University of Padua

The course presents the conceptual and methodological elements that characterize the ethnopsychological approach to clinical psychology. Students are guided in the analysis of some content, applied research and some conceptualizations aimed at acquiring those methodological competencies designed to intervene in clinical situations. The lectures are interactive and require active participation on the part of the students. Experts with long-lasting experience in clinical services are involved in order to show certain practices regarding the course content. The course provides basic knowledge of ethnopsychology and the development of the following competencies: Competence to recognize and manage cultural differences; competence to recognize and manage one's own cognitive filters; competence to identify methodological practices regarding an ethnopsychological intervention; cultural competencies in Health Service.

Students must have attained the equivalent of A2 Italian language level as a prerequisite. This course is graded pass/no pass only.

This section of the course focuses on art and fascism: critical debate and operational choices. The course investigates the ways in which, in an increasingly pervasive way, the fascist regime influenced artistic production and exhibition policies, increasingly eroding the margins of autonomy of artists. The course provides critical and methodological tools to address the analysis of the relationship between art and fascism; enables students to grasp and verify the changes in the critical fortune of artists and works along a diachronic axis; and encourages the identification of autonomous paths of study, applying the knowledge and method acquired to personal research, which are shared through a seminar-type comparison. This course is taught in Italian and is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree.

This course develops a basic understanding of the science of psychology including topics like ethics, research design, descriptive statistics, and inferential statistics. This course covers: types of research, measurement, ethics, assumptions, correlation, ANOVA, t-tests, chi-squared, and the philosophy of science. Students are expected to demonstrate command of how psychology research is done, how to tell the difference between correlational and experimental research, how to read scientific articles, to understand matters of ethics in research, and the basics of statistics. All assessment is quantitative.

This course highlights the complexity of the interactions between information and communication technologies and the economic and social sphere, outlining some dynamics between digital technologies, different economic/business models and emerging sustainability needs. Students are invited to critically read, evaluate, and discuss events at the intersection of society, economy, and technology besides simplifications and techno-solutionism, developing an analytic competence. Topics include: systems and complexity; sustainability; shared resources management and regulation; technological neutrality; attitudes towards technology; surveillance capitalism in the communication ecosystem; privacy and democracy.

The course offers an introduction to the Italian Renaissance through an overall examination of the artistic development evolving between the 15th and 16th centuries in the main courts and cities of the Italian peninsula. Within this broad overview, a selected group of particularly significant works of art are analyzed more in detail, taking into consideration not only material and stylistic aspects, but also social and cultural issues, with a particular attention towards patronage and collecting (female patrons and collectors will be privileged among others).
 

By the end of the course, students will have acquired new tools, methodologies, and skills to develop, outline and clearly express a critically assessed thought on the following aspects:
1. geography and history of the Renaissance (definition of Renaissance, 'centers' of development and diffusion of Renaissance style, the notion of Italian Renaissance in the modern and contemporary critical debate);
2. artistic practices and workshops (the role of 'disegno'; the apprenticeship, training, and progressive emancipation of the artist; traveling artists and exchanges between 'center' and 'periphery')
3. materiality (techniques, style, and display; the renovation of the altarpiece; the oil technique)
4. interpretation of images in relation to texts (iconographic analysis, exchanges between artists and humanists or ‘literati’, with a particular attention for portraits; secular subjects and literary sources)
5. patronage, collecting and society (with a particular attention toward the role of women and the circulation of objects in different networks)

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Prerequisites: The student must be confident with the knowledge regarding the following topics: human anatomy, physiology, and general mechanisms of diseases. 

At the end of the course, the student will be able to take the patient history, perform the physical examination, formulate the diagnostic hypotheses and set up an appropriate diagnostic-therapeutic procedure for patients suffering from thoracic diseases, endocrine glands, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, anus, liver, pancreas, spleen, abdomen, peritoneum, skin, soft parts and breast, as reported in the program in full. 

Course topics include: Introduction to surgery (surgical risk, complications); Shock (classification, management principles); Infections of surgical interest; Benign and malignant diseases of the esophagus (including principles of surgical therapy); Benign and malignant diseases of the stomach (including principles of surgical therapy); Benign and malignant diseases of the small intestine (including principles of surgical therapy); Benign and malignant colorectal diseases (including principles of surgical therapy); Proctology (including principles of surgical therapy); Benign and malignant diseases of the liver and biliary tract (including principles of surgical therapy); Benign and malignant diseases of the pancreas (including principles of surgical therapy); Hernias of the abdominal wall and incisional hernia (including principles of surgical therapy); Diseases of the diaphragm (including principles of surgical therapy); Skin cancers (including principles of surgical therapy); Benign and malignant breast diseases (including principles of surgical therapy); Soft tissue tumors (including principles of surgical therapy); Tumors of the peritoneum (including principles of surgical therapy); Endocrine surgery (including principles of surgical therapy); Diseases of the mediastinum (including principles of surgical therapy); Lung tumors (including principles of surgical therapy); Acute abdomen (general framework, etiology, management principles); Diseases of the spleen (benign and malignant); Traumatology (general framework, management principles); Transplantation; Bariatric surgery; Vascular surgery; Critical care medicine; Plastic and reconstructive surgery.

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The course provides basic knowledge of modern and contemporary psychoanalysis as a model of human mind, as tool for understanding psychopathological processes, and as a psychotherapeutic treatment. At the end of the course, students: a) know major psychodynamic theories of mental functioning and development; b) handle basic psychoanalytic assumptions concerning the nature of psychopathology and its treatment; c) understand current evolutions of psychodynamic psychology (e.g., single case tradition vs. empirical research; relationship between psychoanalysis and neuroscience; process and outcome research on evidence-based psychodynamic psychotherapies).