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This course is an introduction to the strategic management of modern diversified firms. It studies how the firm’s portfolio of products and its internal organization can be designed to maximize corporate performance. The focus of this course is on the strategic plan for managing a diversified firm. It studies how the firm portfolio of products and its internal organization can be designed to maximize corporate performance. It combines in a unified framework the study of two separate but complementary issues: the opportunities and challenges afforded by the firm’s external environment, and the resources and capabilities arising from the firm’s internal environment.

Many tools are available to governments, industry and citizens to help them make and implement good environmental management decisions. These include, for example, EIA, environmental risk management, environmental auditing and corporate reporting. This course focuses on the essential techniques and methods and outlines their application to resolving problems of sustainable development and investigates how these tools fit within legislative and institutional frameworks, and trends in the use of particular tools at project, local, regional, national and international scales.

This course examines the basic elements of artificial intelligence (AI) through understanding examples from various applications and hands-on experimentation using AI software tools. In addition to covering the technical aspect of AI through such topics as search and problem solving, knowledge representation, probabilistic reasoning, machine learning, computer vision and image processing, speech and language processing, and robotics, this course will also study the historical perspective, social and ethical implications, as well as potential and limitations of AI. 

This course explores the nexus between media, culture and society in the digital age. It examines the developments in digital transformation and its implications on everyday life, with emphasis on media/cultural industries, connective media, new media art and design, civil society and public cultures. It provides an understanding of how digital media and culture are being transformed by networks, convergence and algorithms, and the training to approach and make use of digital media critically, creatively and productively.

This course examines the theory, practice, and study of human spirituality. Human spirituality will be explored using a transpersonal psychological lens. The course will focus on cross-cultural conceptualizations of the Divine, spiritual enlightenment techniques, exceptional human experiences and how spiritual development can change over one’s lifespan.

Informed by experiential education approaches, students will complete a weekend backpacking trip with instructors as part of the overall course and use reflections from these experiences, in conjunction with coursework on human-nature relationships, to critically analyze and develop a personal land ethic. The field trip explores the concept of wilderness in land ethics through a direct experience of actual wilderness. The course has a focus on bi-culturally competent and globally connected understandings of the relationships between humans and nature.

The course focuses on creativity in the context of marketing communication including mobile and multi-media contexts, and the design of creative marketing content. The course is project-driven for students interested in creative marketing strategies, and content production with a particular focus on filmmaking. It has a special focus on how to use creative marketing for good to foster sustainable development, environmental conservation and social change. 

Through this course, we explore Korea’s premodern and modern belief systems according to the peninsula’s interactions with other parts of the world—particularly East Asia and the West. Topics include the rise of transnational Jesuit spirituality, catholic Christianity, and Korean Confucianism: accommodation and conflict, the rise of Protestantism in Korea and the emergence of an “ethically Confucianized Christianity”, bible women, the early modern evolution of home care, and the Seoul evangelistic center, protestant Christianity in the northern regions of Korea: Jerusalem of the east (to 1945), and exilic north Korean Christianity (1990~present). 

This course aims to familiarize students with theories, concepts, and phenomena of population aging, which impacts multiple dimensions of the society and the globe. Aging is a biological phenomenon, but also a social process for both individuals and society at large. We will discuss the economic, healthcare, intergenerational, and environmental, and cultural factors woven in these social processes and phenomena. Topics will include but not limited to aging and life course, demography, dementia, family, caregiving, community support, ageism, productive aging, and social policy. Aging is a life-long process— this course will guide students in developing an understanding of how aging shapes the lives of individuals, families, and society in a broad and holistic sense.