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This course is an exploration of the history of Greek and Roman ideas, which formed the modern world. In the first half of the sessions focuses on Greek ideas like democracy, philosophy, hospitality, fair play, athletics, drama, eros and love and how these ideas have been generated through specific Greek cultural systems or artistic modes of representation (literature, painting, sculpture, theatre). How were these ideas born and what is their influence in the modern world? How does Greek literature relate to these ideas? And more generally, what is the relationship between these ideas and the Greek life and thought? In the second half of the sessions, students examine Roman ideas, and the course focuses on ideas like fame, liberty, virtue, justice, epicureanism, stoicism, citizenship, republicanism, imperialism, public order, and how they have been generated through specific Roman cultural systems or artistic modes of representation (literature, painting, sculpture, theatre). The sessions then examine the relevance of these ideas to modern politics and society.

Human security is a new approach to security, which sheds light on non-traditional threats, and allows us to explore ways to safeguard people’s vital freedoms from fear and wants. This course will begin by considering what human security means, and how useful the concept is in understanding the contemporary security challenges, and how it intersects with various issue areas on the global security agenda. A specific emphasis will be given the themes of protection and empowerment of vulnerable people caught up in violent conflict and natural disaster. The course will conclude by examining the relevance of the human security approach to theories and practices of peacebuilding and natural disaster management. 

A new approach to security, human security has become more prominent in the global arena during the post-Cold War era.  This course begins by considering what human security means; how useful the concept is in understanding the contemporary security challenges, and how it intersects with various issue areas on the global security agenda. Specific emphasis will be given on the themes of protection and empowerment of vulnerable people caught up in violent conflict. The course concludes by examining the relevance of the human security approach to theories and practices of peacebuilding. 

Korea began to adopt Western culture in the nineteenth century and developed their own hybridized music culture into the twentieth-first century. This class examines contemporary Korean musical culture alongside the history of Korea and explores Korean music culture as a global phenomenon. The course covers Korean aesthetic and sensibility in Korean musical culture with select examples from Korean traditional music, Korean’s children music, Korean arts songs of the Colonial Korea period, popular music (K-pop), Korean drama music, Korean film music, and K-classical music.

This course examines physiology, focusing how the major organ systems work in the human body. Topics include cellular, neural, cardiovascular, respiratory, renal physiology, and provides a study of the basic and essential mechanisms to maintain life from cell to human.

This course examines the importance of health and human capital to individual well-being and economic growth. It evaluates how the natural, social, economic, and political environments affect the accumulation and stock of health and human capital and the ways in which health and human capital interact with one another. It documents the considerable inequality in health and human capital across society and considers ways in which policy may help reduce this inequality.