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This course examines elements of music, musical style and the major musical forms. It covers the structure and composition of music with an emphasis on learning to become an active listener. 

This course examines major statistical techniques in analyzing categorical data. Topics include measures of association, inference for two-way contingency tables, loglinear models, logit models and models for ordinal variables. The use of related statistical packages will be demonstrated. 

This course focuses on the process and theoretical background of The European Union (EU). It explores its formation by three creative processes: deepening of the integration, enlargement of the EU, and economic transformation in former socialist countries. After introducing those processes and some theoretical background, students analyze different EU economic policies. Considering that the participants are American undergraduates, this course systematically compares and contrasts the EU and its role in the world with the USA. Preliminary knowledge of principles of microeconomics is strongly recommended, but all necessary theoretical concepts are briefly summarized as part of this course.

This course provides an introduction to the world of Fantasy Sports, covering developmental history, cultural impact, fundamentals of participation, and success strategies. 

Through lecture, discussion, and practical experience (draft and Fantasy Football league play) students gain a comprehensive understanding of Fantasy Sports and the multiple roles that fantasy sports play within the sports industry, including data and information processing, promotion, marketing, and team managing tactics among many other practical applications.

Students are required to create an account at Sleeper to participate in the league and to present an idea for fantasy sports to be used in a Korean sports league (KBO, K-League, V-League, etc.). Students will be required to work in groups and to present their ideas (e.g., point system, graphics, sponsorship, etc.) at the end of the semester.

This course helps students appreciate the philosophical foundations for conducting qualitative research and to understand why and how qualitative research is carried out in psychology. A sample of current qualitative methodologies and examples of how qualitative methods may be applied in psychological settings are provided. The student is introduced to the processes involved in making sense of qualitative data and how qualitative data can and should be analyzed. Designing qualitative research reports is also covered.

In this course students trace the socio-political, cultural, and anthropological constructions of race, racialization and ethnicity in the host location from the country's history until the present day. Reflecting the increasingly charged articulations of race, racism, and race-based grievances in the host location, students study a wide range of issues, from the lingering legacy of colonialism and decolonization (and the attendant construction of racialized thinking), to reading race and ethnicity in host location, the role of race and ethnicity in the politics of immigration and the rise of ethno-nationalism, and the state of socio-political and cultural social policies that redress racialized and ethnic inequities – from affirmative action and (postcolonial) reparations, to social justice and police reform, and the decolonization of cultural institutions and the media landscape. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach to these issues, students learn how the history and contemporary lived reality of race (relations) and ethnicity in the host location can only be understood by accessing and closely examining -- from a variety of disciplinary vantage points -- the deep cultural archive of the host location and its people. At the same time, students analyze how discourses of race that originated in the United States circulate globally, are refracted through processes of mediation, and inflect local articulations of race, ethnicity and identity.

This course looks at the interface of community involvement and (effective) governmental approaches to public health. By studying how actors in this sphere collaborate in order to identify public health needs, select appropriate responses, and implement large-scale projects, students gain understanding of the different public health issues facing communities in the host environment, and the varied approaches to public health across the globe. The course pays special attention to identifying and understanding the main actors in public health systems, how such systems and their policies are influenced, and how the implementation of public health tools are affected by cultural and religious traditions.

Students learn to read and translate basic classical Old Irish. They describe the orthography of Old Irish and how it differs from its modern counterpart, learn to analyze the grammatical structure of basic Old Irish sentences with the appropriate terminology, and to describe the concept of the "paradigm" and apply it to the grammatical analysis. The course teaches students how to recognize and explain the main differences between Old and Modern Irish, how to apply the skills of grammatical analysis acquired in the study of Old Irish to any other language, and how to use textual glossaries competently.

This course examines the role of human psychology - human thought and behavior - in the climate and biodiversity crises. Students learn about topics such as political and social identities, motivated reasoning and cognitive biases, money and power, human and social systems, morality, and the psychology of protest and civic action. 

This course examines some of the main themes and issues of Korean history and cultures since the late 1980s. We often use literature and media, including short stories, feature films, documentaries, TV, and popular music, as a vehicle for understanding contemporary Korean history, culture, and society. Among the major issues we are exploring are democratization, the legacy of national division, new generation, culture industries and hallyu, cinematic re-writing of history, IMF crisis and neoliberal culture, family and gender, narratives of women, multiculturalism, and hallyu in the digital, multi-platform era. Topics include Postwar Development of South Korea, Democratization, Minjung and Democratization Movement and New Wave Cinema, New Generation and Individualism, Sunshine Policy, The Development of Culture Industries and the Korean Wave, Discourses on the Korean Wave, Asian Financial Crisis and Its Impact on Korean Society Family and Gender Relations, Gender and Sexuality in Popular Culture, Narratives of Women, Re-writing Colonial History in Film, Multiculturalism, and Hallyu 2.0 and the Korean Wave in a Digital, Multiplatform Era.