and reactions to social discrimination. By the end of the course students know the theoretical models, the fundamental methods of investigation, and the practical course of actions leading to social discrimination, stereotypes, and social prejudice.

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 deals with the study of the Aegean civilizations of the Bronze Age (third and second millennium B.C.E). Lessons firstly deal with geography and history of the researches; then with the Cycladic civilization; the Cretan sites and the different paths that brought about the formation of the first Minoan palaces; the impact of the Cretan civilization outside the island and on the Greek mainland communities; and eventually the Mycenaean civilization, with the analysis of a few key-sites, such as Lerna, Mycenae, Tiryns, and Pylos. Last but not least, attention is given to the causes and long-lasting factors that brought about the decline and eventual collapse of the Mycenaean palatial states.

At the end of the seminar, students are able to interpret issues related to specific historical phenomena in a diachronic and transversal perspective within the Aegean Bronze Age framework, thought the elaboration and synthesis of the data coming from the analysis of written records and material sources and from the collective debate originated from the contact with other people, especially the civilizations originating in the Near East and Anatolia. They are able to formulate autonomously and in an organized way a research path or an intellectual work, using the specific acquired tools with methodological rigor, precision, and accuracy.

This course covers key features and key processes of strategic management of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), about main characteristics of SMEs, including those owned and run by families (small and medium family businesses), and about factors and decisions impacting SMEs' sustainable competitive advantage. Through multiple cases, examples and guest speakers sessions, students develop a comprehensive knowledge about strategic decision making for small or medium businesses, with a focus on international and digital growth strategies. Prerequisites: prior knowledge of key concepts, terminology and frameworks of general management.

This course introduces students to more advanced topics in Probability Theory and Statistical Inference. The first part is devoted to investigating mathematical aspects of probability, with a special emphasis on multivariate distributions and limiting theorems. In the second part, students are guided through the methodological core of point estimation (both from a frequentist and Bayesian perspective) and hypothesis testing. These theoretical aspects are complemented by an in-depth presentation of elementary simulation and computational techniques that are routinely used within most popular statistical procedures. Prerequisites: Solid knowledge of calculus and of basic programming tools in R. 

This is an advanced level art studio course in sculptures for students with prior experience in sculpturing techniques. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor and  Accademia di Belle Arti (ABABO). The course is held at ABABO during the first and second semesters. Students are required to attend both the theoretical part and the studio laboratory and to complete individual projects. The main aim of lectures and laboratory activities is to provide students with the necessary techniques to independently execute their works in various contexts and conditions, such as: public and private settings, or enclosed and open spaces. Students learn the complexity and compositions of traditional and modern techniques. incorporating various disciplines and using different materials. Students are graded on the artistic capacity of their projects as well as the understandings and manners of the techniques chosen. 

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 focuses on some main issues of the contemporary geographical thinking, starting from authors like David Harvey, Edward W. Soja, Neil Brenner, Ash Amin, and Nigel Thrift. Specific topics concerning the spatialization of the ideas of city, sovereignty, and border will be analyzed during the lessons. Theories, models and their implications will be connected to specific case studies. The course offers advanced critical instruments to understand some issues affecting contemporary geographical space both at local and global scale.

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 detailed knowledge of 12 major areas of corporate law, including references to comparative and European aspects.

The course covers the following topics:

1. introduction to corporate law;

2. corporate forms and incorporation;

3. separate legal personality;

4. limited shareholder liability;

5. shares and shareholders' rights;

6. the general meeting;

7. the board of directors;

8. directors' duties;

9. legal capital;

10. corporate groups.

At the end of the course, students: understand the structure and function of corporate law; possess an in-depth knowledge of the principles applicable to 12 areas of corporate law; understand differences between corporate laws of three jurisdictions; are familiar with corporate law practice through case analysis.

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 aim of this course is to develop cultural, scientific, and technical aspects for the enhancement and sustainable use and recycling of both raw materials and primary-secondary resources. Moreover, this course develops the design aspects and feasibility of Appropriate Technologies for the developing countries, particularly with regard to water supply, wastewater treatment, and solid waste management. The course is deepened on principles of Circular Economy (dry waste for recycling and organic waste for composting), on the circularity as tool for saving raw material, water, and natural resources and to reduce waste production. Course content includes (but is not limited to): Principles of circular economy and sustainability, climate change and transition engineering, sustainable development and sustainable use of resources, and the integrated management of municipal waste collection and treatment. 

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrolment is by permission of the instructor. The course consists of theoretical lessons and practical sessions. In each lesson, after a theoretical introduction, a practical session takes place in which the student is asked to experience the introduced topic first-hand. The course is organized in two modules. The first module covers basic programming concepts, the second module covers advanced topics. The topics of the lectures include:

• Introduction to programming
• Introduction to the Python language
• Importing and Exporting data and text in Python
• Manipulating data and text in Python
• Describing and visualizing data in Python
• Libraries for Machine Learning

At the end of the course, the student has competences on theoretical and practical foundations for the acquisition, manipulation, and analysis of text and data using computational tools. Furthermore, the student will be familiar with the methodological foundations for the development of scripts for natural language processing. They know and use the fundamental algorithms and data structures and are able to build and interpret graphs that show descriptive statistics of the data collected in order to facilitate its analysis.

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 focuses on the following themes: 

• International contest, international organization (historical view, present rules)
• European contest, single market (from 1951 to the present), Law and legal systems
• Regulatory framework of specific sectors: organization, European agencies, rules, assessment of market structures and European regulation

At the end of the module, students: are familiar with the forms and legal disciplines applicable to public intervention in the economy, with regard to relations between State and market, in the European legal order; know how to apply the relevant legal rules in simple factual situations and how to identify the interaction between various sources of European law, in particular Treaty and directives.