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This project-based learning (PBL) course examines how the literary works of Han Kang, the 2024 Nobel laureate, are transformed and reimagined through digital media. Focusing on her distinctive narrative techniques, the course explores Han’s treatment of violence, trauma, and feminist resistance, with particular attention to the Gwangju Uprising and the embodied experience of her characters. Students analyze, remix, and remediate Han’s texts using digital storytelling tools and practices enriched by meta-information such as hashtags, rankings, and user comments, while critically examining the institutions and platforms that shape these technologies to engage diverse audiences. Through close reading, creative adaptation, and critical discussion, participants gain a deeper understanding of Han Kang’s poetic and experimental style, the socio-political contexts behind her writing, and the complexities of translating her work for a global readership. The course culminates in individual and collaborative digital projects highlighting the evolving relationship between contemporary Korean literature and digital culture.

This course has two main goals. The first goal is to introduce major trends in contemporary housing and the second is to envision future living spaces. The living spaces in this course include residential, recreational, commercial, working, educational, and healthcare spaces. Students attain a global perspective in contemporary living spaces; explore current living space trends and case studies; and examine major keywords for future living spaces. The final project consists of a short research study in which students envision future living spaces for various demographics, including but not limited to the elderly, young generation, dual-income families, office workers, K-12 students, patients and healthcare providers, and people with disabilities. 

No prerequisite required, but it is recommended to take undergraduate "Creating and Understanding Spaces (HID 1101)" for any introductory interior design courses. 

This foundational course provides knowledge, techniques and understanding of marketing principles. It provides students with a conceptual framework to analyze and interpret marketing phenomena and to suggest courses of action in response to marketing problems. Topics include the marketing concept, the marketing environment and the marketing mix which includes product, pricing, distribution and promotion. Other related topics include consumer behavior, market segmentation and targeting, marketing research and information system, marketing planning, implementation and control, and public issues in marketing. 

In this course, students examine Rome and the grandeur and diversity of its empire. Students explore Rome’s cosmopolitan, multi-lingual, and multi-ethnic mega-city and how this showcased Roman might, organizational efficiency, and cultural wealth through public works, monumental architecture, and consumer culture. By studying these topics, students learn the genealogy of Western urbanism and statecraft and how this empire became paradigmatic in Western Eurasia.

This course covers the principles of the computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD and CAM) used in the modern design and manufacturing industry. By introducing the mathematical background of CAD and CAM, this course provides the basics for understanding their techniques and industrial applications. Topics include CAD: geometric modelling methods for curves, surfaces, and solids; CAM: part fabrication by CNC machining based on given geometric model; Basics of CNC machining; Tool path generation in CAD/CAM (Option to introduce a CAM software to generate a CNC program for the machining of a part); and Verification of fabricated part by CNC measurement based on given geometric model. The course requires a prerequisite.

This course covers the interactions between geology and human activities and gives an overview of environmental problems and challenges in geosciences. It deals with water- and soil-resources, contaminated sediments, carbon capture and storage (CCS), the use of micropaleontology in environmental studies to establish reference conditions, impacts of mining activities, climate change from a perspective of natural variation, sustainable use of natural resources, and waste- and pollution control.

In this course, students gain in-depth knowledge of pricing and hedging of financial derivatives in equity markets, basic stochastic calculus, Ito’s formula, Black-Scholes models for European, American and path-dependent options such as Barrier, Asian and Lookback options. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

This course offers an in-depth exploration of cultural diversity in Oceania by analyzing the complex interplay among colonial encounters, postcolonial impacts, Indigenous epistemologies, and identity formation. It approaches these themes through the lens of the ocean, which has historically shaped connections, migration, trade, and cultural exchange across the region. Through theoretical discussions, case studies, ethnographic readings, and multimedia materials, the course examines how various colonial histories have influenced Indigenous societies and their ways of knowing, being, and relating.

This course develops technical composition skills and deepens artistic awareness in creating, manipulating, and analyzing music. It explores creative and technical approaches drawn from historical and contemporary art music, as well as various popular idioms. It covers melody writing, thematic development, harmonic understanding, and contemporary musical languages.

This is an intermediate English linguistics course which should be taken after studying the basics of linguistics. It provides students with the basic knowledge of English Language Teaching in secondary education in Japan from a practical point of view and investigates how one's knowledge of English (not only structural but also communicative) can be used to improve learners' abilities to use English. 

Course Prerequisites:  Enrollment in at least one or two of the introductory courses of linguistics offered at SILS (Introduction to Applications of Linguistics and Introduction to English Linguistics).