Korean

This is an advanced Korean language course. Students can communicate fluently using Korean grammar and expressions in various contexts; understand Korean way of thinking through various types of Korean materials containing various sources of Korean society and culture. This course is to achieve academic Korean language ability. Upon completion of the courses, students should be able to take university courses taught in Korean. 

The course instructs students on how to form good sentences using basic vocabulary, expression, and grammar in situations they will encounter in their daily lives.

This course analyzes the political economy of East Asia in the context of economic globalization and international political dynamics. It also focuses on globalization, economic crises, and other topics in political economy that revolves around the issue of power conflict between hegemonic countries like US and China and its effect on East Asian countries. The first part of this course focuses on major theories to study political economy in Asia, and the second part addresses various important issues in contemporary East Asia. 

Through an integrated curriculum of vocabulary, grammar, speaking, listening, writing, and reading, this course enables students to: 

1) Communicate in Korean in formal discourse;

2) Converse in Korean at an intermediate level on a wide range of topics including environment, problems and solutions; asking and rejecting; thanking, apologizing, etc; and,

3) Understand metaphorical expressions, idioms, sayings in Korean.

This course teaches foreign students the following low-mid level skills for Korean: ability to comprehend university-level lectures and class presentations; ability to make a note for lectures; ability to make an answer for essay questions; and, ability to conduct low-mid level everyday conversation. Students learn a variety of colloquial expressions commonly used in university-level lectures, useful expressions for lecture notes, and skills for making an answer for essay questions. By using audiovisual materials, students can improve their ability to conduct everyday conversation in Korean.

Through an integrated curriculum of vocabulary, grammar, speaking, listening, writing, and reading, this course enables students to: 

1)To communicate in Korean at various discourse circumstances; 

2)To converse in Korean at an intermediate level on a wide range of topics such as school life, public institutions, giving appropriate recommendations, etc.; and,

3)To write using appropriate endings.

This course examines in detail the basic principles of international taxation. It tries to identify the core issues in developing international tax rules, and study the different approaches countries have taken in dealing with these issues. Topics covered include basic theory of international taxation, jurisdiction for taxation, methods of international double tax relief, basic operation of double tax treaties, and international issues in tax administration. 

This course is for beginners with no previous knowledge of Korean. It gives absolute beginners a basic, working knowledge of spoken and written Korean. The lectures are taught in larger groups (of approximately 30 students), while separate oral tutorials entail smaller groups (of around 15 students). In the tutorials, students practice speaking and writing tutorials. Students learn the Korean script (Hangul) and acquire a vocabulary of 600/700 Korean words. They also learn how to comprehend and compose short pages in Korean. Topics covered throughout the course include daily routines, making plans, means of transportation, and shopping.

This course is designed to provide an introduction to political science for students who have an interest in political science. It is desirable for students to have civic culture in democratic society. The purpose of the course is to introduce the basic contents and logic of political science (and social science). Students learn theories and practices related to various political phenomena and discuss salient issues on state and democracy. Topics include definition of political science, methodology and logics of social science (correlation and causalit, problems of subjective and objective measurement), state and society, institution and culture, fairness and efficiency, idealism and realism, parliamentarism, presidentialism, semi-presidentialism, elections and political parties, political communications, theories of democracy, public choices, international relations, and perspectives on social changes.

Assessment: Midterm Essay (30%), Final Essay (60%), Attendance and class participation (10%)