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This course covers the fundamental principles of computation, including formal languages, abstract machines (automata), and computability theory

This course critically explores principal drivers behind the erosion of natural capital and resilience of ecosystems in light of them. Students take a solutions-based approach for how best to deal with habitat transformation, biodiversity loss, climate change, overexploitation of natural resources and contamination. Solutions incorporate a biological understanding of local and global impacts, drawing from the physical and life sciences, and extend it to actual and potential political, economic, and socio-cultural instruments appropriate and effective to address threats and changes to global biodiversity and ecosystem health.

This course covers the economic history of postwar Japan as well as a wide range of current issues. The course discusses the history and structure of Japanese economy as well as its role in the international economy. The course also addresses future challenges and the activities of Japanese multinational firms.

This course introduces selected Japanese masterpieces in the hand-scroll (emaki ) format from the late-classical and medieval periods, while referencing other types of narrative imagery. The course considers how scholars approach these images from a variety of perspectives; how historical developments shape images and are reshaped by them, and visual storytelling techniques.

This course analyzes the basic theoretical framework of global marketing based on cultural differences. The course provides the tools to answer questions such as, Why has Korean music been so successful in the global market? Why do people in Japan eat Kentucky Fried Chicken on Christmas? 

Courses in Marketing (undergraduate and MBA) and Consumer Behavior (undergraduate) are relevant to this cousre

This course is an introduction to research in environmental sociology with an emphasis on the social processes, dynamics and institutions that are influential in contemporary environmental crises. It looks at the social dimensions of our natural world and considers how our social life shapes our ecological life (and vice versa!). It will focus particularly on how environmental problems are created by social drivers and experienced unequally. Topics include production and consumption and its environmental effects, inequality and environmental risk, and social movements for environmental justice. 

This course examines the relationship between the film and their directors regarding their creativity, aesthetics and influences. It focus on different directors from different eras, origin and countries. The emphasis of the director's effort and beliefs together with their professionalism and techniques will also be discussed.

This survey course examines the visual and material culture of Korea from prehistoric times through the Joseon dynasty (1392-1910). It presents key artifacts and artistic traditions in a chronological framework, exploring them within their historical, cultural, religious, and social contexts. While the lectures primarily focus on the diverse works of art that emerged within the Korean peninsula, attention will also be given to the transcultural dynamics of East Asian art history. 

The course explores economic policy in the global economy. Students study the causes and consequences of international economic integration, focusing on how globalization affects the trade-offs that shape policy. Both theoretical and empirical analyses are considered. Key topics include international trade, capital flows, migration, technology diffusion, taxation in the global economy, and the relationship between globalization and national sovereignty.