University of Bologna

This course is part of the LM degree and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by consent of the instructor. The course consists of lectures and visits and is divided into two parts. Part one provides an overview of the history of art, mainly Italian, from the end of the fifteenth century (High Renaissance) to the beginning of the nineteenth century. It focuses on artists, movements, and main topics, particularly seen from the point of view of the revival of antiquity; and at the same time provides the tools for understanding and analyzing the works of art, studying them within their cultural, social, and political context, and in their style, iconography, and technique. Part two deals with the spiritual “infrastructure” and visual network created in the fifteenth to sixteenth centuries in Italy by the Benedictine Cassinese Congregation (1419 – 1570 ca).

The course deals with the wide theme of the skills necessary to form citizens who are able to face the challenges of contemporary life and to meet and interpret forms of citizenship that are much broader than national or European ones, including global ones: a citizenship, therefore, aware and active, oriented to the values of civil coexistence and the common good, to the relationship with the environment according to sustainable approaches. In this perspective, active citizenship education is linked to the concepts of empowerment, the recognition of one's own and others’ identity, autonomy, cooperation, the values of social solidarity and respect for the other, overcoming the discrimination of gender, to the possibilities of change. In particular, the course presents some fundamental concepts of citizenship education and active participation (identity, community, belonging, stereotypes/prejudges, etc.) and, starting from these, the course focuses on the role of the student and her/his active participation in civil society, school, and university contexts as a "training gym" to exercise her/his citizenship rights and duties.

The course discusses general knowledge of basic principles and concepts of Italian property law, contract law, and tort law. The course discusses topics including private law and its sources, personal rights, data protection, property and commons, contract law,  principle of freedom of contract VS nondiscrimination principle, consumer law, tort, civil law and common law, and pollution and compensation.

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.