Italy

This course guides students through the history of Italian film, from its beginnings to the present day, using films shot in the Eternal City which has captured the minds of filmmakers for over a century. The course reviews the main currents and genres, from silent film to the “white telephone” films, from Neorealism to the Commedia all’italiana, from the great directors such as Roberto Rossellini, Mario Monicelli, Ettore Scola, Nanni Moretti, Cristina Comencini, and Paolo Sorrentino. Students watch these self-representations of Italians and their capital city to deepen their understanding of Italy and Italians, how they presented themselves to the world, what they were really like, and what they aspired to be. The lens of cinema allows students to understand the shifting cultural identity of Italy over the years, on both the local and global stage. Students experience the “Hollywood on the Tiber” first-hand by visiting the famous places where the films assigned to the course were made. Students participate on a special excursion to Rome’s world-famous Cinecittà studio, where some of the most famous films have been made by both national and international directors like Federico Fellini, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Sergio Leone, William Wyler, and Wes Anderson.

This course provides an introduction to the most important aspects of corporate finance. The objective is to acquire the essential skills necessary to actively deal with the corporate finance activities of an internationally operating firm. The course explores both investing and financing decisions, focusing on their role in the creation of shareholder value. The course covers four main parts. The first part covered is the value of a firm, including financial instruments, valuation concepts, and decision rules. The second part is risk and return, including theory, empirical evidence, and applications to capital budgeting. The third part of the course is financing decisions and market efficiency. The fourth part of the course is payout policy, capital structure, and valuation. Topics covered include: finance and the financial manager; valuing bonds and common stocks; NPV and investment decisions; risk, return and the opportunity cost of capital; capital budgeting and risk; efficient markets and behavioral finance; payout policy, debt policy, and capital structure; financing and valuation. Students attending this course should be familiar with the basics of mathematics, statistics, financial mathematics, accounting, and financial markets and institutions. In particular, students should have reasonable knowledge of the basics in financial mathematics such as the time value of money, annuities, and perpetuities; basics in statistics such as probabilities, variances/covariances, and ordinary least squares; basics in accounting such as being able to read information contained in balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements.

This course is part of the LM degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by consent of the instructor. The course discusses how a large set of data can be analyzed to derive strategic information and to address data-driven decisions. The course examines the main data-mining tasks such as data selection, data transformation, analysis, and interpretation, with specific reference to unstructured text data, and with the issues related to analysis in big data environments.

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. The course focuses on the fundamental notions regarding the evolution of European and national legislation of Arts Law. In particular, they gain the fundamental knowledge regarding either the protection and the enhancement of cultural heritage and the promotion of cultural activities, but are also brought to analyze and discuss the challenge that the idea of Arts and Culture pose for any regulation, especially in a democratic system. As an essential part of this course, students also know how the digital technologies, as the last stage of evolution, have impacted on our legal systems, and have transformed and can foster all the above mentioned policies for Culture and Arts. The course is divided into three parts: Art & Law, Law & Digital Technologies, and Digitalizing Cultural Heritage.