Crash courses
The Masters’ Program in Economics and Political Science (EPS) offers the following crash courses to catch up with the basic mathematics, statistics, economics, and political science principles. Courses are free of charge and open to all admitted students of the international DEMM Master Programmes. Each course is delivered through online platforms.
Attendance and completion of the crash courses is recommended to all admitted students.
Please notice that no credits (CFU) may be acquired through crash courses’ attendance and their eventual final tests.
The Mathematics 2026 crash course is now available on Khan Academy. This course covers standard topics, such as functions of a single variable, and is composed of six units (although you can skip Unit 6).
Specifically:
- Unit 1: Limits and continuity
- Unit 2: Derivatives: definition and basic rules
- Unit 3: Derivatives: chain rule and other advanced topics
- Unit 4: Applications of derivatives
- Unit 5: Analyzing functions
You can find the course at the following link: Differential Calculus.
While it is recommended to complete the course within 3 weeks, it is possible to finish it in a shorter period. By the way, we recommend you end this course before the beginning of the academic year (September 14th, 2026).
Please note that a free version of the course is available; there is no need to pay for it.
EPS students who do not meet the minimum mathematics requirements (you have received a recommendation in your admission notice to attend the Mathematics Crash Course) must submit a proof of completion of the course to eps@unimi.it.
For further questions, please get in touch with Professor Lorenzo Mercuri through this email address (lorenzo.mercuri@unimi.it). Please consider that during the summer break in August, professors and offices have limited access to e-mails, therefore we invite you to contact us after August 31st.
The crash course in Statistics is available for free before the starting of official classes from 14 September 2026, so that you can revise fundamentals online by yourself.
You can find the course at the following link: Statistics.
EPS students who have been recommended the Statistics Crash Course (you have received a recommendation in your admission notice to attend the Statistics Crash Course) must submit a proof of completion of the course. After completing the course, forward the email from Khan Academy to eps@unimi.it.
The crash course in Microeconomics is available for free before the starting of official classes from 14 September 2026, so that you can revise fundamentals online by yourself.
You can find the course at the following link: Microeconomics.
EPS students who have been recommended the Economics Crash Course (you have received a recommendation in your admission notice to attend the Economics Crash Course) must submit a proof of completion of the course. After completing the course, forward the email from Khan Academy to eps@unimi.it.
For further questions, please get in touch with Professor Vojtech Bartos at: vojtech.bartos@unimi.it
The crash course in Political Science is available for free before the starting of official classes from 14 September 2026, so that you can revise fundamentals online by yourself.
Please find here below information on the crash course in Political Science.
Teacher: Andrea Cassani
20 hrs.
Teaching mode: async lectures only, audio-video recordings and other materials are available on a dedicated Ariel website:
In order to attend this course please follow the instruction attached to this message.
Course description and syllabus:
- A science of politics?
- Political regimes
- Democracy and democratization
- Electoral systems
- Parties
- Party systems
- Governments
- Institutional veto players
- Models of democracy
- Public policies
The course builds on the following textbooks (suggested non-compulsory readings):
- Clark, William Roberts, Matt Golder, and Sona Nadenichek Golder. “Principles of Comparative Politics”. CQ Press, 2017 (3 edition).
- Caramani, Daniele (ed.). “Comparative Politics”. Oxford University Press, 2020 (5 edition)
Please note that this crash course is not organized by DEMM.
DEMM would like to thank Andrea Cassani and the UNIMI Department of Social and Political Sciences (SPS) for making this course also available to EPS students.
All EPS students who didn't take any political science course in the Bachelor (or passed it with low grades) are warmly recommended to attend this course.
Please note: if you have chosen a different master or University, you are not authorized to attend this course.
EPS students who have been recommended the Political Science Crash Course (you have received a recommendation in your admission notice to attend the Political Science Crash Course) must submit a proof of completion of the course. After completing the course, forward the email from Ariel to eps@unimi.it.