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In this course, students learn about the management of international enterprises and which cross-border challenges that need to be taken into account when firms consider internationalizing. The course also covers the impact of different formal economic, political, and legal institutions, as well as more informal institutions, such as culture, religion, and language that must all be considered by an internationalizing enterprise. The course also identifies the implications concerning business ethics and sustainability.

This course explores the profound social, political, and cultural transformations brought about by digital technologies. It introduces key concepts and theories of the digital society while situating them in concrete case studies. Particular attention is given to Japan, which provides distinctive examples of platform cultures, governance models, and digital transformations that often diverge from the dominant narratives of the United States, China, and Europe. The course emphasizes both the global dynamics of digital media and the need to understand local contexts.
 

This course offers a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the politics, economics, and foreign policy that constitute international politics of the Korean Peninsula. It explores how Korea dealt with its first encounters with imperialism and tackled the complex task of modernization, to understand how these prewar historical legacies continue to affect the domestic politics, society and international relations of South Korea today. 

Topics include ethnic nationalism in Korea, imperial Japan, territorial disputes in Asia, the Comfort Women issue, South Korea’s industrialization, the LGBTQ movement in Korea, feminist and anti-feminist movement in Korea, North Korea and its nuclear weapons, to name a few. 

Prerequisites: A course in political science or in Asian Studies 

This course introduces the essential software engineering body of knowledge, including software project management, software requirements and specifications, software design, and software testing and maintenance.

Labor markets connect individuals to the global economy, and earnings from labor are key elements of household income. This course uses theory and data to understand labor market responses to trade and globalization and to track consequences for individual and household well-being. It studies labor mobility and migration; the market for skills, and decisions on the school-to-work transition, with its empirical and policy focus on developing Asia.

By the end of the course, the class should be familiar with canonical models of economic growth, trade, labor markets and education, utilizing these models together with data to analyze the effects of real-world events such as resource export booms, global market shocks and domestic policies on employment, earnings, and educational decisions. The class is expected to interpret these for policy purposes and connect these analyses to broader narratives of economic development.

The course tells the story of life on earth from its first emergence, around 4 billion years ago until the present day, focusing on how complex life evolved from simple structures to produce the rich diversity of organisms found in ecosystems: from the smallest microbes to blue whales and giant redwoods. Students learn about the range of plants and animals and about the key evolutionary innovations that led to their emergence. Students also learn that organisms should not be considered in isolation but that they interact in ways that affect each other's form and function and how they have come to shape the physical world we live in.

This course provides an outline of developments in children’s literature in England and parts of Europe through the study of some essential, central texts as well as recent books for children. The uses of fantasy and the educational aspects of books for children is discussed, along with notions of childhood and the nature of children. Through close reading of set texts students engage in critical techniques applicable to most literature, for the best texts for children satisfy sensitive adult readers too.

This course covers in some detail theories and research on issues currently topical in Organizational Psychology from job motivation, leadership and stress to the future of work. The course provides an overview of the theorizing and research in organizational psychology and familiarizes students with the literature on aspects of behavior in the work-place.

There are two limits to our sustainable economic growth: one is the limited capacity of the natural environment to receive waste and the other is the limited quantity of non-renewable energy and resources. This course provides an overview of the status quo and policy solution to those limits. The first part of the course discusses the data and policy examples of environmental problems. The latter part discusses the reason why these environmental problems occur as well as how to solve these problems in terms of economics. 

Required Prerequisites: Basic Microeconomics and Basic Macroeconomics.

This course examines the use of psychological assessment methods and psychotherapeutic approaches in treating individuals with psychological difficulties. It explores major theoretical frameworks, practical techniques, and key issues in clinical practice, providing insight into the application of psychological theory to assessment and intervention.