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This course examines the role of human psychology, human thought and behavior, in the climate and biodiversity crises. It explores how we got where we are, what it is about human thought and behavior and the structures and systems created that produced these crises and inactions. The course covers how the Climate Crisis is affecting human health, behavior, and well-being as well as the ways these effects are unevenly distributed across the world and the implications of this inequity. Finally, this course covers what psychology has to offer in terms of solutions and how to leverage our understanding of human thought and behavior to enact climate justice.

This interdisciplinary seminar explores how literature and film grapple with the complexities of political power, authority, resistance, and representation. Drawing from a range of historical and geopolitical contexts, the course examines how writers and filmmakers narrate, aestheticize, and challenge systems of domination, the dynamics of oppression and liberation, and the moral ambiguities inherent in political engagement. Through lectures, screenings of film excerpts, class discussions, and written assignments, students acquire critical tools to analyze how cultural productions both reflect and shape political realities. The course features close readings of literary texts and critical analyses of landmark films, including CITIZEN KANE and CASABLANCA. It examines the theatrical staging of power in Shakespeare's HENRY V and its contrasting cinematic interpretations by Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh; the construction of the Napoleonic and Lincolnian myths, from Abel Gance to Steven Spielberg; and the expression of American democratic idealism in Frank Capra's cinema. Further topics include the representation of atrocity and memory in works addressing the Holocaust, McCarthyism, the nuclear era, Watergate, the Vietnam War. Emphasis is placed on the aesthetics of authoritarianism and resistance, as well as on portrayals of the presidential figure in American and French cinema. The course interrogates the subdued complicity of the butler (Anthony Hopkins) in James Ivory's THE REMAINS OF THE DAY and explore the differences and similarities between Joseph Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS and its adaptation by Francis Ford Coppola in APOCALYPSE NOW. Throughout the semester, the course critically engages with propaganda, the narrative construction of ideology, the tension between personal conscience and collective responsibility, and the ways in which historical memory is shaped—or suppressed—by literary and cinematic forms.

This course explores the organic connection between design and theory and builds an effective and integrated design methodology by examining how design interacts with social contexts and diverse relationships.   

The course investigates how discourses traditionally considered external to the field of architecture—such as those from the social sciences, cultural studies, and environmental theory—inform, shape, and enrich architectural practice and production. 

Students learn the design principles that appear in architecture and art, and based on this, they study how to apply them to architectural forms. 

This course introduces students to the classic and current personality theories and theorists in an in-depth manner, and encourages critical evaluation and reflection. The major theories include: psychoanalytic theory, evolutionary theory, humanistic and existentialist theories, social cognitive theory, behaviorist perspectives, and biological and trait theories. Additionally, the course reviews taxonomies such as the DSM-V.

Business Simulation Game aims to help students develop management decision-making skills without running real-world risks. Students build teams to run businesses in the computer-simulated competitive market. They make various top management decisions for sequential periods, and the performance is evaluated based on multiple indices. The team that achieves the best overall performance will win the game! Also, top performers will get chance to participate the National Competition.

In collaboration with an artist/artists in residence, students will experience training and/or rehearsal and/or creative development practices geared towards public performance. Guided by the artists and lecturers, students will participate physically, conceptually, and creatively through the course of intensive workshops, framed by preparatory and post-experience seminars.

This course introduces students to the history of political thought, with a focus upon the ancient world of classical Greece. Topics include the birth of politics in ancient Athens; Plato’s critique of democracy; the justification of political rule; the role of virtue in political life.

This advanced topics course covers neuro- and neuroscience-related topics via a combination of 1 hour lecture and 1.5-hour student discussions. The weekly topics are presented by the professor and guest lecturers. Topics may include Neuroscience Research and Treatment of Brain Disorders, Sensory Processing and Integration, The Neurobiology of Cancer, Cell-cell Interactions in Neuroimmunology, Panel Discussions, etc. 

This course examines the relationship between public opinion and international politics in democratic societies. Students explore fundamental questions about how ordinary citizens' attitudes influence foreign policy decisions, how political leaders respond to public preferences, and how media and elites shape public opinion on international issues. The course examines how people form opinions about key areas of international politics, including trade policy, immigration, military intervention, economic sanctions, international organizations, and climate change. Drawing on insights from political psychology, students learn about important concepts such as cognitive biases, framing effects, and motivated reasoning that influence how citizens think about foreign policy issues. Through careful analysis of research studies, surveys, and real-world examples, students develop both theoretical understanding and practical skills for analyzing global public opinion. The course emphasizes critical thinking about current events and policy debates, helping students become more informed citizens and consumers of political information. Students apply course concepts through case study analyses, policy briefs, and a final research project that allows them to investigate a topic of particular interest within the field of public opinion and international relations. By the end of the course, students have a solid foundation for understanding how democratic publics think about international affairs and why this matters for foreign policy outcomes.

This course reviews the basic theories of market structure with focus on market power and real-life applications. Students study a range of price and non-price strategies (such as advertising) adopted by firms and the implied market power. By the end of this course, students are able to: demonstrate an ability to analyze various types of strategic behavior in industries; evaluate and discuss firm behavior (including product differentiation) to safeguard their market power; carry out critical analysis of theoretical models and their applications to real market and present this analysis rigorously in written work; undertake independent research, involving literature review, analysis of the empirical evidence and theoretical frameworks to assess firms' behavior, their ability to collude and the role of public policy.