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The course surveys the region’s history and contemporary developments from an interdisciplinary perspective, including geography, history, culture, religion, economics and politics. It pays particular attention to how historical, cultural, religious, and philosophical traditions have intersected with contemporary political, economic, and social developments in Asia. It also examines similarities and differences in sub-regions of Asia, namely Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Northeast Asia. 

This course introduces the extent of the global agriculture and food production and its geographic location. Through a combination of lectures and exercises, the first part of the course identifies the factors that influence and adjust the global need for and production of food, as well as of the global trade with food. It then looks at the impact of different climatic and soil conditions on plant and livestock production in specific regions. In the project work, students go into detail in an individual area.

This course discusses how ethical issues of design have impacted on Korean society, which has been rapidly transformed by adoption of foreign culture, Confucianism, Korean war, economic growth, and latest popularity of K-Pop, in comparison with Western society. 

This course introduces the principles of human factors psychology and examines how they are applied to entrepreneurship. It explores how perceptual and cognitive theories can be applied to diverse systems, from personal computers to complex systems such as air-traffic control, aircraft cockpits, and nuclear power plants. It also covers theories and findings on human performance and their implications for efficient and safe designs.

This course provides foundation knowledge of the different aspects of, approaches and discursive contexts relating to the study and praxis of theater and performance. The course also introduces the various forms of classical and contemporary performance practices and their attendant modes of analyses: combining play analysis, theater history and theory. Using complementary content-centered lectures and practice laboratory, the course creates an environment where students simultaneously engage with content while investigating its relations to the creation of theater and performance. 

This course introduces students to the core ethics concepts needed to build better technology and reason about its impact on the economy, civil society, and government. In the first half of the course, students consider ethical questions raised by different steps in the data science pipeline, such as: What is data, and how can we design better (ethical?) data governance regimes? Can technology discriminate? If so, what are promising strategies for promoting fairness and mitigating algorithmic bias? Can we understand black-box AI systems and explain their decisions? Why is it morally important that we do so? In the second half of the class, students consider ethical questions raised by the use of AI systems to manage our work, political, and social lives.

This course examines the history of technology since the late 18th century. It covers both the major tenets of the development of technology during the past two centuries and major debates among historians of technology. It also covers major technologies that have influenced and changed modern society, such as the steam engine, railways or the computer, and also explores how new technologies and modern society influenced each other. The scope of the course is global, but it will particularly focus on developments in Europe, North America and East Asia. 

This course examines the structure and functioning of marine ecosystems. It explores the fundamentals of ecology (e.g. disturbance/recovery, recruitment, organism interactions with their environment, nutrient cycles, limits on productivity) in a marine setting, as well as human impacts on marine environments including fisheries and the design of ecological surveys and experiments. 

This is a small chamber choir of 12–20 members that performs music of the middle ages, renaissance and baroque. The ensemble performs both acappella and also in conjunction with other early music ensembles.