University of Bologna

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 student is expected to learn the frameworks of visual art produced by artists from the last decades and living today. In this perspective, contemporary art responds to a global system that is culturally diverse, multifaced, and technologically advanced. This ample focus wants to evidence critical methods for the comprehension of various contemporary art styles, through developing a deep understanding of their historical background. At the end of the course, the student is able to apply methodologies for analyzing works of art and examine the contemporary art scenario.

This course is an exploration of contemporary visual art forms and their international cultural connections for the student with little experience in the visual arts and history of contemporary art. It includes a brief study of art history of the last three decades, and in-depth studies of the elements, media, and methods used in creative thought and processes. The course takes into the latest visual expanded scenarios in which visual art is engaged with sociological and anthropological practices of now. The course underlines the many possibilities of our postmodern and post-contemporary actuality inside and outside the museum. This course defines the meaning of aesthetics and its relationship to cultural conventions, describes specific processes used by visual artists, art as a social activity and a singular creative act, historical forms of artistic training.

This course develops in three fundamental moments. The first unit (10 hours) introduces a theoretical deepening in order to identify the Contemporary Art History. The second unit (10 hours) is dedicated to deepening of some contents of contemporary art. The third unit (10 hours) is an immersive experience into different artistic spaces (galleries, museum, art association, temporary art practices), including the city, where it’s possible now to meet contemporary art.

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 two main topics: summary of fundamentals (deformation, stress and strain, porosity and permeability, brittle and ductile regimes, kinematic and dynamic approach to deformation), and faults and fault-related structures (fault core vs. damage zone; permeability changes along and across fault zones; basic elements of discrete fracture modelling.)

This course provides an overview of the role deformation plays in both the genesis and spatial distribution of ore deposits. This is done by combining traditional class lectures and lab style exercises with seminar-style classes based on reading and student presentations and a few days directly at the outcrop. This combined approach allows students to develop theoretical and practical skills related to asking and assessing scientific questions as well as summarizing and presenting the results of scientific studies dealing with the role exerted by rock deformation and fluid/rock interaction in deformed contexts. The course reviews the concepts, theoretical knowledge and techniques of Structural Geology that are relevant to understanding ore genesis and exploration of ore deposits. It also provides hands-on field work to help strengthen the theoretical knowledge and provide the students with a solid understanding of the involved mechanisms and processes. Students thereby learn the simple principles of “Structural Control” and how to elaborate the best practices for structural data collection and analysis in mineral exploration and mining.

In Spring 2025, there is a 5-day field trip to the Island of Elba and southern Tuscany, which exposes students to outstanding examples of hydrothermal deposits. Fieldwork is used to unravel and constrain the genetic relationships between brittle deformation, fluid ingress, and flow and ore genesis. 

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 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.