MOOC - Massive Open Online Courses

Instructor: Daniela Favaretto

Language: Italian

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Objectives: to cover the core ideas needed to face the First Year University Mathematics exam.  

Open: to anyone interested.

Prerequisites: the only prerequisite is personal motivation.

Course outline: the course is offered in 4 units.

Workload: 4 weeks (estimated 3-4 hours a week)

Maximun length of video-lessons: 190 minutes

Testing: involves a multiple-choice test of 10 questions at the end of each unit. The Certificate of Attendance will be given if at least 7 of the 10 questions is answered correctly (three attempts can be made at answering each question).

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Instructors: Giulia Lucia Cinque

Language: Italian

Enrolment starts: 11/15/2020

Course starts: 11/30/2020

Objectives: the course aims at providing food for thought and useful strategies to make a responsible and aware career choice

Open: anyone who is experiencing difficulties in making career choices or in facing the consequences of a wrong career decision

Prerequisites: none

Course outline: the course has 4 learning units, each of them consists of a video-lesson, approximately 40 minute long, and a multiple choice test. The forum allows students to pose questions and to share their reflections each week. Participation to the forum is optional and does not affect the deliverance of a final certificate

Workload: 4 weeks, about 2– 3 hours per week

Testing: there is a multiple choice test consisting of 10 questions at the end of each unit.

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Instructor: Marcella Simoni, Emanuela Trevisan

Language: English

Enrollment starts: 01/25/2021

Course starts: 02/08/2021

Objectives: this course aims to investigate the history of the Israeli Palestinian conflict from the perspective of civil resistance and nonviolence, aspects normally ignored by the press and neglected by the Historiography of Israel and Palestine.

Open: to anyone interested.

Prerequisites: English language skills

Course content: 6 weeks

Workload: 4-5 hours

Testing: a multiple choice test

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Instructors: Valentina Bonello, Lorenzo Calvelli, Alessandro Casellato, Stefania De Vido, Mario Infelise, Gianluca Ligi, Adelisa Malena, Claudio Povolo, Anna Maria Rapetti, Gilda Zazzara

Language: Italian

Course starts: 04/12/2021

Objectives: to illustrate how History is taught at Ca' Foscari, and, above all, highlight the enormous advantages of being able to study History in Venice. This city can be viewed as an open-air book, which allows students to encounter History from its Ancient roots to its Contemporary manifestations. The aim is to show the fundamental need to come into contact first-hand with people, places and sources in the study of History, which can neither be taught nor researched by using the computer and the web.

Open: to anyone interested.

Prerequisites: none.

Course content: the course includes 9 teaching units

Workload: 5 weeks of study; estimated 3 hours a week

Testing: involves a multiple-choice test at the end of each unit. The Certificate of Attendance will be given if at least 70% questions is answered correctly (three attempts can be made at answering each question).

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Instructors: Renzo Orsini, Flaminia Luccio, Andrea Albarelli

Language: English

Enrollment starts: 07/04/2021

Course starts: 07/19/2021

Objectives: algorithms, programming databases.

Open: to anyone interested.

Prerequisites: English language skills.

Course outline: there are five units in the course over a period of five weeks. Each unit concerns a one of the main topics listed in the above objectives divided into its basic concepts in video-lessons lasting about 10 miutes each.

Workload: 5 weeks of study, estimated 6 hours/week

Maximum length of video-lessons: 225 minutes

Testing: a mid-unit self-assessment test is given with each unit. The final result will be determined by the sum of the mid-unit tests.

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Instructor: Alessandra Cecilia Jacomuzzi

Language: Italian

Enrollment starts: 09/12/2021

Course starts: 09/27/2021 

Objectives: to provide the fundamentals of psychology and explain a number of main principals of cognitive functioning.

Open: to students in Tourism, consultants, public policy administrators.

Prerequisites: the fundamental prerequisite is a curious and rigorous mind. No other prerequisites are required except for the lesson on the mathematical approach to input-output where a foundation knowledge of Matrix mathematics and Convergent series is suggested. This last section is, however, optional and the final Certificate will indicate if it has been attended.

Course content: the course includes 4 teaching units.

Workload: 4 weeks (estimated 2-3 hours a week)

Testing: involves a multiple-choice test of 10 questions at the end of each unit. The Certificate of Attendance will be given if at least 7 of the 10 questions is answered correctly (three attempts can be made at answering each question).

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Instructor: Giuliana Giusti

Language: Italian

Enrollment starts: 09/12/2021

Course starts: 09/27/2021

Objectives: to develop linguistic metacompetence on the biological and cultural nature of language; to disseminate the main aspects of linguistic analysis aiming at the enhancement of inclusive cultural identity; to provide tools of linguistic analysis as the grounds of an inclusive methodology to teach L1, L2, LS, and classical languages; to involve interested people in a linguistic survey on the languages in Italy and of the Italian varieties in the World.

Open: to anyone interested in discovering the dual nature of language as a biological and social phenomenon.

Prerequisites: a good competence of Italian

Course content: 4 weeks

Workload: 4 hours per week

Testing: Participation in a linguistic survey.

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Instructor: Fabio Pranovi, Sara De Vido, Francesca Coin, Christine Mauracher, Giovanni Bertin, Anna Cardinaletti, Ivana Padoan, Carlo Giupponi, Francesco Gonella, Vania Brino, Stefano Soriani, Enrico Gargiulo, Fabio Pittarello, Fabrizio Panozzo, Carlo Barbante, Gabriella Buffa.

Language: Italian

Enrollment starts: 09/27/2021

Course starts: 10/11/2021

Objectives: Providing cross-sectoral education on the topic of sustainable development, through an analysis of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) contained in the United Nations 2030 Agenda. Various Ca’ Foscari professors will illustrate each goal, analyzing the topic trough the lens of their own area of expertise

Open: Everyone, especially university students

Prerequisites: No prerequisites.

Course outline: The course is offered in 4 units.

Workload: 4 weeks (4 hours a week).Maximum length of video-lessons: 204 minutes.

Testing: Involves a multiple-choice test of 10 questions at the end of each unit. The Certificate of Attendance will be given if at least 7 of the 10 questions is answered correctly (three attempts can be made at answering each question).

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Instructors: Alessandro Scarso, Stefano Antoniutti
Language: italian

Enrollment starts: 10/03/2021

Course starts: 10/18/2021

Objectives: the course aims at providing the students with the fundamental elements for the correct interpretation of monodimensional (1H, 13C, 31P) and bidimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectra in order to ascertain the final structure of organic and organometallic species.

Open to: the course is particularly suited for students in the degrees in Chemistry, Industrial Chemistry,  Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technologies, Pharmacy, Biotechnology, Nano and Biomaterials and similar where the characterization of molecules in solution is studied.

Prerequisites: no particular pre-requisites are requested.

Course content: the course is divided into 5 units.

Workload: 3h per week for overall 5 weeks.

Testing: to pass the course the student has to complete a multiple-choice test provided at the end of each unit. The certificate of attendance will be released answering correctly to at least 70% of the questions (each test can be tried three times at the maximum).

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Instructor: Giuliana Giusti

Language: Italian

Enrollment starts: 11/07/2021

Curse starts: 11/22/2021

Objectives: The course aims to develop a reflective awareness of the relationship between Language and Identity with reference to Gender. The practical effects regard the ability to apply this awareness to use communicative strategies, allowing the presence of women to emerge in every social setting and in cultural discourse.

Each teaching unit will treat an important aspect of Gender and Language concerns. The aim is to raise issues that have still yet to be thoroughly treated in Italy and, at the same time, offer the linguistic skills needed to face matters that are often subject to discussion in the fields of sociology, psychology and politics.
The first week looks at the close interconnection that exists between biology and culture (nature and nurture) within Language and Gender. The second week inspects the formal and social aspects of language and how these interact with the construction of cultural identity. The third week examines how form directly influences the meaning of communication and how this nexus influences the possibility of the presence of women emerging in cultural discourse.  The fourth week  analyses practical issues surrounding the  “Grammar of Gender” and proposes solutions on how to solve linguistic uncertainty along with the motives to use one suggested form or another. The fifth week is dedicated to discussing first names, the transmission of family names and the naming of areas within cities.

Open: to anyone interested.

Prerequisites: none.

Course content: the course includes 5 teaching units.

Workload: 5 weeks of study, estimated 5 hours a week.

Testing: involves a multiple-choice test of 10 questions at the end of each unit. The Certificate of Attendance will be given if at least 7 of the 10 questions is answered correctly (three attempts can be made at answering each question).

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Instructors: Caterina Carpinato, in collaborazione con Eugenia Liosatou (e gli studenti A. Bove, C. Coghetto, E. Mescalchin, I. Musso, M. Scialabba).

Languages: Italian, Modern Greek, Catalan, Spanish (ancient Greek, Latin)

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Objectives: The course, in the frame of the European Project “Archaeoschool for the future”(Erasmus+ 2015-2018), aims to provide basic elements of four European languages ​​(Italian,Spanish, Catalan and Modern Greek). It aims to enhance European multilingualism and to raisestudents' awareness of the historical importance of languages ​​and their evolution. The courseprovides some reflections on the role of the languages ​​and the historical and cultural function ofAncient Greek and Latin in the Mediterranean, which were languages ​​of culture, trade, power andexchanges. The main objective is to determine a conscious linguistic sensitivity: multilingualism isa precious resource rather than a barrier. A conscious linguistic sensitivity allows to develop theability to analyze our mother tongue; to actively translate other foreign languages; to understand thehistory of the languages; to reflect on the common linguistic structures among the Indo-Europeanlanguages; to enhance the dimension of multilingualism; to think about the role of the spokenlanguages ​​of the present and of the past; to understand the historical-social and political importanceof the active use of spoken languages ​​(as an expression tool for civic coexistence).
Open: to anyone interested

Prerequisites: noneCourse
outline: Sept. 29/17 November 2017
Workload: 8 weeks (ca. 4 hours a week)
Testing: multiple choice test at the end of each unit. Students can obtain the certificate of attendance if at least 70% of the questions are answered correctly (each test includes three possibleanswers)

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Instructor: Maria Antonietta Baldo, Elti Cattaruzza, Ligia Maria Moretto, Andrea Pietropolli Charmet 

Language: Italian

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Objectives: the aim is to provide guidance to students for a correct approach to the experimental investigation, especially useful for those who face a scientific study path as well as for people using measuring instruments; at the same time, to raise awareness of the importance of correct application of the scientific method in the design and execution of experiments, through the application of the main statistical tools for processing, analysis and interpretation of experimental data

Open: the training courses are provided to more subjects:
- All students of science degree courses, in particular: three-year degree in "Chemistry and Sustainable Technologies" and "Technologies for the Conservation and Restoration";
- magistral degree in "Chemistry and Sustainable Technologies", "Science and Technology Bio and Nanomaterials "," Chemical Sciences for Conservation and Restoration" and other related courses;
- PhD students in scientific subjects, especially those engaged in interdisciplinary research (chemistry, physics, biology and /or medicine);
- Young people in university entrance, eager to take advantage of a university-cutting course to confirm their choice.

Prerequisites: no

Course content: the course consists of three teaching units

Workload:  about 5 hours a week

Lessons:  about 200 mins

Testing:  through a multiple choice test at the end of each teaching unit. The attendance certificate is issued correctly answering at least 70% of the proposed applications (the test has three attempts to answer)

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Instructor: Cristina Tonghini, Arianna Traviglia, Lucio Milano

Language: English

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Objectives: To raise public awareness and provide the concept basics about Cultural Heritage Crimes, as well as inform about the principal legislative and operative tools to counter such phenomena.

Open: to anyone interested.

Prerequisites: Personal motivation is the only requirement.

Course content: the course includes 4 teaching units.

Workload: 4 weeks (estimated 4 hours a week)

Maximum length of video-lessons: 250 minutes

Testing: involves a multiple-choice test of 10 questions at the end of each unit. The Certificate of Attendance will be given if at least 7 of the 10 questions is answered correctly (two attempts can be made at answering each question).

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Instructor: Dr. Davide Giurlando

Language: Italian

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Objectives: the activity will present an overview of the most remarkable artists and trends in the context of European and American animated films, from the birth of animation to contemporary times.
Open: to university students, preferably with a background in Humanities.
Prerequisites: none
Course content: 4 units
Workload: approximately 3-4 hours a week.
Testing: multiple choice test at the end of each unit. Students can obtain the certificate of attendance if at least 70% of the questions are answered correctly (each test includes three possible answers).

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Instructor: Fabio Pranovi, Sara De Vido, Francesca Coin, Christine Mauracher, Giovanni Bertin, Anna Cardinaletti, Ivana Padoan, Carlo Giupponi, Francesco Gonella, Vania Brino, Stefano Soriani, Enrico Gargiulo, Fabio Pittarello, Fabrizio Panozzo, Carlo Barbante, Gabriella Buffa.

Language: Italian

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Objectives: Providing cross-sectoral education on the topic of sustainable development, through an analysis of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) contained in the United Nations 2030 Agenda. Various Ca’ Foscari professors will illustrate each goal, analyzing the topic trough the lens of their own area of expertise

Open: Everyone, especially university students

Prerequisites: No prerequisites.

Course outline: The course is offered in 4 units.

Workload: 4 weeks (4 hours a week).Maximum length of video-lessons: 204 minutes.

Testing: Involves a multiple-choice test of 10 questions at the end of each unit. The Certificate of Attendance will be given if at least 7 of the 10 questions is answered correctly (three attempts can be made at answering each question).

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Instructor: Maria Roberta Novielli

Language: Italian

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Objectives: the analysis of the four main seasons of the artistic production in Japanese Cinema, as an introduction to its history and to the works of some major protagonists of the World scene

Open: mainly humanities students

Prerequisites: none

Course content:Each video will deepen a period of the history of Japanese ciinema in which some of the main innovations of style and themes have been achieved.

Workload:  about 3-4 hours a week

Testing: multiple choice test at the end of each unit. Students can obtain the certificate of attendance if at least 70% of the questions are answered correctly (each test includes three possible answers)

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Instructor: Marina Buzzoni

Language: Italian

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Objectives: The major goal of this course is to instruct students in discovering the potentials of philology and textual criticism in the digital age. Quantitative approaches to both scholarly editing and text analysis will be presented. Practical exercises will also be offered!

Open: to anyone interested.

Prerequisites: Personal motivation is the only requirement.

Course content: the course includes 4 teaching units.

Workload: 4 weeks (estimated 4-5 hours a week)

Maximum length of video-lessons: 210 minutes

Testing: involves a multiple-choice test of 10 questions at the end of each unit. The Certificate of Attendance will be given if at least 6 of the 10 questions is answered correctly (two attempts can be made at answering each question).

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Instructor: Emanuele Marcello Ciampini

Language: Italian

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Objectives: The course aims to present an introduction to the writing’s culture in the pharaonic civilization (forms of writing, evolution of the language, relations of Egypt with other writings).  Part of the course is dedicated to the forms of the writing and its connection with the text, focusing the nature of the hieroglyphs.  The course also introduces to the ancient Egyptian literature and its topics (genders, main features, and the tradition of texts).

Open: to anyone interested.

Prerequisites: Personal motivation is the only requirement.

Course content: the course includes 7 teaching units.

Workload: 7 weeks (estimated 4-5 hours a week)

Maximum length of video-lessons: 165 minutes

Testing: involves a multiple-choice test of 10 questions at the end of each unit. The Certificate of Attendance will be given if at least 6 of the 10 questions is answered correctly (two attempts can be made at answering each question).

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Instructor: Emanuele Marcello Ciampini

Language: Italian

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Objectives: The course describes the basic elements of pharaonic culture, according to the following subjects: Pharaonic Egypt: geography, chronology, and attitude to the ancient civilization by the classical culture up to the birth of Egyptology; History, sources for the reconstruction of pharaonic Egypt. Basic history of ancient Egypt; Monumental architecture and its cultural meaning; The culture of the image.

Open: to anyone interested.

Prerequisites: Personal motivation is the only requirement.

Course content: the course includes 4 teaching units.

Workload: 4 weeks (estimated 5 hours a week)

Maximum length of video-lessons: 250 minutes

Testing: involves a multiple-choice test of 10 questions at the end of each unit. The Certificate of Attendance will be given if at least 6 of the 10 questions is answered correctly (two attempts can be made at answering each question).

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Instructor: Emanuele Marcello Ciampini

Language: Italian

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Objectives: The course aims to present an introduction to the writing’s culture in the pharaonic civilization (forms of writing, evolution of the language, relations of Egypt with other writings).  Part of the course is dedicated to the forms of the writing and its connection with the text, focusing the nature of the hieroglyphs.  The course also introduces to the ancient Egyptian literature and its topics (genders, main features, and the tradition of texts).

Open: to anyone interested.

Prerequisites: Personal motivation is the only requirement.

Course content: the course includes 7 teaching units.

Workload: 7 weeks (estimated 4-5 hours a week)

Maximum length of video-lessons: 165 minutes

Testing: involves a multiple-choice test of 10 questions at the end of each unit. The Certificate of Attendance will be given if at least 6 of the 10 questions is answered correctly (two attempts can be made at answering each question).

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Instructors: Giorgio Cesarale

Language: Italian

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Objectives: The course aims to reconstruct the mature Hegel's political philosophy, presented in the Elements of the Philosophy of Right. All the topics related to the ethical life, and in particular the role of its fundamental institutions (family, civil society and State), will be taken into account.

Open: for anyone who might be interested.

Prerequisites: the only prerequisites are curiosity and willingness to learn.

Course outline: the course is divided into 5 teaching units.

Workload: 5 weeks (3-4 hours per week)

Testing: involves a multiple-choice test of 10 questions at the end of each unit. The Certificate of Attendance will be given if at least 7 out of 10 questions are correctly answered (three attempts can be made at answering each question).

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Instructors: Silvia Camilotti

Language: Italian

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Objectives: to investigate the connection between contemporary Italian literature and migration, through a reflection on the literary production of non-Italian authors

Open: everyone who is interested in a part of contemporary Italian literature that is rapidly changing and that is strictly related to the social transformations occurred in the Italian society in the last three decades.

Prerequisites: to be interested and curious towards the changes that contemporary Italian literature is going through due to migration movements

Course outline: the course consists of 5 teaching units with videos, quiz, open questions and forums

Workload: 5 weeks, about 2 hours per week

Testing: a multiple-choice test is given at the end of each unit. The certificate of attendance will be issued to students who have answered correctly at least 4 out of 5 questions (three attempts for each question allowed). The forum will be used as a tool for discussion

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Instructor:  Coonan Carmel Mary, Graziano Serragiotto, Marcella Menegale, Ada Bier, Federico Vicario, Antonella Ottogalli, Cristina Di Gleria, Franco Finco, Matejka Grgič

Language: Italian

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Objectives: This course is aimed at all those interested in deepening their knowledge on the ways in which the Friulian minority language can be used to teach subject matter content. Such teaching modality falls under the approach known as CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), which began to spread in Europe in the nineties. CLIL is a learning environment where both subject and language objectives are pursued by means of task-based activities. Participants will be introduced to those teaching strategies that are necessary to foster such a learning environment, like, for example, facilitating text comprehension, offering language support to encourage production, using technologies as a means to actively involve students, and adopting an integrated approach to evaluation and assessment.

Open: to anyone interested.

Prerequisites: Personal motivation is the only requirement.

Course content: the course includes 6 teaching units.

Workload: 6 weeks (estimated 5 hours a week)

Maximum length of video-lessons: 220 minutes

Testing: involves a multiple-choice test of 10 questions at the end of each unit. The Certificate of Attendance will be given if at least 6 of the 10 questions is answered correctly (two attempts can be made at answering each question).

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Instructors: Asia Assenova, Enric Bou, Caterina Carpinato, Aurora Firta, Flora Koleci, Iliana Krapova, Eugenia Liosatou, Aleksandra Mladenovic, Albert Morales, Patrizio Rigobon, Giuseppina Turano.

Language: Italian

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Objectives: This training activity, designed in a multilingual, multidisciplinary and multicultural perspective, aims to offer an initial presentation of some of the languages, cultures and literatures taught at the University Ca' Foscari of Venice.

Starting from Catalonia,  moving to the Balkans through Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Albania and Greece in a virtual voyage that will reveal their languages, cultures and societies.

Each country will be considered in the uniqueness of its history, its tradition and its identity. The countries we present are different because of their different origin, but the dominant cultural trends in each of them are important for the entire European and Western context.

The course has six units dedicated respectively to the language and culture of  Catalonia, Romania, Greece, Albania, Bulgaria and Serbia-Croatia.

The approach adopted for this activity is mainly linguistic, and socio-cultural. Instructors will use photos and maps, as well as audio and video materials.

Open: to anyone interested.

Prerequisites: the only prerequisite is personal motivation.

Course outline: the course includes 6 teaching units.

Workload: 6 weeks (estimated 4-5 hours a week)

Testing: involves a multiple-choice test of 10 questions at the end of each unit. The Certificate of Attendance will be given if at least 7 out of  10 questions are correctly answered (three attempts can be made at answering each question).

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Instructor: Giovanni Bertin, Marta Pantalone

Language: italian

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Objectives: to acquire methodological knowledge in order to design and manage social research, with particular reference to qualitative techniques and con-sensus method approach.

Open: to Master students who are planning a research work and have no basis of the methodology of social research. Students of social research methodology courses.

Prerequisites: none

Course content: The course consists of three learning units:

1. social research methodology
2. qualitative techniques and interview
3. con-sensus method

Workload: 3 weeks (about 4 hours per week)

Maximum length of video-lessons: 180 minutes

Testing: multiple choice test

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Instructors: Fabrizio Marrella, Sara De Vido

Language: Italian

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Objectives: this mooc intends to provide the basic elements of understanding some of the main questions of International Law and European Union Law to complement or update lectures offered in curricular University courses. Some cases taken from international practice or from EU practice will be examined with reference to economic issues, human rights and the fight against international terrorism.

Open: to anyone interested.

Prerequisites: Some understanding of public and private law is useful but not indispensable to be able to participate in the module.

Course outline: There are 4 units in the course that include a series of video-lessons.

Workload: 4 weeks (estimated 3-5 hours a week)

Maximum length of video-lessons: approximately 160 minutes

Testing: Tests are supplied as attachments to each unit regarding, in general terms, European Court Sentences echr.coe.int, European Union Court of Justice Sentences www.curia.eu, International Court of Justice Sentences www.icj-cij.org.

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Instructors: Giovanni Maria Fara

Language: Italian

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Open:  everybody

Prerequisites: personal motivation is the most important requirement. However, it is advisable to have a general knowledge of Renaissance Art.

Course outline: the course is divided into five learning units

Workload: 5 weeks (3-4 hour per week)

Testing: learning outcomes verified through a multiple choice test (10  questions) at the end of each learning unit. The attendance certificate is issued to those who score at least 7/10 in each unit.

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Instructor: Pia Masiero

Language: Italian

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Objectives: to provide a general overview of Anglo-American prose through a series of texts drawn from significant novels and short stories.

Open: to anyone interested.

Prerequisites: the only prerequisite is personal motivation.

Course content: the course includes 5 teaching units.

Workload: 5 weeks (estimated 2 hours a week).

Testing: involves a multiple-choice test of 10 questions at the end of each unit. The Certificate of Attendance will be given if at least 7 of the 10 questions is answered correctly (three attempts can be made at answering each question).

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Instructor: Didier Paul Massiani

Language: English

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Objectives: to be able to give an accurate and unbiased estimate of the possible economic impact of big events (the Olympics, Expos, and so on) or to be able to evaluate the validity of estimates given by others.

Open: to students in Tourism, consultants, public policy administrators.

Prerequisites: the fundamental prerequisite is a curious and rigorous mind. No other prerequisites are required except for the lesson on the mathematical approach to input-output where a foundation knowledge of Matrix mathematics and Convergent series is suggested. This last section is, however, optional and the final Certificate will indicate if it has been attended.

Course content: the course is held over four “weeks” (each teaching unit involves five lessons).

Workload: 4 weeks, estimated 2-3 hours weekly

Testing: each unit ends with a multiple-choice test with a 70% pass mark.

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Instructor: Paola Corò

Language: Italian

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Objectives: to discover what cuneiform script is, in which area of the world it spread to and the languages it was used for; to understand how it was deciphered, how cuneiform script emerged and developed including its underlying principles, particularly in relation to its use to express the Acadian language; to practice reading basic cuneiform script. Students will discover how scribes were trained in the Near East and which text types were written; they will also investigate the relationships between writing materials and their content.

Open: to anyone interested, to students who intend continuing their studies in Assyriology, to students as an introductory course.

Prerequisites: none.

Course content: 4 units that include video-lessons, video-exercises (Cunei-lab) and graduated tests to verify learning outcomes.

Workload: 3-5 hours

Maximum length of video-lessons: 250 minutes

Testing: a multiple-choice test is given at the end of each unit; a self-assessment video-exercise during unit 3; and, a small test at the end of the course.

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Instructor: Luigi Perissinotto

Language: Italian

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Objectives: to introduce principal aspects of Witgenstein’s philosophy, also in reference to contemporary philosophical debate.

Open: to anyone interested.

Prerequisites: the only prerequisite is personal motivation.

Course content: the course includes 5 teaching units.

Workload: 5 weeks (estimated 3-4 hours a week)

Testing: involves a multiple-choice test of 10 questions at the end of each unit. The Certificate of Attendance will be given if at least 7 of the 10 questions is answered correctly (three attempts can be made at answering each question).

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Instructor: Marina Buzzoni

Language: Italian

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Objectives: the course will look at how themes and characters drawn from mediaeval sources have been proposed anew in modern expressive art forms linked to pictorial representation: cartoons, cinema, theatre and symbols used in political communication. The principle aim is to offer a new point of view on these revisitations that will be investigated not with respect to their differences to the original, but from the take of the motives underpinning their manipulation and the coherence with which these operations have been done by authors.

Open: to anyone interested.

Prerequisites: the only prerequisite is personal motivation.

Course content: the course includes 4 teaching units.

Workload: 4 weeks (estimated 3-4 hours a week)

Maximum length of video-lessons: 250 minutes

Testing: involves a multiple-choice test of 10 questions at the end of each unit. The Certificate of Attendance will be given if at least 6 of the 10 questions is answered correctly (two attempts can be made at answering each question).

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