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This course explores how Korean thinkers and reformers/activists have engaged religions and ideologies in the major political, social and cultural developments and movements during premodern Korea and beyond. Through this course, the students are expected to gain a deeper understanding of how ideologies and religious ideas have informed the major debates and collective activities that have made the Korean history progress. One further aim of this class is to enhance the students’ability to write readable essays and paper based on their knowledge and insight acquired through the lectures, readings, and discussions.

This course gives an overview of the development of public and private architecture in Berlin during the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Following an introduction to the urban development and architectural history of the Modern era, the Neo-Classical period is surveyed with special reference to the works of Schinkel. This is followed by classes on architecture of the German Reich after 1871, which was characterized by both modern and conservative tendencies and the manifold activities during the time of the Weimar Republic in the 1920s such as the Housing Revolution. The architecture of the Nazi period is examined, followed by the developments in East and West Berlin after the Second World War. The course concludes with a detailed review of the city's more recent and current architectural profiles, including an analysis of the conflicts concerning the re-design of Berlin after the Cold War and the German reunification. Seven walking tours to historically significant buildings and sites are included (Unter den Linden, Gendarmenmarkt, Potsdam, Chancellory, Potsdamer Platz, Holocaust Memorial, etc.). The course offers a deeper understanding of the interdependence of Berlin's architecture and the city's social and political structures. It considers Berlin as a model for the highways and by-ways of a European capital in modern times.

This course is designed to introduce students to the wide range of opportunities and threats that have opened up with the advent of the information age. Students will come to understand holistically how cybersecurity connects to a wide range of issue areas in international relations (military, political, economic, etc.), and how the digitization of information leads to new vulnerabilities that traditional IR has never faced before. This will give students a head start when they inevitably have to deal with cyber-related issues throughout their careers.

This course focuses on two classics in English literature: OLIVER TWIST by Charles Dickens published in 1838 and JANE EYRE by Charlotte Brontë published in 1847. Both novels focus on the hero and the heroine’s struggle in a hostile world. The course is based on close analyses of extracts of both novels and weekly presentations on the context. The last four sessions closely analyze the movie adaptations (OLIVER TWIST (2005) starring Barney Clark and JANE EYRE (1996) starring Charlotte Gainsbourg).

This course explores theoretical and historical perspectives on the intersection of law, society, and politics, and fosters discussion of contemporary issues among students from different cultures and disciplines. After an introduction to comparative law and legal culture, several classical social theorists are covered (Durkheim, Marx, and Weber) and their relevance to contemporary debates about morality, (dis)obedience, conflict, and property are considered. The course examines the role of totalitarian law in Nazi and Communist Germany, and considers the difficulties such legacies pose for fostering the rule of law in post-totalitarian societies. In this context, the course also examines the need for “transitional justice”, as well as the relationship between law, the market, and economic development (e.g. Weber). Finally, the appropriate limits on the exercise of free speech and the right of association are explored. Overall, the course develops skills at using theory and history to inform debates on contemporary challenges, such as multiculturalism, punishment, (illegal) downloading/streaming/ file-sharing, and economic development. In addition to gaining substantive expertise in various socio- and politico-legal fields, students develop communicative competence through participatory exercises, and intercultural competence through discussion with other students.

This course introduces students to the history of the city in which they are studying. It highlights both the way in which the built environment and physical layout of the city has been shaped by historical processes, and how extant buildings, monuments, and objects can be used to illuminate the concerns and ambitions of those societies that have occupied the area from the early-medieval period onwards. Students analyze primary sources, textual and visual, that foster understanding of the way in which the city has developed through time. The course gives students an enhanced understanding of the cultural, political, social, and institutional history of the city and the university.