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This course provides knowledge and tools to effectively communicate and overcome challenges in an increasingly multicultural environment. Topics include: verbal, para-verbal, and non-verbal communication; cultural identity, values, stereotypes, and self-awareness; intercultural sensitivity; intercultural communication in various professional fields including health and education.

This course investigates various economic issues of South and North Korean economics without serious economic theory. The course covers the economic development differences between North and South Korean economies; the history of both economies after WWII,; trade between North and South Korean economy; each country’s export and import; each economy’s labor market, and each economy’s current situation. For a better understanding of Korean economic issues, the course employs economic concepts like GDP, inflation, unemployment, interest rate, and etc. 

This course introduces undergraduate students to the empirical aspects of international trade. It analyzes the causes and consequences of international trade both in developed and developing countries, with a special emphasis on the role of firms.  After an introduction on key stylized facts of international trade, the course studies the published-work in international trade: trade from the point of view of individual firms. The course discusses various topics such as trade policy, trade liberalization, inequality and Global Supply Chains. 

Recommended prerequisites: 2nd year basic microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics. Basic understanding of applied-microeconomics is desirable (not essential).

This course examines how to make decisions in business by leveraging a structured approach based on theorizing about possible future scenarios and implementing data-driven actions. The first part focuses on theoretical aspects of decision-making, while the second part focuses on data-driven analysis and interpretation of data from a business point of view. Through concrete and practical applications, students learn how to diagnose business problems, offer appropriate solutions, and generate innovative opportunities. The course focuses on the best practices that a firm can adopt to make rational decisions, namely: a structured course of action to make more rational decisions; a language to describe decisions and distinguish strategies, scenarios, and outcomes; models and statistical techniques; structured descriptive statistics; linear regression model; applications; and real cases using statistical software (Stata).

This course focuses on the fundamentals of artificial intelligence and understanding the implications of these techniques in creative processes and in society as a whole. It discusses the intersection of technology, creativity, and culture, and how AI can contribute to these areas. This course examines the potential of AI as a tool for artistic expression and creativity but also the ethical implications of AI, particularly in the context of art, culture and society.

This course helps students gain a science-based understanding of some of the most intriguing phenomena in the workplace and society. Students develop analytical skills that are crucial for both academic and industry careers. Students who are interested in understanding the Asian business environment are especially encouraged to take this course. It draws upon scientific research from various disciplines, including psychology, sociology, history, and anthropology, to critically examine topics such as creativity and innovation, emotions at work, leadership, cross-cultural differences, and management in an Asian context

This course examines kinematics and kinetics of human locomotion, bone, and soft tissue failure, macro- and micro-circulatory mechanics in various organs, and practical approaches to quantifying biomechanics. It describes how mechanics plays a role in basic physiological processes in the human body, as well as employing kinematic and kinetic principles to describe human locomotion. The course explores failure mechanisms of bone, as well as the differences between macro and microcirculatory flows. Students examine mass and fluid transport mechanisms in physiology.

This course equips students with the knowledge and skills of table-tennis so that they can demonstrate the techniques of the game, and play the game. 

IMPORTANT: Physical Activity courses do not count towards the UCEAP minimum unit requirement and are taken for pass/no pass only.

This course provides students with fundamental financial concepts and theories as well as the applications in making corporate financial decisions. Part I introduces basic concepts in finance such as financial assets, opportunity cost, PVs, FVs, and NPVs. Part II demonstrates how to make firm investment decisions based on the calculation of project PV and other criteria. Part III explains why the opportunity cost of capital (the required rate of return, or the discount rate) is determined in the security market, or, the CAPM. Part IV discusses financing decisions, mainly how to financing with debt and equity and decide the optimal capital structure. 

The course begins with a simple system called sentential or propositional logic, which despite its simplicity captures a significant range of important arguments. The course then focuses on (first-order) predicate logic, which is much more powerful and provides the logical basis for analysing a great variety of arguments and theories.