Spanish

This course discusses disorders or alterations that may appear throughout development-- from childhood to adolescence--, the instruments used to evaluate the symptomatology, and methods for designing disorder-specific interventions.

This course explores the field of anthropology from the perspective of health systems in diverse sociocultural contexts (global North and global South, indigenous and non-indigenous societies, etc.). The first part of the course focuses on mental health, concepts of normalcy and pathology from a transcultural perspective, representations of madness, and the social and medical institutions that objectify them. The second part of the course examines the notion of the person, how the body is conceived of culturally and physically, how it ages and how it dies. The course also considers other topics such as feminist anthropological critiques of sexuality and gender, the anthropology of transmissible diseases, profound trauma, and questions of morality and culture in biomedicine and medical technology.

This course offers a study of the Spanish language, including the historical and cultural contexts for language development and evolution, from Latin to medieval and classical Spanish, and finally to Contemporary Spanish.

This course offers an introduction to the various forms of territorial organization in contemporary societies. Topics include: the Industrial Revolution and the new European map; colonization of Africa and Asia; world conflicts and totalitarianism; the Cold War; de-colonization and the third world; political transformations in Latin America; the European Union; the current geopolitical framework.

This course offers a study of Italian history and culture from Reunification to the present day through its cinematic self-representation. The selected films and directors are representative of the different periods of recent Italian history and explore the country's main political, economic, social, and cultural aspects.