The course aims to present the most important concepts and patterns of the analysis used to illustrate the elaboration of the words as interactive strategy, communicative processing and tools of knowledge.
The structural elements and the functional schemas of the verbal code are classified on the base of the distinction between phonological, morphological, lexical and syntactic levels. Grace to a short historical excursus on the linguistic studies developed over time, it will be considered the frame of reference of the different explicative paradigms and rules of instantiation.
The course is divided in three parts: 1. Units and rules of analysis; 2. The methodology of the most important approaches; 3. Languages and tv.

Jackendoff R. Linguaggio e natura umana. Bologna , Il Mulino
Leroy M. Profilo storico della linguistica moderna , editori Laterza o Graffi. G. Breve storia del pensiero linguistico, Bologna Il Mulino.
Catricalà M. Dispensa da Metodologie della ricerca linguistica e altri libri della docente.
Altri brevi saggi o pp. delle fonti primarie saranno forniti in formato digitale.

The course will be divided into two parts.

Part will deal with the following topics:
- basic notions of morphology (derivational and inflectional morphemes, main processes of word formation);
- basic notions on the structure and the semantics of the lexicon (word classes and their main properties, word formats and collocations, word meaning, types of meaning and meaning relations among words, componential analysis);
- text analysis (cohesion, types of connectives, relations among clauses);

Part II will deal with the following topics:
- basic notions of syntax (types of phrases, grammatical functions and the valence of the verb);
- basic notions of sentence semantics and of pragmatics (definition of, and distinction between, semantics and pragmatics, linguistic and situational context, information structure, linguistics acts, presuppositions and implicatures).

Part I:
1) Gaetano Berruto e Massimo Cerruti, La linguistica. Un corso introduttivo, UTET (only chapter 3).
2) Federica Casadei, Lessico e semantica, Carocci (chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 6).
3) Raffaele Simone, Nuovi fondamenti di Linguistica, McGraw-Hill (from chapter 12 to 13).

Part II:
4) Mereu Lunella, La sintassi delle lingue del mondo, Laterza (only chapter 2 (from paragraph 1 to 5d) and chapter 3 (only paragraph 5)).
5) Mereu Lunella, La semantica della frase, Carocci (with the exclusion of chapter 6).
6) Andorno Cecilia, Che cos’è la pragmatica, Carocci editore (chapters 1-6).

The course will be divided into two parts.

Part will deal with the following topics:
- basic notions of morphology (derivational and inflectional morphemes, main processes of word formation);
- basic notions on the structure and the semantics of the lexicon (word classes and their main properties, word formats and collocations, word meaning, types of meaning and meaning relations among words, componential analysis);
- text analysis (cohesion, types of connectives, relations among clauses);

Part II will deal with the following topics:
- basic notions of syntax (types of phrases, grammatical functions and the valence of the verb);
- basic notions of sentence semantics and of pragmatics (definition of, and distinction between, semantics and pragmatics, linguistic and situational context, information structure, linguistics acts, presuppositions and implicatures).

Part I:
1) Gaetano Berruto e Massimo Cerruti, La linguistica. Un corso introduttivo, UTET (only chapter 3).
2) Federica Casadei, Lessico e semantica, Carocci (chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 6).
3) Raffaele Simone, Nuovi fondamenti di Linguistica, McGraw-Hill (from chapter 12 to 13).

Part II:
4) Mereu Lunella, La sintassi delle lingue del mondo, Laterza (only chapter 2 (from paragraph 1 to 5d) and chapter 3 (only paragraph 5)).
5) Mereu Lunella, La semantica della frase, Carocci (with the exclusion of chapter 6).
6) Andorno Cecilia, Che cos’è la pragmatica, Carocci editore (chapters 1-6).

This is an introductive course to the study of the role of language in communication, and to the persuasion strategies, that can help to uphold and confirm one’s own opinion. The course is composed of two parts. The first module involves the analysis of the linguistic units in order to better understand how language works in communication. In the second part, the major landmarks in the development of the debate between dialectics and rhetoric will be mentioned, and the basic elements of argumentation theory as well as the most relevant figures of speech will be analyzed. In addition to theoretical notions, practice exercises will coach students to recognize persuasion strategies in the texts, with special regard to the advertising and journalistic ones.

1st part
- Fiorentino, Giuliana, La lingua nella comunicazione. Corso di linguistica generale, Le Monnier Università, Milano-Firenze, 2020 (capp. 1-2, 5-9).

2nd part
- Mortara Garavelli, Bice, Il parlar figurato. Manualetto di figure retoriche, Laterza, Bari-Roma, 2011.
- Lo Cascio, Enzo, Persuadere e convincere oggi. Nuovo manuale dell'argomentazione, Academia, Milano, 2009 (capp. 1-5, 7, 11-12; del cap. 12 solo §§ 12.1, 12.6-12.7).

This is an introductive course to the study of the role of language in communication, and to the persuasion strategies, that can help to uphold and confirm one’s own opinion. The course is composed of two parts. The first module involves the analysis of the linguistic units in order to better understand how language works in communication. In the second part, the major landmarks in the development of the debate between dialectics and rhetoric will be mentioned, and the basic elements of argumentation theory as well as the most relevant figures of speech will be analyzed. In addition to theoretical notions, practice exercises will coach students to recognize persuasion strategies in the texts, with special regard to the advertising and journalistic ones.

1st part:
- Fiorentino, Giuliana, La lingua nella comunicazione. Corso di linguistica generale, Le Monnier Università, Milano-Firenze, 2020 (chapters 1-2, 5-9).

2nd part:
- Mortara Garavelli, Bice, Il parlar figurato. Manualetto di figure retoriche, Laterza, Bari-Roma, 2011.
- Lo Cascio, Enzo, Persuadere e convincere oggi. Nuovo manuale dell'argomentazione, Academia, Milano, 2009 (chapters 1-5, 7, 11-12; from chapter 12 only §§ 12.1, 12.6-12.7).

The course will focus on theorical and practical morphology, phonetics, syntaxis and semantics of the English language. Verb Tenses and Forms, Modal Verbs, Conditionals and Relatives; Reading, Speaking, Listening, Writing, Vocabulary proficiency; excercises and interactive activities, Language Analysis, Texts and realia analysis. At the end of the course the student will be able to correctly identify and use the main linguistic and grammatical features of the English language on an intermediate / upper-intermediate level.

C. Oxenden, C. Latham-Koenig, English File Intermediate Student’s Book, Fourth Edition, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
C. Clarke et al., Views in the News: a Textbook, LED Edizioni Universitarie.
Optional: R. Murphy, English Grammar in Use , Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Additional texts provided by the teacher during classes.

Competences and skills within the Degree in Communication Studies. An introduction to Linguistics. Linguistics and morphology exercises. Varieties of the English language and an approach to Sociolinguistics.Functional English and the use of language in advertising, magazines, and journalism. Discourse Analysis. Functional vocabulary, register, verb patterns, phrasal verbs, linkers, collocations, word formation/word blending, prefixes, suffixes, compounds, roots, polisemy, abstract nouns. Formal Writing and argumentative writing.
At the end of the course the student will be able to produce a text in formal / academic English, a presentation, a formal letter, a text or Discourse analysis. The student will also be able to understand and analyse the use of language in different contexts.

McLoughlin, Linda. The language of magazines. London: Routledge.
Gramley, Stephan, Vivian Gramley, and Kurt-Michael Pätzold. A survey of modern English. Routledge.
Additional texts provided by the teacher during classes.

The course develops methodological skills in order to undertake research in the field of communication studies and social sciences. The first part of the course will examine the methodological framework for the study of culture and communication. The main stages and strategies of the field research, with particular emphasis on the ethnographic method, will be explored during the second part.

Wendy Griswold (2009), Un framework metodologico per lo studio della cultura, in M. Santoro, R. Sassatellin(a cura di), Studiare la cultura. Nuove prospettive sociologiche, Il Mulino, Bologna, pp. 253-285
Giampietro Gobo (2001), Descrivere il mondo. Teoria e pratica del metodo etnografico in sociologia, Carocci, Roma

The course is organized into two main sections:

Section A - The digital world: A basic introduction. The concepts of information and digitization. Turing machine. Von Neumann machine. Computer. Networks: history, topology, protocols. Introduction to the world wide web and to mark-up languages; Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. Strong and weak AI, Turing test, connectionism, neural networks. Internet as global medium and features of online communication.

Section B - Introduction to digital humanities: the definition of DH; forms of digital textuality; Introduction to textual encoding; Basic notions of Digital publishing; Digital tools for school and learning.

Section A is propedeutic to section B.

Modulo A: - Fabio Ciotti e Gino Roncaglia, Il mondo digitale, cap. I-IX, Laterza 2000 (16a ristampa, 2021)

Modulo B: - Daniele Silvi e Fabio Ciotti, Lezioni di informatica umanistica, Universitalia 2021
- Gino Roncaglia, L'età della frammentazione, Laterza 2020 (second, augmented edition)

Non-attending students will add to the textbooks also:
- Franco Moretti, A una certa distanza, Carocci 2020

A list of alternative textbooks in English is available upon request.

The exact schedule of the Musical Language Wokshop will be communicated on the website of Communication Sciences

The teaching material, composed of abstracts and lecture notes related to the introductory lessons that will take place, will be announced during the course of the Workshop

a) Pier Paolo Pasolini, La Divina Mimesis, Milano, Mondadori, 2019

b) Pier Paolo Pasolini, Petrolio, edited by Walter Siti, Milano, Garzanti, 2022

c) Marco Antonio Bazzocchi, Alfabeto Pasolini, Roma, Carocci, 2022

d) Vedere, Pasolini, edited by Andrea Cortellessa and Silvia De Laude, Vicenza, Ronzani, 2022; or Andrea Cortellessa, Una ragione in più per andare all’Inferno. Vedere, Pasolini, forthcoming; or Marco Belpoliti, Pasolini e il suo doppio, Milano, Guanda, 2022

e) to give a context in 20th century italian literary history:
Giulio Ferroni, Storia della letteratura italiana, quarto volume: Il Novecento e il nuovo millennio, Milano, Mondadori Università, 2012

The course aims to explore the history and present of journalistic photography, its role as a 'window on the world' in modern visual culture and in the formation of what can be considered a 'global consciousness'.

The work of the main personalities who have marked the history of photojournalism will be retraced, as well as the relationship between myth and reality of the profession, between the aspiration to objectivity and the compromises of the editorial chain, between denunciation and censorship, from its origins to the present day. From the golden age of magazines to war photography. The current crisis of the profession. The new challenges of information through images to the aestheticisation and decontextualisation of journalistic photography in the digital age.

Elements of knowledge will be provided on the themes of digital manipulation, debunking of 'hoaxes' in the age of fakenews, political storytelling and post-truth, with an emphasis on the ethics of photography, the main codes of ethics, the legal rules for the use of images and copyright.

The workshop will make students measure themselves directly with the analysis of the snapshots of the major photoreporters and the most significant magazines, enabling them to read them also in relation to the era, the economy, the publishing market, figurative art and the history of the mentality of the societies in which they were taken, so as to contribute to consolidating their overall knowledge of the modern and contemporary age.

Dondero, Mario with Giordana, Emanuele. Lo scatto umano. Viaggio nel fotogiornalismo da Budapest a New York. Bari: Laterza, 2017

Sontag, Susan. Regarding the Pain of Others. New York: Picador, 2004

Gunthert, André. L’image partagée. La photographie numérique. Paris: Textuel, 2015 (provided to students in pdf)

Pastoureau, Michel. Dizionario dei colori del nostro tempo. Milan: Ponte alle Grazie, 2018

Lucas, Uliano and Agliani, Tatiana. La realtà e lo sguardo. Storia del fotogiornalismo in Italia. Turin: Einaudi, 2016

Capa, Robert. Slightly Out of Focus. New York: Modern Library, 2001

Arnett, Peter. Preface to the essay by Alabiso, Vincent, Chuck Zoeller and Kelly Smith Tunney, eds. Flash! The Associated Press Covers the World. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1998. (provided to students in pdf)

Morris, John G. Get the Picture. A personal History of Photojournalism, University of Chicago Press, 2002

Pdf (or notes) of classroom lectures

Within a unifying evolutionary theoretical framework, the course deals with the leading topics related to the cognitive and neural underpinnings of important human faculties, providing an up-to-date overview on the state of the art and the mainlines of investigation. The course begins with an overview of ideas leading to evolutionary theory, its developments and the related key notions and mechanisms of evolution, also clearing misunderstandings related to this theory. The second part of the course will focus on the application of the evolutionary theory to psychology, through the analysis of the scientific developments of evolutionary psychology and the explanations provided to account for the development and functioning of relevant human faculties.
Overall, to explore the main adaptive functions of our minds and behavior, the course will be organized into the following contents:

- What evolution is (and isn’t)
- Key concepts of evolutionary theory (e.g., adaptation, variation, natural selection, sexual selection)
- Evolutionary steps of the origin of modern humans
- Evolutionary psychology: principles, methods of investigation, applications
- Modularity, learning and culture
- Evolutionary accounts of cooperation, conflict, emotions, language, mental illness

Pievani T. (2006). La teoria dell’evoluzione. Attualità di una rivoluzione scientifica. Il Mulino, Bologna.

Bruni D. (2017). Psicologia evoluzionistica. Dal cervello del Pleistocene alla mente moderna. Carocci editore, Roma.

The course deals with the in-depth study of the main theoretical models used for the sociological analysis of the advertising. The first part of the course aims to provide students the analytical tools necessary for analyzing the advertisements and the relationship with their target (with a special focus on the possible kinds of miscommunication that can occur at different levels). The second part of the course aims to point out the social values that an advertisement can help to convey and/or to establish in the public discourse of a certain nation or geographic area - with a specific focus on those values that from an ethical point of view may be considered more problematic for a society, as they are potentially discriminatory and detrimental of human dignity (such as racism, sexism, pollution and the systematic destruction of natural resources and the environment, the violation of human rights, speciesism, etc.). The third part of the course will analyse the deep and various transformations taking place in this field due to the influence of social media. In addition, a further specific focus will be on culture jamming and other forms of cultural resistance (such as anti-brand movements, boycotts, etc.).

One to be chosen among the following programmes:

PROGRAMME 1)
a) Barthes, Roland (1957, ediz. it. 2016), Miti d’oggi, Torino, Einaudi.
b) Moreover, the following readings:
1. Barthes, Roland (1964). Rhetoric of the Image. Image‐Music‐Text (Translation 1977). S. Heath ed., London: Fontana, pp. 32‐51.
2. Merskin, Debra (2004). Reviving Lolita? A Media Literacy Examination of Sexual Portrayals of Girls in Fashion Advertising, in “American Behavioral Scientist”. Vol. 48, pp. 119‐128.
3. Kress, Gunther and van Leeuwen, Theo (1996). Modality: Designing Models of Reality. Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design. London: Routledge, pp. 154‐174.
4. Danesi, Marcel (2013). Semiotizing a product into a brand, in “Social Semiotics”, 23:4, pp. 464-476.
5. Lekakis, J. Eleftheria (2017). Culture jamming and Brandalism for the environment: The logic of appropriation, in “Popular Communication”, 15:4, pp. 311-327.

PROGRAMME 2)
a) Barthes, Roland (1957, ediz. it. 2016), Miti d’oggi, Torino, Einaudi.
b) Moreover, the following readings:
1. Capecchi, Saveria (2011). Il corpo erotizzato delle donne negli spot pubblicitari, in POLIS, XXV, 3, pp. 393-417.
2. Danesi, Marcel (2009), Brands. Il mondo delle marche (only chapter 3 “L’immagine di marca”), Roma, Carocci.
3. Kopytoff, Igor (2005). La biografia culturale degli oggetti: la mercificazione come processo, in E. Mora (a cura di), Gli attrezzi per vivere. Forme della produzione culturale tra industria e vita quotidiana, Vita e Pensiero, Milano, pp. 77-111.
4. Packard, Vance (1957, ediz. it. 2015), I persuasori occulti (only chapters 2, 3, 4, 5), Torino, Einaudi, pp. 12-53.

The aim of the course is to provide the students with the basic notions of textual linguistics. The course will introduce the students to the main typologies of texts (narrative, argumentative, descriptive, informative), as well as to the main features of a written or oral text.


The course includes a practical part in which students can show their newly acquired abilities.

G. Fiorentino, L' italiano e le abilità comunicative. Percorso teorico-pratico, Carocci, 2022, Roma.

The course aims to provide notions and theoretical tools to promote content in the digital age. The storytelling is the fulcrum of the communication process but telling requires effective and captivating methods and strategies, able to attract the attention and interest of the interlocutors from the point of view of that "sharing" that allows you to share products, emotions, hypertexts, experiences. The course also aims to provide a general understanding of some of the most complex and problematic procedures, and at the same time also the most widespread, through which multiple communication practices unfold in the hypericonic, digital and social era.

- G. Celata, A. Marinelli CONNECTING TELEVISION. TELEVISION IN THE TIME OF THE INTERNET, Guerini Associati, 2012
- A. Bisogno, THE INVADING TV. THE REALITY OF PAIN FROM VERMICINO IN AVETRANA, Carocci, 2015
- A. Bisogno, THE STORY ON TV. IMAGE AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY, Carocci, 2011

The course is divided into three parts: 1) ideation of the thesis (development of the topic, bibliographic research, drafting of the index); 2) drafting of the thesis (general structure, construction of the text and arguments, quotes and notes, bibliography); 3) revision and presentation of the thesis (mise en page of the text, editing, images and graphics). At the end of the course the students will be able to set up and write their own thesis.

R. GUALDO, L. RAFFAELLI, S. TELVE, Scrivere all’università. Pianificare e realizzare testi efficaci, Carocci, Roma 2014.

Additional teaching materials will be provided in class.

The course will deal with the relationship between philosophy of art, myth, and mythology. In the first part, the philosophy of mythology and the myth criticism will be discussed from the perspective of the aesthetics and from a historic-philosophical vantage point. In the second part, the debate on the new mythology and possibility of a mythology of reason will be analysed. Finally, in the last part, some authors and sources of myth criticism with regard to daily or contemporary myths will be examined.

The following texts are mandatory:

Diego Lanza, Tempo senza tempo. La riflessione sul mito dal Settecento a oggi, Carocci, Roma 2017.

J. G. Herder, Iduna o il pomo del ringiovanimento, a cura di M. Latini, postfazione di M. Cometa, ETS, Pisa 2019.

Hegel (?), Schelling (?), Hölderlin (?), Il più antico programma di sistema dell'idealismo tedesco, introduzione, traduzione e commento di Leonardo Amoroso, ETS, Pisa 2009.

R. Barthes, Miti d'oggi, Einaudi, Torino 2016, pp. IX-X, 27-30, 33-38, 48-53, 57-59, 77-79, 125-126, 147-149, 157-159, 172-174, 259-265, and pp. 191-238.

This course is a conceptual-historical introduction to cognitive science. The mind that psychologists and neuroscientists are concerned with is the child of the cognitivist revolution and is therefore defined as a set of information-processing processes carried out in the brains of complex organisms. What makes the cognitivist investigation of the mind peculiar is its being suspended between two worlds: on the one hand, the ordinary image of ourselves as persons, i.e. as subjects of conscious experiences, intentional states and deliberate action (the 'naive psychology'); on the other hand, the subpersonal sphere of cerebral events, the object of neuroscience. The course aims to introduce the student to the scientific study of the mind, but always against the background of the philosophical effort to shed light on the relationships that link these different ways in which we describe ourselves.

J. Bermudez, Cognitive Science. An Introduction to the Science of the Mind. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020 (third edition).

The course introduces the relationship between language and politics, and the different dimensions of this relationship.
The course will develop with a focus on the different forms of the political space, in history and in contemporary times.

Introductory part:
2022 Handouts
F. Giardini, L'alleanza inquieta. Dimensioni politiche del linguaggio, Le lettere, 2011

Advanced part:
H. Arendt, Truth and politics (any edition)
F. Castelli, Lo Spazio Pubblico, Ediesse 2019
Ursula K. Le Guin, Bryn Mawr Commencement Address (1986)

The course introduces the different forms of social and political relations.
Further focus will concern a specific issue or author.

Introductory part:
Dispense (nuova versione 2022)
F. Giardini, I nomi della crisi (pdf disponibile on line)

Advanced part:
M. Foucault, L'ordine del discorso
Una selezione di testi brevi sul concetto di "subalternità"

The course is divided into three parts: the first part will illustrate some types of text (narrative, argumentative, descriptive) and the main characteristics of a text (both written and oral). In the second part, it will analyze how to build a clear and effective text, organizing the order of the argumentation and its practical rules (syntax, punctuation, style). The last part will be dedicated to the analysis of some types of text, in order to evaluate their clarity, style and effectiveness. At the end of the course the students will be able to elaborate texts of different types.

C. GIUNTA, Come non scrivere. Consigli ed esempi da seguire, trappole e scemenze da evitare quando si scrive in italiano, Utet, Milano 2018.

Additional teaching materials will be provided in class.

Alongside an overview of the key elements of contemporary journalism, the programme envisages the formation of working groups dedicated to the three topics on which the workshop focuses most specifically: 1) Mafias; 2) New beliefs; 3) Respect, fairness, censorship, self-censorship.

1) Facts and news (definitions, examples); newsworthiness; construction of the news
2) Speed and duration: hard, soft, breaking, slow
3) Multiplication of sources and verification tools, rights and duties of journalists
4) Investigation and reportage
5) The interview
6) Around and beyond current affairs. Comments, columns, reviews
7) Forms and styles of written journalism (paper and web)
8) Journalism through images (photo, video, instagram)
9) Journalism through voice (podcast, audioseries, radio)
10) Collective analysis of group final papers (mafias)
11) Collective analysis of final group papers (New beliefs)
12) Collective analysis of final group papers (Respect, fairness, censorship, self-censorship)

Each student should choose one topic from the three proposed and read the two books indicated for that topic:

1 Mafias
Gabriele Santoro, La scoperta di Cosa nostra, Chiarelettere 2020
Antonio Talia, Statale 106. Viaggio sulle strade segrete della ‘ndrangheta, minimum fax 2019

2 New beliefs
Graziano Graziani, Catalogo delle religioni nuovissime, Quodliber 2018
Flavia Piccinni e Carmine Gazzanni, Nella setta, Fandango 2018

3 Respect, fairness, censorship, self-censorship
Lisa Parola, Giù i monumenti? Una questione aperta, Einaudi 2022
Costanza Rizzacasa, Scorrettissimi. La cancel culture nella cultura americana, Laterza 2022

The main lines of Italy’s history from Risorgimento to the crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s. The module aims to tackle, with a reading of the long run, the most important issues in the history of Italy from Risorgimento to the crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s. Attention will be devoted to the features of the Italian political system and to the electoral events.

Alberto M. Banti, Il Risorgimento italiano, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2004.
Aurelio Lepre e Claudia Petraccone, Storia d'Italia dall'Unità a oggi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008.
Guido Formigoni, Storia essenziale dell'Italia Repubblicana, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2021.

The course will analyse the history of radio and television during the 20th century, with reference both to the Italian and the international contexts.
The course will propose a history of radio and television media in which an internal dimension (relating to technologies, broadcasting, programmes, languages, etc.) will be integrated with an external one (relating to the relationship between the mass media and the politics, economy, culture and societies of the various contexts analysed).

The course syllabus consists of the following textbooks:

- Franco Monteleone, Storia della radio e della televisione in Italia. Costume, società e politica, Marsilio, 2005 and later editions (only regarding chapters 1-8, pp. 1-267).

- Irene Piazzoni, Storia delle televisioni in Italia. Dagli esordi alle web tv, Carocci, 2014 (pp. 1-320, the whole volume).

1. General principles of neurosciences for understanding self-control and emotions.
- Brain and mind. Between biological evolution, heredity, environment and experience
- The maturation of brain circuits of emotion and voluntary control of behavior
- Attention, working memory, self-control
Exercises:
- How do you feel? Description of affective states and emotional literacy
- The experience of (dis)control of the mind

2. We become what we repeatedly do: the plasticity of the brain and behavior
- How the neuron and neurotransmission work
- Neuroplasticity and learning
- The different types of associative learning
- Construction and fixation of habits and automatisms
Exercises:
- Exploring memory
- Attention Training through focus on the breath

3. What is an emotion?
- Emotions as adaptive programs/ Emotions as constructs
- The main theories of emotion
- Human history and the evolutionary mismatch of emotional programs
Exercises:
- Basic meditation
- Well-remembered and reactivated well-being

4. The regulation of emotions
- Basic principles in the psychobiology of emotions
- Emotions and language, Recognizing and naming an emotion as implicit emotion regulation
- The different possible strategies of emotion regulation, adaptive/dysfunctional
- Learning and modification of emotional response styles
Exercises:
- Naming emotions (Strengthening emotional vocabulary)
- Introduction to body scan
- STOP technique - Stop, Take a breath, Observe, Proceed

5. Emotions and stress
- Brief history of the concept of stress, from pathophysiology to the cognitive dimensions of emotions
- The mechanisms of stress
- The impact of chronic stress on the brain and cognitive and executive functions
Exercises:
- Measuring perceived stress
- Relaxation training
- Gratitude journal


6. Cognitive training and contemplative practices. Mindfulness-based practices: scientific evidence and general introduction
- What is Mindfulness
- Risks and consequences of chronic distraction and mindlessness
- Mind wandering and negative mood
- Mindfulness and emotion regulation
- Mindfulness and neuroplasticity
Exercises:
- Basic Mindfulness Meditation
- Meditation in motion


7. Voluntary control of behavior: how it works, how it is being deplete, how it is enhanced
- The neural basis of self-control
- Attention and self-control
- Self-control and ego depletion
Exercises:
- Self-affirmation;
- Implementation intentions


8. Voluntary control of behavior: how to strengthen it
- Self-control can be trained and enhanced
- Exercise as a form of training self-control
- Ego depletion, Mindfulness and other exercises to train the "muscle" of self-control
Exercises:
- Mindfulness Meditation
- Mindfulness of emotions

9. Prosocial behaviors, cognitive empathy
- Prosocial behaviors, executive functions and self-control
- Prosocial behaviors, psychological health and well-being
- What is Cognitive empathy and its brain correlates
Exercises:
- The Reflective Listening Technique;
- Cultivating loving kindness


10. Prosocial behaviors, affective empathy and compassion
- What is affective empathy and its brain correlates
- Empathy as an embodied simulation of others' emotions
- Neuroplasticity and the prosocial brain
Exercises:
- Compassion meditation
- Feeling connected

Stefano Canali, Regolare le emozioni. Teorie e metodi per lo sviluppo e il potenziamento dell’autocontrollo. Carocci, Roma, 2021

Coord. Paolo Virno, Marco Mazzeo e Federica Giardini


The political problems of modernity illustrated by Hobbes or Spinoza can be addressed by reconstructing the logic and genealogy of the concept of "ethos." The goal of the workshop is to build a toolbox capable of analyzing what we might call the "garments of the present": the characteristic modes of behavior, the specific passions, the particular modes of social (and antisocial) interaction typical of this end of the millennium. What is the ethics of neoliberal capitalism in the 21st century?
To answer this question will require a preliminary theoretical move, to understand more clearly what is meant by "ethics." Better to be clear: the workshop will dismiss the moralistic meaning of the term (ethics as morality, a norm that establishes good and sanctions evil). For this very reason, it will be necessary to sketch a starting identikit of a notion that risks, once the moralistic option is expunged, to be elusive. A selection of excerpts from Aristotle's Ethics to a reading of an essay by linguist E. Benveniste about "the free man" in the Vocabulary of Indo-European Institutions will help to understand the intertwining of ethos and habit, a key passage for both a theory of political action and a linguistic anthropology. What, in fact, is the animal that needs habits? In need of historical-cultural forms of organizing behavior is the animal lacking specialized instincts (Gehlen), the life form that needs to produce the means of survival (Marx). What the Greeks called "ethos" could be the link between the two classical definitions of human beings: sapiens are political animals and animals that talk.
However, the term "habit" risks generating a misunderstanding, alluding to a flat, appeasing repetition that can only establish custom. The term "ethos" seems to indicate, instead, a side b of the problem, a decisive dimension that overturns the customary one so dear to the empiricist of the eighteenth century or the fashionable pragmatist of the century just past. Ethos is such only if it is able to subvert, to put into crisis, itself. As habitual, ethos is the possibility of showing the threatening and disturbing face of habit ("disturbing" a finally political Freud would call it). For this reason, the workshop will investigate two areas in which the ambivalence of ethos reaches a climax: ritual practices and the intertwining of faculties of language and world perception. The first area will be investigated thanks to a text by one of the most important philosophers of the Italian twentieth century: E. De Martino's The Magical World. Magical rituality consists in the organization of habits of crisis, in the formation of anonymous and collective ethical structures (fire ordeals, shamanic trances) capable of showing the bewildering face of rain and wind, fire and thought. The second will find proof in L. Wittgenstein's reflections (Philosophical Investigations Part II; Observations on the Philosophy of Psychology) about the so-called "bistable figures" in which it is possible to see, alternately and mutually exclusive, the face of a hare or a rabbit, two human profiles or the outline of an amphora. What if bistability, the continually possible play of reversal between figure and background, is a defining feature of ethos?
Working on these questions, the workshop will try to return to the present and its ontology. With a swaggering goal that can rely on earlier work done in the late 1980s (AAVV, Feelings of the Aldiqua, 1990): to identify some of the ethical forms typical of linguistic-financial capitalism in order to adoints its inherent possibilities for overthrow. What is the subversive rabbit lurking in the duck called "life in the neoliberal age"? What amphora emerges from the double profile that present-day enthusiasts call "lifelong learning" and "precarious work"?

A bibliographic selection will be provided by the teachers during the course of the workshop.
For now it is appropriate to indicate at least:

AAVV, Sentimenti dell'aldiqua. Opportunismo, paura, cinismo, nell'età del disincanto, Theoria 1990 (DeriveApprodi 2023)
Aristotele, Etica Nicomachea, passi scelti.
De Martino E., Il mondo magico, Bollati Boringhieri.
L. Wittgenstein, Ricerche filosofiche, parte II, Einaudi.
Virno P., Il perturbante contro Freud, in M. Mazzeo, A. Bertollini (a cura di), Sintomi. Per un'antropologia linguistica del mondo contemporaneo, DeriveApprodi 2023.

The course of ethics and cognitive sciences aims to present and discuss some basic ethical notions, focusing on the contemporary debate and on the relationship between moral philosophy and the cognitive sciences. The course includes two parts. In the first part, we will discuss some key notions in the interdisciplinary ethical debate at the interplay between moral philosophy and the cognitive sciences. Among the themes that will be discussed: free will and moral responsibility, neurolaw, the role of emotions and reasons in moral judgments, social cooperation. In the second part, we will focus on the role of unconscious psychological mechanisms in driving human behaviours.

FOR STUDENTS WHO ATTEND THE COURSE, THE PROGRAM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TEXTS:
1 – M. De Caro, M. Marraffa (2016). Mente e morale. Una piccola introduzione, Luiss University Press
2 – Parts from: G. Gigerenzer (2015). Imparare a rischiare. Come prendere decisioni giuste, Cortina; R.H. Thaler & C. Sunstein, Nudge. La spinta gentile, Feltrinelli

FOR STUDENTS WHO DO NOT ATTEND THE COURSE, THE PROGRAM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TEXTS:
1 – M. De Caro, M. Marraffa (2016). Mente e morale. Una piccola introduzione, Luiss University Press
2 – G. Gigerenzer (2015). Imparare a rischiare. Come prendere decisioni giuste, Cortina (whole text);
3 - R.H. Thaler & C. Sunstein, Nudge. La spinta gentile, Feltrinelli (whole text)

The course outlines the formation and the development of the main capitalistic economies both in Europe and out of Europe between 19th and 20th centuries.

I. The first and second industrial revolution
- The preconditions for capitalist development in modern Eastern Atlantic, Centuries 17-18th.
- Expanded commercial agricultural revolution and industrial revolution in Britain in the eighteenth century.
- The process of capitalist concentration in the nineteenth century and the second industrial revolution.
II. Economic development in the 20th century
- Industry, trade networks, financial markets on the eve of the First World War.
- The economic cycles in the post-war period
- The crisis of 1929 and national policies in the '30s.

Attending students:

G. Feliu, C. Sudrià, Introduzione alla storia economica mondiale, Padova, CADEM, 2013, capp. 1 – 11.
G. Conte, Il credito di una nazione. Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2021.

plus a further book:

F. Braudel, Espansione europea e capitalismo. 1450-1650, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2015.
L. Conte, V. Torreggiani, Istituzioni, capitali e moneta. Storia dei sistemi finanziari contemporanei, Milano, Mondadori, 2017, Introduzione + capp. 1-3.

Non-attending students (add to above-mentioned books):

M. Fornasari, La banca, la borsa, lo Stato. Una storia della finanza (secc. XIII-XXI), Torino, Giappichelli, 2017, pp. 1-154.

The course provides a survey on different authors and issues arising from Feminist Theory and feminist, queer and transfeminist movements. It involves lectures, workshops and writing activities.

Federica Castelli introduces Jane Addams
Sara Marchesi introduces Françoise d’Eaubonne
Serena Fiorletta Introduces Elsie Clews Parsons
Alessandra Chiricosta introduces Edith Garrud
Francesca Lopez introduces Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
Isabella Pinto introduces Anna L. Tsing
Angela Balzano introduces Donna Haraway
Lavinia Marziale introduces Le Reset

Workshops:
- Sex, Gender, Feminism(s)
- the (Trans)feminist City
- Feminist Manifestos
- Lucha Y Siesta

A more detailed program of the lectures will be available shortly

*An introductory text to be choosen between
- F. Castelli, R. Carocci, Femminismi. Idee, movimenti, conflitti, Novadelphi, 2021
- A. Curcio (a cura di), Introduzione ai Femminismi. Genere, razza, classe, riproduzione: dal marxismo al queer, DeriveApprodi 2021
* The handouts and bibliography related to the author/lecture chosen for the focus

The seminar addresses issues related to the territory and the city. The story of cardinal concepts such as cities, communities, habitats, nature, territory, landscapes, and projects will be presented, discussed and updated, from different perspectives: philosophy, art, political theory, sociology, history, geography, architecture, law, economics, political ecology, communication.

A selection of readings will be suggested. Eventually students will have to write and present a short paper.

The seminar addresses issues related to the territory, the environment and the city. The story of cardinal concepts such as cities, communities, habitats, nature, territory, landscapes, and projects will be presented, discussed and updated, from different perspectives: philosophy, art, political theory, sociology, history, geography, architecture, law, economics, political ecology, communication.

Different readings will be suggested.

The seminar addresses issues related to the territory and the city. The story of cardinal concepts such as cities, communities, habitats, nature, territory, landscapes, and projects will be presented, discussed and updated, from different perspectives: philosophy, art, political theory, sociology, history, geography, architecture, law, economics, political ecology, communication.

Different texts will be suggested; Eventually students have to write a short paper or make a short speech.

The first part gives an overview on the concepts of gender and sexuality, with particular regard to the social constructivist approaches, queer studies and intersectional feminism perspective. The course aims to provide students with the methodological tools to analyse communication practices in various media (whether digital or not) from a gendered perspective. The second part is dedicated to lab activities. The research lab includes working in groups and will involve students in the design of research paths on specific topics.

D. Richardson (2015), Conceptualising Gender, in V. Robinson & D. Richardson (eds), Gender and Women’s Studies, Palgrave, pp. 3-22
A. L. Tota (2008), Gender e media. Verso un immaginario sostenibile, Meltemi, Milano (Capitoli: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10)
S. Capecchi (2014), Methodological problems in gender and media research, Qual Quant, 48, pp. 837–844

The course aims to provide conceptual and historical tools around the philosophy of action, focusing on the analysis of the relationship between free will, determinism, intentionality, everyday life and the clothes of action. The first module is aimed at providing both a synthetic overview of the theories on free will in correlation also with the contemporary debate. The second module will focus on the specificity of habitual actions, which philosophy, also of analytical matrix, has only recently resumed to deal with, in a close dialogue with psychology, sociology and neuroscience. To this end, Bill Pollard's recent theory on habitual actions will be compared with elements derived from the nineteenth and twentieth century philosophical and psychological tradition, in order to identify the key elements for reflection on the relationship between action, freedom and habits.

Unit 1:
1. M. De Caro, A. Lavazza, G. Sartori (a cura di), Siamo davvero liberi? Le neuroscienze e il mistero del libero arbitrio, Torino, Codice, 2019 (limitedly to Chapters 2, 3, 4, 9 and 12)

Unit 2:
2. M. Piazza, “Credenze, disposizioni, effetti e regimi”, in Id., Creature dell’abitudine. Abito, costume, seconda natura da Aristotele alle scienze cognitive, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018, pp. 131-165 (§§ 1-5).
3. B. Pollard, “Habitual Actions”, in T. O’Connor, C. Sandis (ed. by), A Companion to the Philosophy of Action, Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp. 74-81 (an Italian translation will be provided by the teacher for educational purposes).
4. B. Pollard, “Identification, Psychology, and Habits”, in New Waves in Philosophy of Action, edited by J. Aguilar, A. Buckareff and K. Frankish, 8 New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp. 81–97 (an Italian translation will be provided by the teacher for educational purposes).

THE 2030 UNITED NATIONS AGENDA FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE TERRITORY
See the Agenda at: https://unric.org/it/agenda-2030/


The course is divided into two parts:
• 12-15 conferences on Agenda 2030 and an e-learning podcast by ASviS (Alleanza Italiana per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile)
see the ongioing programme - https://www.uniroma3.it/articoli/roma-tre-per-lo-sviluppo-sostenibile-un-corso-multidisciplinare-sullagenda-2030-anno-accademico-2021-2022-182054/

• a specific part, carried out under the supervision of the teacher, to deepen particular topics or objectives of the Agenda through selected readings and the development of a written paper

FOR ORGANIZATIONAL REASONS, YOU ARE REQUESTED TO REPORT THE INTEREST FOR THE COURSE (federica.giardini@uniroma3.it)

E-learning teaching module prepared by ASviS (Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development) https://asvis.it/
Selected bibliography agreed with the teacher
Relativamente all'Agenda 2030, si consiglia di prendere visione di:

Introduzione: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geG9qxXTvmE&list=PLc_XFSGMW0SIhCmt_BsOcCJ_izzb5FpOs&index=1&ab_channel=Universit%C3%A0degliStudiRomaTre

Obiettivo 6: https://unric.org/it/obiettivo-6-garantire-a-tutti-la-disponibilita-e-la-gestione-sostenibile-dellacqua-e-delle-strutture-igienico-sanitarie/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s24JtwbQxAA&list=PLc_XFSGMW0SIhCmt_BsOcCJ_izzb5FpOs&index=4&ab_channel=Universit%C3%A0degliStudiRomaTre

Obiettivo 14: https://unric.org/it/obiettivo-14-conservare-e-utilizzare-in-modo-durevole-gli-oceani-i-mari-e-le-risorse-marine-per-uno-sviluppo-sostenibile/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7C0XpbuFyM&list=PLc_XFSGMW0SIhCmt_BsOcCJ_izzb5FpOs&index=11&ab_channel=Universit%C3%A0degliStudiRomaTre

This course provides an introduction to:
(1) the role played by reasoning in rational interaction (discussions, exchanges of theses), in the solution of problems of logic and mathematics, and the consequence of a lack of adequate reasoning procedures in these areas;
(2) ratioanl argomentation and the logical structure underlying valid arguments;
(3) a rigorous approach to deductive reasoning, based on the formal tools provided by propositional and quantified (deductive) logic.
The course also wishes to alert participants of the consequences of a lack of a rational course in the context of mass communication, information society, and online interaction, while developing the ability to correctly apply the basic rules of reasoning that are distinctive of deductive reasoning.

The course will apply, as far as possible, a `bottom-up' approach: from reasoning problems, to the tools required to solve them, to the theories in which such tools are defined, understood, and discussed. The course is divided into two modules:

Module A: It will approach and discuss the definition of an argument and of a good argument, the role played by arguments in our reactions to disagreement and in rational discussions, and the rational strategies for reacting to disagreement. It will then focus on deductive reasoning and on propositional logic in particular. In this context the course will introduce and discuss the basic rules of reasoning of propositional logic and it will discuss the notion of derivability, introduce the procedures for building a formal language, it will explore the semantics of propositional logic, the notions of logical consequence and validity, and the possible connections between derivability, logical consequence, and validity.

Module B: It will introduce the notion of a system of rules and that of an axiomatics system, together with the notions of soundness and completeness, and it will then focus on natural deduction and its soundness and completeness with respect to the semantics of classical propositional logic. It will then present basic facts, notions, and definitions of set theory, which are indispensible when it comes to an understanding of quantified logic. After that, the course will focus on quantified logic, by explaining the way in which quantified logic 'reads' predicates and quantifiers (expressions like 'Every' and 'Some'), it will introduce basic rules for reasoning with the quantifiers, and it will introduce the semantics of quantified logic. The course will then discuss soundness and completeness of natural deduction for quantified classical logic with resepct to the semantics of quantified classical logic. Russell paradox will also be introduced and discussed.

The achievement of 12 CFU requires presenting the program of both modules; achievement of 6 CFU requires presenting the program of one of the two modules only.

Main texts:

Critical Thinking. Un’introduzione, a cura di D. Canale, R. Ciuni, A. Frigerio, G. Tuzet, Egea, Milano 2021
(Capitoli 1 - 5).
E. J. Lemmon. Elementi di Logica, Laterza, Roma 2021

Institutional part on the general history of the sciences of the mind:
I) History of science and history of psychology 1. Why study the history of the sciences of the mind 2. Historiography of science: continuism and scientific revolutions 3. Normal science and paradigms 4. Historiography of psychology and neuroscience
II) The long philosophical past 1. The first psychological problems 2. The psychology of classical thought 3. Psychology from classical thought to Christianity 4. From the Arabs to the Renaissance 5. The change in the conception of man with Humanism and renaissance 6. Descartes 7. Rationalism and empiricism 8. From Descartes to the "idéologues" 9. The Kantian Interdiction
III) The birth of experimental psychology: from Helmholtz to Wundt 1. The birth of experimental psychology 2. Helmholtz: specific nervous energy and unconscious inference 3. The phenomenological innatism of Ewald Hering 4. Wilhelm Wundt and physiological psychology 5. Titchener and North American structuralism
IV) The reaction to Wundt in Europe and America 1. Brentano and the Brentanians 5. American functionalism, between evolutionism and pragmatism
V) The psychology of Gestalt 1. The beginnings 2. The laws of Gestalt 3. Isomorphism 4. The field model 5. Rise and diaspora
VI) The psychodynamic perspective and psychoanalysis 1. Introduction 2. From the organic conception to the psychodynamic conception of mental illness 3. Janet's theory 4. Psychoanalysis from Freud to the 50s 5. Jung's theory 6. Adler's theory 7. Themes of psychoanalysis of the late twentieth century and new themes 8. Phenomenological psychiatry 9. Personality theories 10. Integrated models between health and pathology of the mind
VII) The behaviorist perspective I. Introduction 2. American psychology at the beginning of the century: structuralism and functionalism 3. Behaviorism from Watson to the 50s 4. Skinner and the behaviorist utopia 5. Operationism in psychology 6. Personality, psychopathology and social learning in the behaviorist perspective
VIII) The cognitive perspective 1. Introduction 2. The study of cognitive processes: from the Würzburg school to Bartlett 3. The theories of intelligence 4. Theories of psychic development 5. Piaget's theory 6. Probabilistic and ecological theories of mental processes 7. Cognitivism 8. Cognitive science
IX) The historical-cultural perspective 1. Introduction 3. The historical-cultural theory of the mind from Vygotsky to the 60s 4. The theory of activity 5. Social constructionism. Cultural psychology
X) The biological and neuroscientific perspective 1. Introduction 2. Animal and comparative psychology. Ethology 3. Research on brain functions at the beginning of the twentieth century 4. Bechterev's reflexology 5. Pavlov's theory of higher nervous activity 6. Holistic theories of the functioning of the mind and brain in the early twentieth century 7. The neuroconnectionism of Hebb 8. Research on brain function and behavior: 1950-70 9. The theory of brain functional systems of Lurija 10. Cognitive, affective and social neuroscience.
XI) The contemporary debate 1. Crisis of theories or crisis of psychology 2. Empirical verification in psychology 3. Psychology of common sense and alternative psychology 4. The primacy of neuroscience 5. The discomfort of psychotherapy 6. Psychology and contemporary society.

monograph part:
Mind, body and biological evolution: between adaptations and diseases
This part will outline the history of evolutionary conceptions of the mind, the mind/body relationship, and evolutionary theories on the causes and processes of mental and psychosomatic diseases

for the institutional part
Pike R. (2013). History of psychology: an introduction. Rome-Bari: Laterza (chapters: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5 paragraphs 5.1 and 5.5; 6).
Mecacci L. (2011). History of twentieth-century psychology. Rome-Bari: Laterza (chapters: 3; 4; 5; 6 paragraphs 1,3,4,5; 7; 8).

The course will first of all offer an overview of the main aesthetic categories - from beautiful to ugly, from interesting to Kitsch, from sublime to horror and terror - in order to assess their relevance in contemporary artistic practices. In addition, the conception of the classical and of beauty in G.W.F. Hegel's philosophy of art will be explored.

1.F. Iannelli: Dissonanze contemporanee. Arte e vita in un tempo inconciliato. Quodlibet 2010 (up to p. 206).
S. Settis. Il futuro del classico, EINAUDI, Turin, 2004.

3a.G.W.F. Hegel, Aesthetics. Winter semester 1820/21 (manuscript by Wilhelm von Ascheberg and Willem Sax van Terborg) edited by F. Iannelli and M. Farina, with translations by G. Schimmenti, E. Caramelli, F. Pitillo, M. Farina, F. Iannelli, Markus Ophaelders, Giulia Battistoni, Elena Nardelli, Paolo D'Angelo, F. Campana, Orthotes, Naples 2023, in press (only the part on classical art).

OR

3b.G.W.F. Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of Art. The Hotho transcript of the 1823 Berlin Lectures, ed. by R.F. Brown, together with an introduction by A. Gethmann-Siefert, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014 (only the section "the Classical art form"), p. 311-330.

The Shoah into the contemporary debates

V. Pisanty, I guardiani della memoria e il ritorno delle destre xenofobe, Bompiani, Milano 2020
P. Levi, I sommersi e i salvati, Einaudi, Torino 2007.
I. Kertész, Essere senza destino, Feltrinelli, Milano 2014.

Film
S. Spielberg, Schindler’s List (1993).
E. Finkiel, La douleur (2017).

Note: It is advisable to take the Literature and Visual Arts I and Literature and Visual Arts II exams in a single test. In this case the examination materials for the Literature and Visual Arts II module include only:

V. Pisanty, I guardiani della memoria e il ritorno delle destre xenofobe, Bompiani, Milano 2020
P. Levi, I sommersi e i salvati, Einaudi, Torino 2007.

The Shoah between testimony and narration
(Second Semester)

Note: It is not possible to take Literature and Visual Arts II without having taken Literature and Visual Arts I.

V. Pisanty, I guardiani della memoria e il ritorno delle destre xenofobe, Bompiani, Milano 2020
P. Levi, I sommersi e i salvati, Einaudi, Torino 2007.
I. Kertész, Essere senza destino, Feltrinelli, Milano 2014.

Film
S. Spielberg, Schindler’s List (1993).
E. Finkiel, La douleur (2017).

Note: It is advisable to take the Literature and Visual Arts I and Literature and Visual Arts II exams in a single test. In this case the examination materials for the Literature and Visual Arts II module include only:

V. Pisanty, I guardiani della memoria e il ritorno delle destre xenofobe, Bompiani, Milano 2020
P. Levi, I sommersi e i salvati, Einaudi, Torino 2007.

Information theory and coding, elaboration and data structuring.
Introduction to programming languages, in particular the Python language and the NLTK tool

slides and handouts available on the course webpage https://sites.google.com/view/intro-info-rm3/home