English

The course surveys the fairy tale in English from the 17th to the 21st century. Students survey the first translations of fairy tales into English by the Grimms, Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen – and explore the context of the huge popularity of these tales. Students investigate their early reception and influence, including on novels and tales written in English, before moving on to 20th and 21st century rewritings. Students also spend time on film adaptations and book illustrations. Detailed consideration is given to a range of critical approaches including psychoanalytical and feminist readings, and the classification of fairy tale plots. Close readings, comparing the language and emphasis of different versions of the same story, is also central to the course.

This course regards autotheory, autoethnography, and autofiction as critical methods, modes of inquiry, and forms of representation in anthropological research. Against the background of debates around positionality, students will learn and explore how the self even when intimate, vulnerable and ambivalent can be a public archive; that it offers a rich mode for thinking through our affective embroilments in the world. We will discuss how writing can embrace but also respond to issues of belonging, experiences of class and queerness, racial or gendered difference, de/coloniality and so on. We will read works that call into question the sharp divides between academic and other forms of writing, theory and poetry, ethnography and fiction. The course is designed to be interactive and workshop-oriented. Participants will engage in short writing exercises in class and will be encouraged to draw on their own experiences of life and learning in research.

This course introduces and critically discusses an area of special interest to applied psychologists, namely, psychology as applied to health behavior. The course covers the central models and evidence bases concerning the relationship between psychological processes and health and illness. Topics include health promotion and public health; health behavior models; illness maintenance and treatment adherence; chronic illness; and health through the lifespan.

This course gives a practical introduction to system software, the interface between user applications and the operating system. The course covers system programming and operating system concepts, particularly process management, memory management, file systems and I/O, network programming, concurrent programming, and synchronization. The contents of the lecture are applied in labs and homework assignments. 

Prerequisite: Computer Architecture; Familiarity with C programming required or to be acquired through this course. 

Marketing communications are how firms inform, persuade, and remind consumers about their brands which are viewed as one part of the overall marketing mix. The goal of marketing communications is to convey meanings to the relevant consumer audience to build a strong brand value.  Designing an effective marketing communications mix involves moving the target customer from their current knowledge state on a firm’s brand values to the state desired by the firm.   

This course teaches how to design a marketing communication plan to build brand values. Furthermore, it discusses how to develop an effective marketing communication program and how to design and evaluate different communication plans to achieving the desired objectives of the firm.   

Important note:  The course covers recent advertising clips, including Korean ads that are presented in KOREAN language. There may also be guest speakers from Korean advertising agencies who may lecture in Korean only.

This course offers a study of the basic concepts of statistical multivariate analysis and its applications in the social sciences. Topics include: linear regression; binomial logistic regression; principal component analysis; cluster analysis.

Design thinking is a creative and collaborative process that focuses on understanding the problem from the customer’s perspective. This course introduces design thinking within the context of digital innovation because no disruptive innovations can be made without understanding the customer’s needs and technological change. In today’s rapidly changing business environment, organizations face many challenges, which include disruptive technologies and economic pressures, as well as keeping up with changes in customer behavior. In this sense, design thinking provides an effective tool to cultivate an innovative thinker and uncover creative business opportunities. 

Therefore, this course is designed to:

(1) Understand and analyze the multiple, complex problems of information, systems, and design that one will encounter; and,

(2) Identify opportunities for designing better interactions, decisions, and outcomes. 

More specifically, the course discusses two main themes, “design thinking” and “digital innovation practice” through a digital innovation project solving a real problem. The project will stretch one’s “design thinking” by identifying social design, innovation, information systems problems through a variety of design discussions and exercises. The course also provides practice for “digital innovation” by instructing on ways of synthesizing people-centered design opportunities and creating tangible solutions. 

This course explores television programming in relation to its production and cultural contexts, initially by comparing the vision and practice of early British television (in the so-called Golden Age of the 1950s/60s) with the present complexities of the international television industry and contemporary consumer culture. Students also consider how commissioning decisions are made, and how notions of "quality" and expectations of public service shift in an increasingly plural environment that includes non-broadcast provision of television programming. Lectures and seminars are supplemented by screenings of a range of programs that may be seen to reflect the broader contextual changes of industry, markets, and the public sphere. Students deepen their understanding of practical creative decision making at various levels of the broadcasting industry by researching broadcaster requirements and working on commercially viable group TV program proposals to be presented/submitted at the end of the course.

This course provides a broad introduction to marine mammal biology and research, including topics such as origin, evolution, taxonomy, distribution, abundance, anatomy, sensory biology, ecology, and behavior. Further, the course addresses impacts caused by pathogens, human activities, and climate change, as well as marine mammal management and conservation. Each topic is covered at a general introductory level, and selected topics are additionally presented and discussed by guest lectures with expertise in marine mammal research, conservation, and management. The course provides an overview of marine mammal biology and research practices, forming a solid basis upon which to build future study, research, and career interests in marine mammal biology and wildlife biology in general.

In this course students discuss, at a detailed molecular level, different cellular and genetic processes that are the basis of life as we know it. Students are familiarized with further knowledge in the field of cell biology, which enables them to better understand and appreciate the newest developments in this research area. Discussions revolve around general cell biological topics such as the role of membranes, membrane transport of small molecules, the nuclear architecture, the organization of the genome, regulation of transcription and translation, protein trafficking, the cell cycle and maintenance of genomic integrity, programmed cell death and senescence. The last task, dealing with cancer, serves as an integration task; knowledge of the previous topics is required to appreciate what the consequences can be when a cell goes astray and the defense mechanisms of the body fail. Prerequisites for this course include introduction to biology. This course is designed to be taken in combination with SKI2077 Lab Skills: Cell Biology. Students wishing to take the Lab Skills should concurrently enroll in or have completed this course. Students wishing to take SCI2037 Cell Biology without taking the Lab Skills may do so.