Korean

This course provides an overview of theories on international politics and security as well as specific security issues between China, South Korea, North Korea and the US. 

Computational Thinking is a process of solving problems typically with four steps—decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction, and algorithmic thinking. This course concentrates on algorithmic thinking and examines how to reformulate problems with step-by-step procedures to solve the problems. Students then practice the implementation of the procedures with Python programming language in their homework assignments. This course also covers various paradigms in designing the procedures such as divide-and-conquer, greedy methods, dynamic programming, backtracking, branch-and-bound, etc., along with fundamental data structures such as linked-lists, stacks, queues, recursion, graphs, trees, binary heaps, and hashing. 

Many Koreans have a fixed image that Greek-Roman myths (so-called classic myths) are standard of myth. This image is related to Euro-centered education in school of Korea. Many Korean students ask why we don't have a creation myth, and why have no heroes like Greek heroes. There are many kinds of myth in Korean oral and literal tradition. We have a creation myth, a flood myth, the origin myth of god, the birth myth of a nation, a shrine myth, and progenitor myth. We analyze and interpret these kinds of Korean myth in class. We also analyze myths by theories including comparative mythology, Sinocentrism, feminism and poststructuralism. Through this subject, attendees understand not only Korean myth, but also Korean culture and cultural unconsciousness deeply.

This course offers table tennis as a way of keeping physical fitness even in relatively small space. Topics cover the history, facilities and equipment, characteristics, and rules of table tennis. Students learn to play single and double matches in addition to the basic skills such as position, grip, stroke, smash, receive, and serve.

This course examines defense systems in animals, higher plants, and microorganisms. Topics include Introduction to animal immune system; disruption of healthy tissue by the immune response: cancer and its interactions with human defense system; failures of the body`s defenses: autoimmune diseases, infectious diseases, evasion and subversion of the immune system by pathogens, introduction to microbes and microbial interactions; microbe-human/animal interactions: pathogens, microbiome, probiotics, metagenome. 

This course covers some fundamental theories in economics and deals with current social, economic issues. This class is for students who are interested in economics, but find it difficult to study on their own. Through this course, students learn the basics of economics and use them to develop the power to analyze current issues in daily life. Furthermore, the knowledge learned in this class serves as a good foothold in future social advances and social life. The goals and outlines of this class are as follows. First, it analyzes economic issues based on a solid theory and provides an objective perspective on modern society. Second, students build their own economic logic based on economic theory and cultivate their ability to interpret social issues. Third, we provide the latest information on important and emerging topics such as energy and finance. As such, this class develops depth that cannot be felt in general liberal arts lectures and application skills that cannot be felt in existing economics major classes. At the end of the semester, this class helps students fully understand the economic newspaper and cultivate their skills to the extent that they can express their pros and cons on the arguments presented. This class focuses on positive economics rather than normative economics. While normative economics is a value judgment question about “What should be?”, empirical economics is a realistic analysis of “What it is?”. If you only judge value without knowledge of the real world and its principles, you will be evaluated for lack of logic and narrowness. This class provides basic empirical economic knowledge and cultivate the power to make value judgments on various social phenomena based on the students. 

Assessment: Participation(14%), Self-Introduction(1%), Assignments(35%), Final(50%)

This course provides intermediate Korean language skills associated daily and academic activities and practice for students to gain proficiency in all skill areas including Korean reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Students are expected to understand written and spoken language, formal and informal expressions, and be able to use them appropriately according to the situation.

Prerequisite: Pharmacology 1. This course focuses on the pharmacology of cardiovascular, renal, chemotherapeutic, and endocrine systems.

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

1) To make complex sentences using basic connective endings;

2) To have basic conversations in Korean including transportation, shopping, food, weather, weekly activities etc.; and,

3) To use honorific and formal style endings according to the appropriate social situation.