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Performance engineering is the area of computer science ensuring that computer systems (comprised of hardware as well as software) are responsive, scalable, and efficient.  The course introduces fundamental principles and techniques used in performance management of modern computer systems, either purpose-built applications or generic system (single-node as well as distributed). 

This course considers the ways in which humans grow, change and mature across various life stages. Students consider the behavioral, emotional, physical, and cognitive changes which occur during these developmental stages. This course offers students opportunities to explore core development milestones during childhood such as language, moral and gender development, and core psychological topics such as the formation of relationships and how people learn. The course also focuses on real-world application; providing opportunities to consider the environmental influences upon development and critical consideration of the extent to which theories are applicable in the educational context.

This course bridges feminist theory, legal studies, and political economy to provide a multidimensional understanding of how gender structures economic and legal systems. It complements existing offerings in political theory, law, and gender studies by integrating critical perspectives on care, welfare, and neoliberalism with emerging debates on digital capitalism and global governance. Drawing on feminist, queer, and postcolonial scholarship, it explores how gender is not merely shaped by legal and economic systems but is fundamentally constitutive of them. The syllabus is designed to be intellectually rigorous yet accessible to undergraduates from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, progressively introducing theoretical frameworks and applying them to concrete economic and policy issues. Indeed, the course investigates how care and reproductive labor sustain markets and states; how institutions of property, finance, and welfare define economic citizenship; and how global processes—including colonialism, migration, and development—reproduce gendered hierarchies. The course also addresses the gendered dynamics of digital capitalism, exploring how contemporary technological infrastructures and platform economies shape labor, value, and power. Through close reading of legal and theoretical texts, class discussions, and media materials, the course connects historical and contemporary debates on work, welfare, sexuality, and governance. It interrogates the ways legal regimes define economic citizenship, moral worth, and bodily autonomy, while also considering feminist strategies for resistance, redistribution, and transformation. By linking feminist thought to law and political economy, the course equips students with conceptual and analytical tools to critically engage with law as both a site of domination and potential social change.

This course examines some of the fundamental issues in the philosophy of creativity. Topics may include the definition of "creativity"; the relation of creativity to imagination; the nature of the creative process; the relation of creativity to knowledge and skill; computational theories of creativity; Darwinian theories of creativity; the relation of creativity to tradition; whether creativity is a kind of virtue and its relation to moral and intellectual virtues; and, whether creativity differs fundamentally between the arts and the sciences.

Network science provides powerful tools for modeling and understanding complex systems, and offers data-driven approaches to uncovering their underlying structures and dynamics. This course introduces students to fundamental statistical methods with a particular focus on their application within network science. It provides a comprehensive foundation in the principles and techniques essential for network modeling, analysis, and statistical inference in complex networks.

The course introduces students to selected areas of work psychology, including how organizations identify and select talent (personnel selection), individual differences, teamwork, motivation, leadership, stress in the workplace and career management. The course focuses on the application of psychological theory and research to help students from any discipline develop their future careers and to thrive in the modern world of work.

This course extends the discussion of molecules and cells presented earlier to the biology of a wide range of organisms and to the processes and mechanisms that affect their functions and activities. The course covers evolution, starting with key evolutionary concepts and the "Tree of Life".  In lectures and work groups, the differences and similarities between organisms and their genes and proteins and how these can be studied from an evolutionary perspective are covered.  The importance and diversity of microorganisms and the biological processes in which they function, e.g., nutrient cycling is explored. This section includes a hands-on microbiology laboratory session. The course then focuses on the higher eukaryotes, especially plants and animals. Here, the multicellularity, growth, development, and physiology of these organisms is discussed. In individual assignments, students explore the parallels and differences among important biological processes, such as development, chemical signals that direct growth and physiology, reproduction, immunity, electrical signaling, and neural regulation. Throughout the course, students work on a group project describing research on a biological process in a selected model organism, culminating in a plenary poster session during the course's final week.

This course provides an introduction to some of the main questions and ideas in development economics. It is designed as a less technical alternative to ECON 118 DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS. Broadly speaking, the course tries to answer two questions: why are some countries (and within countries, some people) poor, and what can be done about it? It covers conceptual frameworks and empirical evidence. It adopts a micro and a macro perspective and discusses the role of different actors, from households to firms to governments. The course covers a wide range of issues, from communicable diseases to gender inequality to environmental degradation.

This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of how financial technology is reshaping the landscape of wealth management. The course explores key innovations, including robo-advisors, algorithmic trading, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and the Internet of Things (IoT), and their applications in personal and corporate investing. 

What is the nature of news? What is the future of democracy? After we survey the literature on media and democracy, the class introduces journalism and communication theories and methodologies developed mainly in the United States and Europe. We apply those theories to explain the relationship between media, democracy, and political development in the era of great transformation through the 4th industrial revolution. The course theoretically and experientially addresses the roles played by the media, old media, and new media during Korea's industrialization and democratization process. The course also discusses gatekeeping and media effects on politics.  

Prerequisite: Any Writing Course, Including Journalism Introduction and Science News Writing