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This introduces Korean traditional music—genres, aesthetics, and performance styles. The course uses music as a medium through which we can better understand Korean culture, and makes use of audiovisual materials and live performance to enhance course content. The course is open to both Korean and International students who have an interest in Korean traditional and contemporary musical cultures.

This course considers development processes in the light of how they are shaped by and impact gender discourses and relations. The course covers key concepts in the analysis of social relations between women and men in different cultural, economic and political contexts. This includes examining the nature of gender inequality and of the household as a social construct, and reviewing concepts of power and empowerment. While concerned with providing a theoretical and conceptual grounding by reviewing debates on the household and the gender division of labor, the course is organized around substantive and policy topics related to poverty, labor markets, women's employment, migration, and globalization..

This course is an in-depth survey of the traditional Chinese philosophies, mainly the “three teachings” -- Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism. This survey focuses on the distinctive concepts of Humanism and Nature in these traditions, which accept “the unity of Nature and Humanity." Based on traditional Chinese ideas of "the Unity of Nature and Humanity," this survey course also explores the possibility that these traditions offer intellectual support for ethics of the environment and climate change, two major issues facing humanity today.  

This course provides a comprehensive understanding of processes in terrestrial ecosystems, and of effects of global change on processes and organisms. The focus is on carbon, water, and nutrient cycling between plants, soil organisms, soil, and atmosphere. This includes lessons in radiation and energy balance, photosynthesis, respiration, water use efficiency, and measures of stress, at leaf, plant, and canopy level. Belowground processes as plant nutrient uptake and microbial turnover, mobilization and immobilization of nutrients, plant-microbe-animal interactions, plant-soil-atmosphere interactions, rhizosphere processes and mycorrhizal function are also addressed, with focus on the importance of climate and anthropogenically induced climatic changes. Species/community effects on ecosystem processes and temporal dynamics are also addressed. Field and laboratory studies are performed and the results are presented orally and in reports. Participants present one or two journal papers with relation to the subjects taught in the lectures, including effects of global change on ecosystems.

This seminar explores the relationship between language and cognition, investigating a variety of theoretical models and evaluating the empirical evidence collected to substantiate these models. The theoretical perspectives taken fall primarily within the sub-disciplines of psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and anthropological linguistics.

This course introduces students to the field of perception with a special emphasis on vision. Perception is central to our daily interactions with the world: we can effortlessly navigate through a city, comprehend fast movie trailers, and find a friend in a crowd through visual and auditory perception. While we take the rich perceptual experience for granted, visual perception involves a series of complicated cognitive processes beyond just opening our eyes. The course covers both existing theoretical frameworks and recent research findings in the field of visual perception. We will explore questions such as: How do we see the visual world? Do we see and remember correctly what’s in the physical world? How many items can we keep track of and remember at a time? How is the visual system structured and what are the neural mechanisms underlying visual perception?  

Prerequisites: Intro Psychology & Experimental Methods in Psychology. Knowledge of experimental design is necessary for this course