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This course studies individual differences in personality, intelligence, and cognitive functioning, and differences between nomothetic and idiographic approaches. The course discusses topics including personality, intelligence, limits of intelligence as a construct and theories of hot intelligence (e.g., emotional intelligence), nature/nurture interaction, individual characteristics and their impact in everyday life, individual specificities in cognitive functioning, graphical representations of individual performance, and lifelong impact of age and education on cognition. This course requires knowledge of basics concepts of psychology as a prerequisite.

The course focuses on the main connections between migration and learning processes, especially as they concern second generation immigrants; multicultural family models, with special attention to international adoption; developmental processes of children and adolescents with foreign origins (or internationally adopted); contemporary debates on multiculturalism and interculturalism. The course highlights: tools and strategies useful in planning training courses on intercultural education in extra-school contexts; the categorization processes related to the formation of stereotypes and prejudices; strategies for overcoming ethnic conflicts; historical, social, and cultural factors that lead to racist attitudes and behaviors. The first part of the course explores the main concepts and knowledge connected to multicultural societies. It aims to promote understanding and reflection on new possible approaches for active citizenship. The topics covered in the course are the following: globalization; multicultural societies and intercultural approach; stereotypes, prejudices, and the vocational approach; racism and cultural relativism; migration in the literature, the German and Italian case: a comparison; diversity, differences, valorization of differences; assimilation, segregation and integration; intercultural education: construction and evaluation of outside-school learning paths, conflict management. The topics are explained and discussed through traditional lectures and then the students are expected to develop the topics in which they are particularly interested through workgroups geared to the production of a multimedia presentation to be discussed and defended in class with the instructor and the other participants. students. The presentation is part of the final assessment. The second part of the course is tailored on the specific topics of this course and focuses on the pedagogical analysis of migration in the German and Italian cases.

The course is part of the LM degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrolment is by consent of the instructor. The course offers a multifaceted portrait of a world in deep transition. Students are expected to become familiar with a truly comparative and global approach to the complex forces that drove global change during the "long nineteenth century." The course highlights constitutional issues, structures, and models of education, the construction of nation states and empires in a comparative perspective, as well as the relationships between human beings and nature and gender relations. The focus of the course is food history, which has provided stimulating perspectives on the global history of the long 19th Century.

This is a graduate level course that is part of the Laurea Magistrale program. The course is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by consent of the instructor. The course develops a deep knowledge of British Modern Literatures with particular regard to the relationships between literary texts and history, language and the arts. Students are able to use critical methodologies to read and analyze literary texts. Course topics vary each term, check the University of Bologna Course Catalog for the applicable course topic.

This course seeks to understand the concepts and the techniques required to conduct marketing research and to know how to apply them in real world marketing research problems in order to make better business decisions. In this course students are introduced to different stages of the marketing research process. The course examines different types on research designs, how to collect and scrutinize data, and quantitative research methodologies and their applications to various data sets which can be used to solve real-world business problems. The contents of this course comprise theory, concepts, and frameworks relevant to marketing, and empirical methodology and their applications to real-world datasets. The topics include but are not limited to: exploratory/descriptive/causal research: research design and data collection; experimental design; sampling; A/B testing; consumer segmentation: cluster analysis; perceptual maps: factor analysis; market response modeling; field experiments; and conjoint analysis. The course recommends students be have a basic knowledge of linear regressions and t-tests as a prerequisite.

This course aims discusses the main theories on learning and memory from a cultural differences perspective (for example, learning and cognitive styles in Western vs Eastern cultures), of intelligence, personality, and personality disorders from an individual differences perspective. The course examines theories on mood, emotion, and motivation. At the end of the course, students should be able to exhibit knowledge on theories and methods used to study personality, intelligence, learning, memory, emotion, and motivation from an individual and cultural differences perspective. This course requires students to have completed a general Psychology course as a prerequisite.