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This class, geared towards first year students, deals with general and holistic fundamentals about the variety of interior architecture and built environments for understanding and creating spaces. This course aims to encourage freshmen students growing multidisciplinary perspectives, theories, and practical knowledge necessary to design spaces, and to promote creative and analytic approaches for further works. Course topics include organizing thoughts for space, making a close observation of the spatial environment we live in, understanding what space is and how it is organized, widening our view of the spatial environment we are experiencing, empowering the ability of analyzing the spaces, understanding the creative design process, experiencing the actual construction process, and forming philosophical grounds to create a good space. The is an introductory lecture for learning residential environment and interior architecture and provides the foundation for further university study.

This course introduces the subject of calculus, including the study of limits and derivatives, and their applications, which is essential and crucial for advanced statistic courses, such as probability theory, mathematical statistics. Specific topics include the limits of functions, derivatives of algebraic, trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic functions and their inverses and the definite integral and its application to area problems. Also, included are applications of the derivative including maximum and minimum problems, and curve sketching using calculus, techniques of integration, indeterminate forms and infinite series.

This course examines needs and inter-dependencies of all beings; the diverse ways humans meet their needs through material and non-material means and the ecological and social consequences of this for humans and other beings; the economic, social and political norms that shape the ways we meet our needs; and the ethical and disciplinary frameworks through which the sustainability of human-environmental relationships can be assessed.

This course is for students who have no previous knowledge of German and offers an introduction to German language and culture. Students develop competence in a range of everyday tasks in German. The course focuses on oral communication and on acquiring essential listening and speaking abilities. Students also develop and practice basic reading and writing techniques. The stimulus material (oral, aural, and written) provides an introduction to German grammar and syntax and contributes to giving the students an insight into aspects of German life and culture. 

This course examines the theatrical and performative modes of writing, including writing delivered live by a performer or performers in a theater, encountered by a seated or mobile audience, or experienced through media such as headphones or hypertext.

This course explores a cultural history of Korea through tangible and intangible heritages registered with UNESCO. Special emphasis is placed on the interplay between performance and tangible texts, trans-national interactions with neighboring states, and the construction of the cultural identity of Korea.

This course details how talk is managed in a range of professional settings, including education (e.g. teacher-student interactions), medicine (e.g. doctor-patient consultations), psychology (e.g. counseling), law (e.g. question design in courtrooms), and journalism (e.g. radio interviews). Students are exposed to interactional practices that are common to all workplaces: negotiation and resolving conflict, sources of misunderstanding, aligning with other speakers, managing topics, and different cultural practices in making sense of talk at work. Students learn how interaction is organized based on the fundamental tenets of conversation analysis: turn-taking, repair, and the sequential organization of talk.