Korean

This course explores various social and cultural issues in Korea through reading and discussing Korean-language books and articles published in contemporary Korea. The course focuses on literature, essays,and academic texts on topics such as overseas Koreans; social and cultural discrimination; modern history, and the daily lives of workers in Korea. The course also aims to improve Korean language skills at the academic level. 

All course materials are in Korean.

This survey course covers the ever-changing historical characteristics of Western civilization by examining various cities from ancient Athens to modern New York. Students critically analyze the urban spaces we live in from a historical perspective. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that civilizations were born in cities. The history of cities vividly portrays how broad historical transformations were experienced in the daily lives of ordinary people. Closely paralleling social, economic, cultural, and political changes in Western civilization, cities have taken a wide variety of forms, emerging and disappearing over time. By looking at the historical dynamics involved in the development and decline of the major cities of each era, we can discern the driving forces of civilization and history.  

This is a practical course covering the theory and practice of volunteering. The course focuses on understanding the minimum content for participating in community service and focusing on the practice of social service activities. Students learn how to plan and practice volunteer community service. Volunteer confirmation and volunteer diary must be submitted. 

This phyiscal activity course covers environmental problems and accidents that may occur during camping and how to prevent them in order to camp safely. Students learn how to deal with emergencies while camping.

This course covers a basic introduction to education. Students explore what education is and how it differs from lifelong education and learning at home, school, company, and society.  Students learn what kind of discipline pedagogy is and explore it in practical theory. By understanding the essential aspects and functional roles of education, a basic view of education is established.

This physical activity course covers the fundamentals of baseball as a team sport. Students learn catching, throwing, hitting, defense strategy, and offense strategy. Fundamental skills (catching, throwing, hitting form), complex skills (catching and throwing of the hit ball, the skill for each position, hitting a pitched ball), strategy skills (hit and run, bunt and run, tag up play, double play, relay play), and actual games (played with other teams) will be covered. 

This course covers international economics in general, including international trade theory, international trade policy, international finance, and international organizations. This course introduces the economic principles of international trade of goods and capital movement in the global economy. 

Topics include Ricardian trade model, Heckscher-Ohlin trade model, Specific factors model, External economies of scale and trade, Firms in the global economy, Instruments of trade policy, Political economy of trade policy, Exchange and interest rates, Financial globalization and more. 

It is recommended that students take microeconomic theory and macroeconomic theory first before taking this course. 

This course examines the major achievements of behavioral economics focusing on theory and empirical evidence, and introduces policy design and evaluation based on insights into human behavior changes.  

Unlike traditional economics, which understands human decision-making and behavioral changes based on the assumption of human rationality and standard preferences, behavioral economics has broadened its scope to expand human decision-making models and develop new policy tools to induce behavioral changes based on the incorporation of recent studies and contributions of psychology and other fields.  

Students explore these new interpretations and learn about recent applications and newly defined understanding of human beings and their economic behavior. 

Students who wish to take this course are required to have an appropriate level of knowledge of microeconomics and economic statistics. 

This course introduces students to ethical issues, arguments, and disagreements. The course covers contemporary and historical ideas about morality and explores 1) what attitude is to be taken, 2) which factors are morally relevant, 3) how to apply philosophical reasoning. 

Students examine various ethical topics and schools of thought related to how people should act and live.  Students explore moral reasoning that philosophers have discovered (or made explicit) in the course of daily lives, how conflicts between them occur, and how we sometimes fail.   

Topics include characteristics of moral reasoning, responses to subjective or relativistic morality, basic moral theories and principles, analyses, and evaluation of arguments.