Korea University

This course discusses the traditional Korean dress (Hanbok) within the context of history, culture, philosophy, aesthetics, construction, and design. This course provides both theory and hands-on practice for students to fully understand and apply the elements of Korean traditional dress in building cultural contents and fashion products. The course also aims to develop aspiring global leaders by improving students’ engagement in empathetic communication, convergent thinking, and creative problem solving. 

This course introduces concepts and theories related to the international business environment and constructs strategies to compete with others and to work with people from different backgrounds. The course reviews renowned analysis tools developed to help managerial decisions for multinational firms.

To improve understanding of the theories, concepts, and analysis tools, the course features real world case studies (mostly Harvard Business cases) and team discussions. 

This course covers basic concepts of robotics while exposing students to state-of-the-art robots. The course also discusses the basic theory for robotic manipulator operation and provides opportunities to design robots through two class projects. 

This course introduces the study of human rights in political science. It discusses how the ideas of and discourses about human rights have been structured and discussed in the context of domestic and international politics.  The course also explores how actual human rights norms are acknowledged or rejected, observed, or ignored, and promoted or withdrawn at the domestic as well as international level. 

This course is organized into two parts. The first half of the course begins with an overview of the concepts and theoretical issues in human rights studies. The second half focuses on the explanations of different human rights practices across countries, looking at various topics related to human rights; it considers the conditions favorable for better human rights practices and processes that bring actual changes in human rights practices. 

By the end of the course, students are expected to have become an expert on at least one human rights issue. Small group case study research and presentations are also expected throughout this course. 

This course teaches the importance of strategic management in today’s health care organizations. Effective strategic thinking, planning, and managing strategic momentum are essential for health care leaders in coping with the dynamics of the industry. The course content is structured around the nature, functions, and major concepts of strategic management.

This course provides an overview of the field of clinical psychology. It focuses on the profession, science, and practice of clinical psychology through lectures, readings, and video clips. Lectures highlight major aspects of clinical psychology, including historical background and current controversies; professional activities of clinical psychologists, such as assessment, diagnosis, and intervention of mental illnesses, and  methods of clinical science.

Films evoke a variety of feelings and thoughts with the stories they tell and the way in which they tell those stories. How a film looks and shapes our aesthetic experience. This course provides a basic understanding of the form and content of a film and introduces its formal elements such as narrative, design, composition, camera movement and angle, editing, and the like.  It also shows us how to critically engage with these formal elements that construct our cinematic experiences. 

By looking at films more systematically and approaching them more analytically, one can arrive at a better understanding of film as an art form as well as a social, cultural, and political practice that informs, challenges, and interrogates our understanding of self, society, and the world. 

This class covers the physical mechanics and strategies for a successful game of bowling.

The objectives of this course are to: 

• Understand perfect gas law, kinetic theory and the first law of thermodynamics.

• Understand the 2nd and 3rd law of thermodynamics and phase transition.

• Understand simple mixtures and chemical reactions based on thermodynamics. 

This course studies the scientific aspects of Western (or European) music particularly focusing on its mathematical and physical aspects. The first half of the course reviews the history of European musical scales since Pythagoras, and thereby discusses how mathematics played important roles in their development. The course also covers the concept of harmony as it evolved through the intimate relations between science and music until the Renaissance. 

The second half of the course studies the physics of vibrational motions and sound waves using high-school level mathematics. Based on these, the course exposes how various musical instruments produce their characteristic sounds.  The course also provides opportunities to learn how scientific and technological advances have influenced European classical music.