University of Bologna

The course is part of the Laurea Magistrale program and is intended for advanced level students. The course is taught in Italian. Enrolment is by consent of the instructor. The course has two separate modules on two different topics, PART A and PART B. Students who complete a research paper on a pre-approved topic are awarded 1 extra unit for the course. Maximum units for the course are 8, 4 for each part. The course focuses on diachronic aspects of the Italian literary tradition, the critical discussion regarding key issues about texts and authors, and the use of the principal tools of methodological analysis of texts and contexts. The topic for spring 2022 is on types of identity and women writings. Through a conceptual and thematic point of view, the course focuses on female identity in literature. PART A: The first module is dedicated to the writings of Elena Ferrante, Goliarda Sapienza, and Maria Rosa Cutrufelli. PART B: The second module is devoted to Sibilla Aleramo and Anna Banti. The course includes traditional lectures and seminars on specific texts as well as the use of audio and visual materials.

This intensive language course is conducted in Italian and is designed to provide students with basic knowledge of Italian. The course follows the language proficiency guidelines set up by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).  Students in this course generally have an entrance exam that places them between the A1.3 and the A2.1 levels. The course is intended for students who have familiarity with Spanish or French and who have a strong background in grammatical structures which allows them to proceed at a slightly faster pace compared to ITAL 10. At the end of the four-week intensive program, students are expected to be able to express themselves in a simple, fluid, and clear manner and to be able to describe events that have taken place in the past and express personal preferences. The course covers the present tense (regular and irregular verbs), the past tense (regular and irregular) and the use of the correct auxiliary verb and the concordance as well as the future tense. The course is designed to cover the first semester of Italian, roughly akin to Italian 1 and a portion of Italian 2 in the quarter system. All four abilities including speaking, listening, reading, and writing are emphasized with the support of authentic materials (videos) and real-life situations such as visits to local venues and cultural sites. The course follows a communicative approach to language acquisition and involves opportunities for role playing, group activities, games, class discussions, and exchanges with local University of Bologna students. Activities outside the classroom are organized in order to reinforce observation and communication skills that facilitate immersion in Italian culture. The course includes a major field trip. Students select the number of quarter units from a minimum of 3 to a maximum of 6. The course is organized by inlingua with supervision from the Study Center. Course materials are provided by inlingua. The basic text for the course is: NUOVO CONTATTO A1 (Loescher, 2018)

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrolment is by consent of the instructor. At the end of the course the student has a sound knowledge of the financial products traded in the market, the differences among them, and the reasons why they were introduced in the market. The products range from standard bonds and stocks to derivatives and structured finance products. The student examines the main agents trading in the market, as fund raisers or investors, as well as financial intermediaries. The course starts by illustrating the role that financial markets play in the economy. Students are introduced to the key finance concepts of time value of money and no-arbitrage valuation. These concepts are applied to the valuation of two asset classes: fixed-income securities and financial derivatives.

The course focuses on the conceptual apparatus regarding linguistic studies based on authentic data. Emphasis is placed on the role of linguistic corpora for language analysis with the support of computational tools. The course highlights methodologies for developing language teaching materials in advanced learning environments. Course topics: what is a corpus, how to use it and the kind of information it provides; parameters for corpus design; representativeness; syntagmatic and paradigmatic analysis; concordances, collocations, and lexical association indexes; annotations; electronic texts, coding, mark-up format, and conversion methods; how to collect electronic texts; corpus access and text retrieval; case study: the corpora CORIS/CODIS, BoLC e DiaCORIS; web as corpus; laboratory: querying a tagged corpus; procedures for reading concordances; introduction to machine learning; part-of-speech tagging–parsing and formal grammars; lexical semantics–wordnets; laboratory of computational linguistics.

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. The course focuses on health-related behavioral determinants and offers an overview of some recent policies aimed at improving population lifestyles. The course highlights the following topics: 1) the demand for health and health capital; 2) the behavioral determinants leading to unhealthy outcomes such as obesity and addiction; 3) the trade-offs between health and welfare objectives; and 4) policies aimed at modifying health-related behavior and lifestyles. The course combines theoretical analysis and class discussion of case-studies. The course combines theoretical analysis and discussion of case-studies.

The course is an introduction to North American literature (USA and Canada) written in English, with a special focus on identity issues and the making of "national" literatures. Classic and founding texts will be compared to outline the symbolic and mythological patterns that have molded US and Canadian realities, from European colonization to the end of the 19th century. Literature in this course is investigated through a constant dialogue with other arts, including media, cinema, photography, and the visual arts. The concepts of identity, memory, community, and inner/outer landscape, constitute the thematic paradigms to approach the evolving mentalities underpinning the evolution of complex identity processes in the so-called New World. The course discusses topics including: discovering, conquering and inventing North America; USA melting pot versus Canadian multiculturalism; puritan roots of American literary discourses; American pioneers, mapping the frontier; Canadian travelogues, female voices of the origins and contemporary interpretations; American transcendentalism/renaissance, eco-criticism, self-reliance, and new canons; the Civil War, slavery, freedom, and human Rights; the Gilded Age; and American proto-modernism.

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale program and is intended for advanced level student. Enrolments is by consent of the instructor. The course provides an overview of the meeting industry, and the basic elements for the acquisition and the organization of a meeting, with reference to the association market. The course discusses topics including meetings and events industry: value, characteristics, jobs, trends and current scenario following Covid-19; requirements and conditions of success; supply chain: venues, main suppliers, quality standards; meeting planners: different companies and services; marketing strategies: how to promote a venue or destination, bidding process for the acquisition of international association meetings; convention bureau: role and main activities;  segmentation by initiator: main markets, characteristics, needs, approach and management; different kind of events: characteristics, purposes and formats; main steps and techniques for planning, communicating and organizing an event; and green meetings.

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 course focuses on the new requirements with which diplomacy must comply, both at the national and global level, in the present transitional phase of the international relations system. A special section of the course is devoted to the radical changes that occurred after the Cold War and the public and multilateral diplomatic methods that resulted from it, with special reference to specific crises. The course describes the additional challenges that diplomacy must face, at the domestic and international level, in the present transitional phase of foreign relations. Specific case studies analyze the most relevant changes that have occurred since the end of the Cold War, and indicate the emerging public and multilateral diplomatic tools.