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Educational objectives

The main learning objective of the course is to help students acquire a sufficiently broad knowledge of Business English, developing those language skills, strategies and tools necessary to enhance their individual problem-solving ability in interpreting English specialized texts and documents. Such knowledge is acquired by consolidating all four language skills in English (listening, speaking, reading and writing) as well as by focusing on the main phonological, morphosyntactic and lexical features of the English language.
1. Knowledge and learning: The course will start at a general English B1 intermediate level and should reach a B2 level, especially with regard to the analysis of specialised texts and materials. Students are therefore expected to have an intermediate level of English at the beginning of the course.
2. Ability to apply knowledge acquired: Students are encouraged to study the theoretical aspects of the language and do various types of exercises (such as reading-comprehension, listening-comprehension, matching, fill in the gaps, translation, etc.). This allows them to apply their theoretical knowledge through the use of specific study techniques and exercises. Intensive and extensive reading of English texts will be completed by good mastering of business specialized terminology and by ENGITA translation of business articles, papers, reports, texts and documents.
3. Students’ ability to evaluate texts: Students are particularly encouraged to become autonomous learners and to develop their critical abilities in the analysis of various types of texts and their content. They should be able to assess their own performance and that of their fellow students. Students will be given the language and cultural tools to understand English texts and documents dealing with economic issues.
4. Communicative ability: Through an interactive learning approach, students are encouraged to actively participate in class activities with written and/or oral presentations and discussions. This will help to improve their communication skills in English and to develop and apply what they have learnt during the course.
5. Student learning autonomy: By the end of the course, students will be expected to have acquired a good level of specialized language. This knowledge will allow them to understand specialized texts, to produce texts and to communicate efficiently by using appropriate English forms both in academic and job contexts. These tools are also intended to encourage students to become autonomous learners so that they can progress in the acquisition of specialized English terminology on their own. Moreover, these tools will be particularly useful to students in their future work environment.

Educational objectives

The aim of the course is to provide the basic quantitative toolkit needed for economic modelling. A peculiar attention will be paid to two main interrelated aspects: by one side, rigorous treatment of the methodologies; by the other side, proper description of the economic contexts where quantitative methods can be efficiently applied.

In the context of the Dublin descriptors, the aim of the course is to achieve the following
targets:

First Dublin descriptor: a fruitful attendance of the course would lead to a deep
comprehension of the quantitative methods for economic modelling, along with the ability of employing them.
Second Dublin descriptor: students are expected to have a critical view of quantitative methods for economics and the ability of translating real economic problems into mathematical language, with the final aim of analyzing and solving them.
Fifth Dublin descriptor: students will be endowed with a reasoning framework which will facilitate the learning of the quantitative courses of their academic plan.

Educational objectives

The course introduces the students to the fundamental principles of the Italian and European legal systems and those of certain liberal democratic systems, with particular attention to the structure and functioning of institutions, the distribution of powers and fundamental rights.
Starting with the study of the Constitution of the Italian Republic, the course analyses the main constitutional bodies (Parliament, Government, President of the Republic, Regions, Constitutional Court), the form of parliamentary government, the organization of territorial autonomy and the principles of the rule of law. At the same time, it offers an overview of the historical, legal and institutional evolution of the European Union, with reference to the fundamental treaties, the European institutions (Commission, Parliament, Council, Court of Justice) and the relationship between EU law and national law, as well as some particularly relevant liberal democratic systems (Germany, France, Spain, United Kingdom, United States).
The main learning objectives are understanding the structure and principles of the Italian and European constitutional systems as well as the mechanisms of public institutions, acquiring a basic understanding of the hierarchy of sources, fundamental rights and the relationship between legal systems and to develop critical skills in the analysis of legal texts and case law.

Educational objectives

Knowledge and understanding: students will be able to understand the functioning of market economic systems, both at the micro and at the macro level.
Applying knowledge and understanding: students will be able to use their knowledge to interpret issues related to current industrialized economies.
Making judgement: students will develop the ability to critically evaluate the current economic debate.
Communication skills: students will develop the ability to present and discuss basic micro- and macroeconomic theories.
Learning skills: students will be able to learn abstract analyses of economic problems, based on systems of equations and graphical representations.

Educational objectives

The course aims to introduce students to a quantitative way of observing and analyzing the reality that sourrounds us. The statistical methodology will be presented focusing on the applicative aspects using noumerous examples. At the end of course the student will be able to use this metodology to stydy and understanding the collective phenomena of greatest interest for his course of study.

Educational objectives

General objectives: Provide students with suitable knowledge of the statistical methodologies useful for the applications in economics, from a theoretical as well as an applied point of view.
Specific Objectives: provide students with the basic notions of probability, the underpinnings of statistical inference and its role as a tool to draw conclusions on population parameters based on sample data. Specifically, students will learn how to obtain an estimator and how to assess its properties, the theory of hypothesis testing, will be able to discriminate between the two types of errors and to evaluate the power of a statistical test procedure, and will know the theory of the linear regression model.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
Upon completion of the course, the students will be able to formalize a real data problem using the language of statistics, to identify the inferential question and to pick the most appropriate estimation and hypothesis testing procedures.
They will be able to conduct their own analyses and build a regression model using a statistical program.
Two lab sessions focused on the analysis of a case study will be conducted; after that, students will draft a short report describing the main findings and conclusions. This is intended to consolidate their ability to apply knowledge and understanding and to develop their communication skills.
Learning skills: an essential bibliography will be made available to allow self-learning of new notions and more advanced techniques, especially micro and macro economic models.

Educational objectives

The student is obliged to fulfill the 12 credits relating to the "Activities chosen by the student" through the following options:
●       1 exam (out of thirty) of 9 credits and 1 seminar activity of 3 credits organized by the Degree Course Council (with eligibility)
●       1 exam (in thirtieths) of 12 credits
For a satisfactory completion of the economic training, it is recommended to use 9 credits to include in one's "Training Path" at least another of the 3 elective courses of the third year, 2 of the following 3 courses: Statistics and International Finance, Sustainability Indicators and Inequality, Quantitative Methods for the Analysis of Time Series.
The choice of courses must be communicated through the wording of the "Training path" on the student's personal Infostud page.
The dates by which the aforementioned path must be completed by the student will be communicated on the website of the Department of Social and Economic Sciences.
The student will be able to fulfill the 12 credits starting from the first year of enrolment.

Educational objectives

The course is an intrdocution to macroeconomics, which seeks to understand the what is behind the observed dynamics of several aggregate economic variables: gross domestic product, national income, consumption, aggregate saving, investment, interest rates, money, the capital stock.
We will discuss how economists have tried to answer questions such as:
What determines economic growth, wealth and long-run welfare?
Why modern economic systems are subject to recurrent economic cycles, with recessions and expansions?
What determines unemployment and inflation? Which economic policies (monetary or fiscal) should be adopted to increase output and contain unemployment and inflation?

Educational objectives

The goal of the course is it, to cover the main institutions of the italian private law and general theory of the law, in order to give the necessary knowledge and the adequate instruments also to “non – law” students.
Specific objective Dublin 1: at the end of the course the student will know the main private law institutes, the main jurisprudential orientations, the theories of the most recent doctrine and the main debates, above all in the subject matter of recent legislative interventions.
Specific objective Dublin 2: upon completion of the course the student is able to apply the acquired knowledge in a competent and reflective way; it can support legal arguments and is able to solve problems typical of the subject dealt with.
Specific objective Dublin 3: upon completion of the course the student is able to carry out comprehensive reflections on topics of private law pertaining to social reality, to independently develop judgments on issues that involve ethical evaluations, as in the case of maternity techniques surrogate or advance treatment directives.
Specific objective Dublin 4: upon completion of the course the student is be able to express the concepts learned, also communicating to non-legal practitioners the conclusions to which he / she has reached by applying the concepts learned in the course.
Specific objective Dublin 5: upon completion of the course the student is able to continue in a specialized higher level learning, having acquired a solid foundation for the preparation and processing of the legal material.

Educational objectives

The aim of the course is to provide the basic analytical tools for the study of the microeconomic behavior of economic agents (consumers, firms as well as other organizations) and their interactions, with particular attention to environmental sustainability. In the first part of the course, lasting four weeks, the methodological framework and the main basic conceptual categories with which microeconomics studies the phenomena of consumer choice will be illustrated.
In the second part, lasting eight weeks, students will be introduced to modern Game Theory methods for the analysis of the strategic choices of economic agents. In particular, in this part of the course the main economic applications concern oligopolistic markets and the strategic choices of large companies, as well as rational agents interacting with complete or incomplete information. Further application will concern the international environmental agreements studied by a strategic approach. The learning method of the course will be active and students will be asked to interact by carrying out exercises and making short presentations in class.
The knowledge acquired in the course is essential for orienting oneself in the problems of modern economies and in the problems of choice present in the analysis of socio-economic and environmental phenomena.

Educational objectives

In terms of knowledge and understanding, the course is aimed at introducing the general structure of any business system included in a broader general economic system. The course aims to provide students with a basic knowledge of the private company, profit and non-profit, and of the public administration with regard to characteristics, operation, cost-effectiveness and sources of financing. It also aims to introduce the notions of income and capital also through the use of quantitative-accounting tools. At the end of the course the student will have acquired the skills of critical analysis of the main business economics issues and the awareness of the main economic, social and environmental responsibilities of a manager.

Educational objectives

General objectives: Provide students with suitable knowledge of the statistical methodologies useful for the applications in economics, from a theoretical as well as an applied point of view.
Specific Objectives: provide students with the basic notions of probability, the underpinnings of statistical inference and its role as a tool to draw conclusions on population parameters based on sample data. Specifically, students will learn how to obtain an estimator and how to assess its properties, the theory of hypothesis testing, will be able to discriminate between the two types of errors and to evaluate the power of a statistical test procedure, and will know the theory of the linear regression model.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
Upon completion of the course, the students will be able to formalize a real data problem using the language of statistics, to identify the inferential question and to pick the most appropriate estimation and hypothesis testing procedures.
They will be able to conduct their own analyses and build a regression model using a statistical program.
Two lab sessions focused on the analysis of a case study will be conducted; after that, students will draft a short report describing the main findings and conclusions. This is intended to consolidate their ability to apply knowledge and understanding and to develop their communication skills.
Learning skills: an essential bibliography will be made available to allow self-learning of new notions and more advanced techniques, especially micro and macro economic models.

Educational objectives

The objective is to present an overview of the main theories of public finance, both foundational and contemporary, including theories of fiscal decentralization.
The course is of particular value to those intending to enter civil service and a variety of other professions.

The more specific objectives of the course are:
a) Illustration of the motivations and tools of the public intervention in the economy, with reference to the logic of the collective choices in public finance, also through the use of graphs.
b) Knowledge of the methodological aspects of the analysis of public finance policy.
c) Application of the economic theories to public finance issues
d) Development of individual judgement and critical ability to understand to understand fiscal phenomena.
e) Development of a technical language, adequate to express economic concepts.
f) Acquisition of learning skills necessary to deepen and update the relevant issues, also using different references, and to undertake subsequent studies.

Educational objectives

The main objective of the course is to teach students not only basic notions of economic relations among countries and economies, but also methodologies that are useful to understand reasons and benefits of international trade and international financial flows. Students are assumed to acquire the capability of applying the adequate formal economic models to the situations related to international economic relations.

Educational objectives

The general objectives of this course are to provide the student with the knowledge and the understanding of the principles of modern financial theory, of the organization of securities markets, and of risk/return profile of the most important financial instruments traded on capital markets (namely, equities, bonds and derivatives). Moreover, this course underlines the peculiar role of different financial intermediaries on financial system and in the real economy. In addition, the course describes the major theoretical contributions on corporate finance with a particular focus on the imbalances in the financial structure of Italian companies. Finally, this course describes critically the recent developments in the field of regulation and international supervision on the banking system (in particular for European banking system).
The specific objectives of the course are:
1) in-depth knowledge of the analytical and graphical tools used in the fundamental analysis of securities and in the general equilibrium models of the capital markets;
2) the application of the financial methodologies learned to the evaluation of the risk-return profile of the securities;
3) the critical and judgmental capacity regarding the validation of the financial theories and the choices of policy made by the regulatory authorities in terms of global financial stability;
4) the ability to communicate what has been learned through a technical financial language appropriate to the discipline;
6) the ability to continue independently the study and in-depth analysis of current financial issues.

Educational objectives

The ultimate goal is to provide students with guidance on how to estimate causal effects and how to obtain accurate predictive estimates, taking into account the available data and the objectives of the research.
Another goal is to familiarize students with the use of statistical software (particularly R) in order to obtain empirical estimates.

Educational objectives

Sapienza promotes and supports curricular and extracurricular internship activities in Italy and abroad for the benefit of its students and graduates. The aim is to offer young people concrete opportunities for comparison with the world of work and thus favoring their future professional choices.

The Traineeships Sector of the Educational Offer and Right to Study Area, also through the dedicated IT platform JOBSOUL Sapienza, takes care in particular of the following services and obligations:
- manages the stipulation of agreements for traineeships with public and private bodies, both in Italy and abroad;
- provides assistance and information to users, also for the use of the IT platform, both in presence and via email and telephone;
- establishes relationships with other public bodies that deal with active employment policies with the internship tool (Regions, Employment Centers);
- signs agreements to provide the pre-selection service for applications for notices issued by Public Bodies (Bank of Italy, IVASS, CRUI FOUNDATION) aimed at activating traineeships.

Educational objectives

The training course ends with the discussion of a topic assigned a month in advance, by a special committee of teachers, in a scientific disciplinary sector that has been examined. The discussion must make use of audiovisual tools. This final test also includes the preparation of a short text in Italian (no more than 30 pages) as well as an abstract (no more than three pages) written in English. The jury will be able to award a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 5 points from the starting score calculated by the arithmetic average of the marks of the exams foreseen by its course with the addition of a 2 point bonus for the students who will participate in the Erasmus plus project , if scholarship winners, and with the addition of further points depending on the time frame within which the title will be acquired (details are available on the Faculty website http://www.spsc.uniroma1.it/didattica/esame- graduation).