Korean

This course examines the composition and direction of films and the relationship/position between the director and the audience.
 

This course is designed for students with basic knowledge in Korean, and expand their vocabulary and grammar for everyday conversation. Students engage in a variety of activities in speaking, listening, writing, and reading to improve their communication skills in Korean. By the end of the course students should be able to understand the fundamental rules of sentence structure and syntax in Korean; have basic conversations in Korean on various topics including sports, transportation, food, hobbies, shopping, weather, etc.; and use various connective suffixes, sentence-ending suffixes, and particles.

This course teaches basic skills of bowling and game management. Objectives include: 1.To learn and practice how to hold a grip, to step, and to stroke 2.To understand rules and etiquette.

This course instructs on intermediate-level Korean language vocabulary, grammar and expressions in all skill areas including reading, writing, listening, and speaking. 

This course analyzes contemporary Korean politics from the four perspectives: international politics, political economy, political culture and political processes. From the perspective of international politics, it analyzes how Korean politics has been influenced by international politics surrounding the Korean peninsula. From the political economy perspective, the course introduces how Korean politics has influenced our economic development and vice versa. From the perspective of political culture, students learn to compare contemporary Korean culture with traditional political culture to find out what continuities and discontinuities there are between them. From the political process perspective. the course examines characteristics of Korean political process in comparison with other democratic countries.

This course examines the relationship between art and philosophy. Art is the fruit of practical life and the object of philosophical reflection. We gain insight into ourselves and our world through philosophical thought. The course discovers the historical origin and context of the major concepts regarding art, the background and meaning of philosophical discourses around art, and the process of formation and transfiguration of the definition of art and its critical categories.

In this course, we attempt to understand humans and their surroundings specifically the culture and the society. The concepts in this course help students to change their usual perceptions of cultural situations newly through the "reading the culture" method. Furthermore, this course aims to provide exposure to different kinds of research methods and traits of anthropology, and by applying these observations, it helps students to learn how to perceive various aspects of modern society and how the contexts of these relate to each other.