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Family has been the most important and critical context for individuals throughout their lifetime. Understanding family dynamics and relationships gains more importance as family and family relationships are closely linked to serious social issues, including low fertility rate and family violence. The main purpose of the course is to explore diverse relations observed within the family with the following detailed goals:  

1) To understand important family theories applicable to family relationships;

2) To examine dynamics of relationships within contemporary Korean families;

3) To explore how socio-cultural contexts of Korea have shaped relationships and relationship problems within families;

4) To understand how family relationships can contribute to social problems such as a decrease of fertility rate, educational issues etc. 

This course is to understand diverse family relationships and changes in Korea; to apply appropriate family theories to interpret family relationships, and to predict family relationship changes in future society.

Prerequisites: basic Family Studies courses

The course carries a three-fold purpose: to raise our readerly patience and sensitivity, to showcase aspects of western culture, and to help enhance our English language skills. A mixture of lecture and discussion will form the main classroom activity.

This course examines classic texts and major themes in phenomenology and existentialism, a tradition that shaped continental European philosophy throughout much of the 20th century. It focuses on central figures in that tradition, such as Sartre, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Husserl. Themes to be discussed include the aims and methods of phenomenology, consciousness and perception, being-in-the world, our relation to others, authenticity, freedom and embodiment. 

Educational big data analysis consolidates information to provide teachers and administrators with the big picture of trends and patterns that can be used to evaluate and streamline processes, create efficiencies, and improve the overall students’ experience. In this course, students learn:

a) learning theories and instructional design models for developing educational program;

b) the characteristics of educational data;

c) the basic programming language to operate big data analysis; 

d) some machine learning algorithms that allow computers to learn data and to predict unknown results; and,

e) the skills to embed the machine learning model into the real online educational program.

This course examines the social and ecological impacts of human activity in the context of a global fossil fuel civilization. Investigating problems of climate change, declining biodiversity, and environmental degradation, it provides an anthropologically
informed perspective on crucial issues at the intersection of ecology, sustainable development, and social activism.

The analysis of communication on social media is rapidly becoming a key-area in (socio)linguistics and discourse studies. This course introduces students to the main methods of data collection and analysis of language and discourse for a variety of social media contexts. The course combines familiarization with frameworks of analysis with practical steps on how to approach data. A variety of case-studies of social media afforded practices (e.g. sharing, tagging, Like & Follow) ranging from YouTube to Facebook and Twitter illustrate the role of a range of language and multimodal resources in presenting ourselves and relating with others online. 

The course provides engineering students with the skills to process and examine different forms of data in Python, and an understanding of how machine learning methods can use this data to solve classification and regression problems. Students learn how to implement these methods in Python using Scikit-learn. Students gain an awareness of when it is appropriate to use a particular method (if any), best practices, and the ethical issues that can occur when sourcing data and deploying machine learning in the real world.

This course provides an introduction to Scotland's long history as an independent kingdom between the 10th and the early 18th century. It examines the land and people as a way of considering broad themes in a specific and immediate setting. The central theme is Scotland's development as a European state and society through the medieval and early modern periods and the parallel processes which witnessed the development of a sense of Scottish nationhood. Issues of cultural expression and change, and of religious reform and conflict provide strands for discussion which stress the experience of this land in its wider context. The course places particular emphasis on the use of museum collections and built heritage as evidence for the unique history of this land.

Avant-garde cinema also goes by other names: underground cinema, experimental cinema, and artists’ moving image. It describes, in short, films made by artists. This course examines a wide variety of films made by American and European artists from the 1920s to the 2010s. Students engage with a diverse range of avant-garde films by engaging closely with their formal strategies and techniques. Topics include (but are not limited to): abstract film and music, Dada and surrealist film, city films, psychedelic films, the London Filmmakers’ Cooperative, women’s filmmaking, black/queer histories, found footage remakes, and experimental ethnography.

This course examines what governments do or choose not to do. It explores how public policy is formulated, implemented and evaluated, and what governance processes are typically followed. It also covers circumstances under which governments may choose to abstain from taking policy action. It approaches the study of public policy in both theory and practice and in the context of national and international politics, with both an Australian and comparative focus.