Korean

This course cultivates social innovation capacity by approaching K-content as a single bowl of bibimbap. Just as bibimbap blends diverse ingredients while preserving their distinct flavors, this course places classical and contemporary Korean literature, web novels and webtoons, dramas and games into one bowl and reads them together. K-content is treated not merely as a collection of stories but as an experimental apparatus for thinking about and testing future societies. 

In this process, students examine the tensions and collisions produced as generation and class, gender and region, and platform cultures intertwine, and to treat this hybridity not as proof of “Koreanness,” but as a starting point for social innovation. Through the course, students discover social problems that have not yet been named and learn to nurture them as both citizens and creators who can articulate those problems through new narrative forms. 

By observing specific idol, drama, game, or webtoon fandoms, recording their voluntary care practices, informal rules, and conflict mediation methods, and translating these organizational forms into prototypes for small-scale civic projects or public campaigns, students approach fandom not as a mere consumer group but as a hybrid governance model capable of experimenting with social innovation 

Furthermore, this course does not stop at reading K-content as an object of cultural consumption. It operates as an “imagination workshop” that uses SF imagination and speculative social design to experimentally envision future societies. Students analyze narrative worlds while also engaging in creative practices that design possible social institutions, technologies, and forms of community.  

Topics include What does Science Fiction imagine, Worldbuilding and reading worlds, Speculative imagination, Korean SF and K-content, Transitioning social problems into SF, K-webtoons and platform SF, K-movies and future societies, K-pop and narrative universes. 

In modern society, where uncertainty is increasing, the importance and necessity of intimate relationships—such as romantic partnerships, marriage, and family—are being increasingly emphasized. In particular, phenomena related to love, marriage, and family are changing more rapidly than ever before. A broad examination and understanding of these intimate relationships not only help individuals respond flexibly to such changes, but also contribute to the formation of healthy values regarding love, marriage, and family. Ultimately, this fosters individual happiness and promotes the well-being of families and society as a whole.

This course provides an introductory overview of probability theory, presented in a mathematically rigorous manner. Starting from the definitions of events, random variables, independence, and expectation, we also cover some basic applications such as weak convergence, the law of large numbers, characteristic functions, the central limit theorem, etc. 

Prerequisites: Elementary level of calculus (required), analysis (required), and linear algebra (optional). 

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.