Italy

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.

The course introduces a range of both theoretical and practical issues encountered by researchers when planning and carrying out studies involving atypical populations. The course attempts to integrate diverse research topics and explanatory models within a broader framework of Neurodevelopmental Disorders in order to demonstrate how challenging might be an effective end-to-end research process. The introductory sessions present the theoretical background and seek to highlight different methodological aspects (from participants recruitment to ethical issues in practice) driving the research in this field. The second part of the course focuses on critical discussions of current research works in the field, with particular attention to cognitive and emotional aspects in educational settings. The course discusses topics including research on atypical child development in educational settings; an overview of main approaches and explanatory models of atypical development; research methods in atypical development: from participant recruitments to ethical issues in practice and practical (clinical/educational) implications of results; critical evaluation of different research techniques according to studies aims and settings; individual and environmental risk vs. protective factors in atypical development; and cognitive and emotional research topics in atypical populations (specific learning disorders, ADHD, and Autism Spectrum Disorders). The course requires students to have basic knowledge of typical developmental psychology and research methods as a prerequisite.

This course is intended to develop the linguistic skills of students who have completed the first year of Italian. It reviews basic grammar structures with emphasis on exceptions; it enriches vocabulary, reading comprehension, and argumentative skills on different kinds of texts, improving comprehension and conversation through the discussion of contemporary issues proposed by the instructor. Students approach longer and more complex argumentative texts of which they are asked to identify the main points. They comment on articles or reports on contemporary issues in which authors express points of view and opinions. In oral tests and group discussions, students are asked to take a critical stance on given texts, debating pros and cons of different points of view. They also research various aspects of Italian daily life, interviewing Italian people and reporting back to the class. They can understand discussions on concrete and abstract topics and follow conversations between native speakers. All four abilities (writing, speaking, listening, reading) are developed, also with the support of authentic audiovisual materials such as Italian movies, short videos, tv programs, and songs. The course uses a communication-based approach: students engage in daily role-plays, group activities, games, and class discussions. Out of class activities are designed to take advantage of the opportunities for interaction and language practice, as well as immersion in Italian culture, that the city provides.

The course is part of the Laurea Magistrale program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrolment is by consent of the instructor. This course examines the history of women and gender relations in contemporary times. Through lectures and critical reading of original sources, the course develops the emancipation process and construction of female citizenship on both a social and then political level. In particular, the crucial issues of the relationship between historical women's associations and neo-feminisms through the last decades of the twentieth century are addressed, in a framework of national and transnational comparison.

The course is part of the Laurea Magistrale program and students are permitted to take the course with instructor consent. Commerce and art collide in the film marketplace every day. Is there a line between business and art, content and promotion, the bottom line and award accolades? This course explores the reality behind big budget art. The course details the life of two fundamentally different products: the independent and studio film. From concept inception to final net revenue reality, the course investigates basic aspects of development, finance, production, marketing, and distribution by investigating two roles 1) indie producer and 2) studio executive. The course focuses on the history of the U.S. production distribution studio machine as the primary market maker that has recently shifted towards international distribution and streaming. It provides an overview of the history of film from a business perspective, outlines the basic terminology of filmmaking development, finance, and production, and outlines indie to studio structures. The course also focuses on the major tools of the marketing executive, their budget, partnership structures, and the essence of timing media for film campaigns.

The course is part of the LM degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by consent of the instructor. The course reviews the political landscape of food and farming development in developed and developing countries. Policy initiatives by national governments can operate in coordination or conflict with private companies and corporations, international organizations, NGOs. At the end of the integrated course the student is able to: identify the different stakeholders operating the food and farming sectors; understand and evaluate objectives, policy instruments, and strategies that characterize an agricultural policy; identify public policies that address food waste prevention and reduction in developing and developed countries; to outline sustainable food and farming policy options, the implications of these policies for institutions, and their potential impacts on the food system; to analyze the policy formation and implementation processes in different countries, and evaluate costs and benefits of sustainable food and agricultural policies.

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale program. The course is intended for advanced level students only. Enrollment is by consent of the instructor. This course identifies the major categories of inherited diseases, the genetic mechanisms contributing to disease etiology, and their inheritance patterns. The course describes strategies to identify the genetic causes of inherited diseases. The course discusses the use of genomic data and technology in the management of inherited diseases and innovations in human genomic research and their applications in medicine. The course evaluates research articles pertinent to medical genomics. The course discusses topics including sequencing the human genome; medical genetics; identification of disease genes; Mendelian diseases; chromosomal diseases; multifactorial diseases; and pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine. Students design and perform experiments of molecular genetics, including PCR and direct sequencing using Sanger method, and evaluate the presence of variations/mutations in human DNA and their role in Mendelian disorders. The course is divided in two parts: a wet-lab course, where the students prepare PCR and sequencing reactions, and a part using informatics tools, including public programs and databases, in order to analyze the obtained sequences and evaluate the presence of variants/mutations and determine their possible pathogenicity.