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This course aims to engage students in understanding and analyzing complex housing issues and to prepare them in identifying and formulating integrated policy options for the recognized problems. Students will explore issues and policy realms related to different forms and categories of housing provided by the public and private sectors in specific socio-economic contexts. They will be encouraged to explore sustainable policy options and design to meet the housing needs of different socio-economic groups.

This course looks into important roles that the judicial branch in the U.S. and its judges have played in the evolution of the U.S. Constitution. The course first examines theoretical considerations behind the role of the judiciary. Then it looks at how the U.S courts have performed this role, organized around three major themes: 1) the extent to which the ideology of the judges affect their decision-making; 2) the effectiveness of the courts in bringing about social change, and 3) the tensions between the judiciary and the other political branches. This course examines the aforementioned topics through cases that have divided U.S. society and politics-- such as abortion rights, same-sex marriage, gun regulation, racial and gender equality, and the President's power over immigration.
 

How does cancer evolve in a patient? This course looks at cancer from an evolutionary angle and provides another way of thinking about cancer biology.  

This course has been designed to help students prepare for the work field by teaching practice skills including a cover letter and a resume. Students conduct research on a company of choice and participate in a practice interviews for the final 1:1 interview. In this class, students will learn practical skills like how to smile, how to prepare for the professional world, what to wear for an interview, how to respond to interview questions, and what to include in an elevator pitch. There are two versions of this course; this course, UCEAP 89B (Honors)/Yonsei UCK1159, and UCEAP 89A (ADV)/Yonsei UCK1143. 

This course examines European Gothic architecture from its origins in 12th-century France to the end of the Middle Ages. It focuses on ecclesiastical architecture, and on English and French Gothic, for it is in these fields that the growth and formal development of the style is best understood. Military, civic, and domestic architecture is examined, and individual lectures are devoted to Gothic architecture in Scotland, Germany, the Low Countries, Spain, Italy, and Central Europe. 

This course examines the central concerns of Plato’s philosophy. It focuses on Plato’s early and middle dialogues in which the enigmatic character of Socrates is central. It addresses Plato’s teachings on the role of philosophy in the life of the individual, the relation between knowledge and virtue, and his contribution to questions about the nature of love and desire. 

This course provides students with an understanding of factors that determine how industries are organized. It presents various theoretical models, whether and how these are supported by empirical evidence, and stylized facts. Concepts and tools employed in microeconomic theory and game theory are used to analyze how firms behave within industries and how industries are structured.

 What is culture? What is technology? How are the two related? What is our relationship with each or both? How do we live in a culture surrounded by technological objects, artifacts, structures, and institutions? How does technology change culture, and vice versa?

This course is designed to provide students with the theoretical tools to begin asking questions for themselves and seeking better answers. The course examines key themes in technology studies that involve the social, political, economic, and cultural contexts in which technological artifacts, services, and platforms are produced, distributed, networked, and used. 

Through software-assisted learning, you will be able to intuitively understand fundamental mathematical concepts such as linear algebra, and delve into advanced topics like the PageRank algorithm, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), function fitting, numerical integration, solution of ordinary differential equations, and machine learning methods.

This course examines how the Silk Roads linked and transformed regions and societies through trade, diplomacy, religion, and conquest. It explores how societies interacted across vast distances; the emergence and interaction of the religious traditions of Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Islam, and Christianity; the journeys of people, objects, and ideas; and the roles of nomadic conquest and imperialist competition.